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I'm writing a book just for you :) It's called "Practical Math: A Tour of Mathematics in Production Software" (https://pmfpbook.org https://pmfpbook.org points

by j2kun 4y ago

I'm writing a book just for you :) It's called "Practical Math: A Tour of Mathematics in Production Software" (https://pmfpbook.org https://pmfpbook.org points to an announcement and mailing list) The idea is to give a large swath of examples of math used to solve real problems, and collectively to give a good answer to your question. And to have the examples be appreciable by the average programmer, in the sense that they could reasonably expect to adapt the underlying ideas in their own work.

iKlsR 4y ago
> It will be much easier than pimbook to sample and read casually. It could be a bathroom reader for the stalls of software firms. Thank you, I have a copy and it went over my head a couple times so I guess I wasn't exactly the target. Also not sure if this fits within the scope but something like this would be great for those not already familiar with it, helped me a lot - https://github.com/Jam3/math-as-code https://github.com/Jam3/math-as-code
wanderingmind 4y ago
The pimbook itself looks fantastic. As an aside, any recommendations on the inverse, a programming introduction for mathematicians.
- optbuild 4y ago
  I don't know about mathematicians, but everyone should read How to Design Programs book when they are starting out. Fantastic way of forming great mental models.
newpseudonymn 4y ago
I can't join your mailing list, as my Email-Address looks "fake or invalid".
grph123dot 4y ago
Perhaps the concepts of vector embedding and the attention mechanism could be explained. Also you could use some prompts for LLM to generate new content for your intended audience, mostly to classify them, so that your reader could copy your prompt and ask for further clarification. Example: In chapter 5 here is a prompt that resembles the content of this chapter, to solve some of the exercises or clarify some points, your prompt would be along the lines ... Just some ideas.

by j2kun 4y ago

iKlsR 4y ago

> It will be much easier than pimbook to sample and read casually. It could be a bathroom reader for the stalls of software firms. Thank you, I have a copy and it went over my head a couple times so I guess I wasn't exactly the target. Also not sure if this fits within the scope but something like this would be great for those not already familiar with it, helped me a lot - https://github.com/Jam3/math-as-code https://github.com/Jam3/math-as-code

wanderingmind 4y ago

The pimbook itself looks fantastic. As an aside, any recommendations on the inverse, a programming introduction for mathematicians.

optbuild 4y ago
I don't know about mathematicians, but everyone should read How to Design Programs book when they are starting out. Fantastic way of forming great mental models.

newpseudonymn 4y ago

I can't join your mailing list, as my Email-Address looks "fake or invalid".

grph123dot 4y ago

Perhaps the concepts of vector embedding and the attention mechanism could be explained. Also you could use some prompts for LLM to generate new content for your intended audience, mostly to classify them, so that your reader could copy your prompt and ask for further clarification. Example: In chapter 5 here is a prompt that resembles the content of this chapter, to solve some of the exercises or clarify some points, your prompt would be along the lines ... Just some ideas.