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Algorithms for Decision Making
- derbOac 4y agoI wish there was a colophon or something with information about everything that was used do produce the book and website from a graphics and design perspective.
- quixoticaxolotl 4y agoI recognize the LaTeX theme, it's the Tufte-style book theme: https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/tufte https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/tufte Everything else is probably just LaTeX magic
- mirekrusin 4y ago"We have also benefited from the various open-source packages on which this textbook depends (see appendix G). The typesetting of the code was done with the help of pythontex, which is maintained by Geoffrey Poore. The typeface used for the algorithms is JuliaMono (github.com/cormullion/juliamono). The plotting was handled by pgfplots, which is maintained by Christian Feuersänger" ?
- derbOac 4y agoThanks — I looked for something like that but couldn't find it. I'm not sure why. I was also thinking of the website as well.
- mirekrusin 4y agoWebsite says it in the footer?
- Bromeo 4y agoHere's the github repo used to create books in the same style: https://github.com/sisl/tufte_algorithms_book https://github.com/sisl/tufte_algorithms_book Note that this repo is from the same author as the book.
- alfiedotwtf 4y agoNote: the underline to the links is almost invisible... I viewed source to find the hrefs
- terrortrain 4y agoI guess I'm the foolish one, but I thought the title implied that the book was about algorithms you can use to make decisions, not decision making algorithms. If the former sounds interesting, here is a similar book I read a long time ago: https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Decisions/dp/1627790365 https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Deci...
- visarga 4y agoYes, it's about reinforcement learning, same as AlphaGo.
- Swizec 4y agoAlgorithms To Live By is an amazing book. My favorite chapter was the one about sorting where the author comes to the same conclusion I did many years ago – do not sort your socks. It's a waste of time. Bucket them by type instead.
- pessimizer 4y agoYou're saying that you thought it was a self-help/self-improvement book?
- J_cst 4y agoSo...there are at least two foolish.
- layer8 4y agoIt would be nice to have a reflowable non-PDF version.
- solarkraft 4y agoPlease! PDFs are such an awful way of transferring information. What a joke to have to read on an LCD device or buy an enormously large and expensive E-Reader. Makes actual printing way more attractive than it should be.
- iainctduncan 4y agoThis is very timely for my grad school work in computational music and algorithmic composition. Does anyone more experienced in this field know if this is an appropriate book for a newb, or if not, what a better intro would be? thanks!
- nequo 4y agoHave you heard about Euterpea? There is a textbook that covers it: https://www.euterpea.com/haskell-school-of-music/ https://www.euterpea.com/haskell-school-of-music/
- Bromeo 4y agoPrevious discussions: Algorithms for Decision Making(http://algorithmsbook.com/) 693 points|Dowwie|1 year ago|85 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25716581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25716581 Algorithms for Decision Making [pdf](https://algorithmsbook.com/files/dm.pdf) 498 points|mindcrime|3 months ago|50 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31123683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31123683
- dang 4y agoSince the cutoff for dupes is a year or so (assuming a story has had significant attention), we've marked the current submission a dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- infogulch 4y agoThis post has a discussion with further resources: Decision Making Under Uncertainty with POMDPs.jl | 87 points | 9 months ago | 9 comments https://juliaacademy.com/p/decision-making-under-uncertainty-with-pomdps-jl https://juliaacademy.com/p/decision-making-under-uncertainty... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28593156 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28593156
- dunefox 4y agoI find Julia code quite beautiful for books in this domain. It's readable, elegant, concise, expressive, and efficient at the same time. A great language for science.