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At 29 USD for 38 pages, Basketry[0] doesn't look like a particularly useful buy. Also, from the description: "…editorial decisions to include or exclude events

• greenyoda 14y ago
  The index for this book is also useless. It seems to index every word in the text, whether it's significant or not; for example, "September". Also the index has entries for "Nova" and "Scotia", but not "Nova Scotia" (which is presumably where these two words came from). I don't think that real authors would face any significant competition from this guy.
  • rhizome 14y ago
    It also would seem to cast a lie to the claim that they are generated "algorithmically."
    • dbaupp 14y ago
      The context is unclear: what would cast a lie to that claim?
      • rhizome 14y ago
        "Random high-level items" is not much of an algo.
        • dbaupp 14y ago
          So you weren't talking about the index containing every word in the book? Or, if you were, isn't that be exactly what the most naive indexing algorithm would do?
        • __david__ 14y ago
          Even bubble sort is an algorithm...
          • rhizome 14y ago
            Bubble sort does something.
            • __david__ 14y ago
              So does indexing "Random high-level items". It's an algorithm, just not a particularly good one, which was my point.
        • oh_sigh 14y ago
          I don't think you understand what an algorithm is.