Algorithms for Decision Making

by mxschumacher • 4 years ago

183 26 4 years ago

derbOac2• 4 years ago

I 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.

AkshatM• 4 years ago

I recognize the LaTeX theme, it's the Tufte-style book theme: https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/tufte

Everything else is probably just LaTeX magic

mirekrusin2• 4 years 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"

derbOac2• 4 years ago

Thanks — 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.

Bromeo2• 4 years ago

Here's the github repo used to create books in the same style: https://github.com/sisl/tufte_algorithms_book

Note that this repo is from the same author as the book.

alfiedotwtf• 4 years ago

Note: the underline to the links is almost invisible... I viewed source to find the hrefs

terrortrain• 4 years ago

I 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-Deci...

visarga• 4 years ago

Yes, it's about reinforcement learning, same as AlphaGo.

Swizec2• 4 years ago

Algorithms 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.

Sakos• 4 years ago

I have a bucket for socks of the type sock. Am I doing it right?

divan• 4 years ago

Second this. Fascinating book.

pessimizer• 4 years ago

You're saying that you thought it was a self-help/self-improvement book?

J_cst• 4 years ago

So...there are at least two foolish.

czbond• 4 years ago

Thanks for the reco - this book looks very promising. <Added via Audible>

A personal deficit I have noticed in myself is .... not being able to commit to making a decision, because I think probabilistically - that I can see the other probabilities but have been recently using some shortcuts. I need more.

58x14• 4 years ago

I’ve been working to improve this very issue myself; the compulsion to seek further options before committing to a decision has diminishing returns.

danielvaughn• 4 years ago

This site is also useful in that regard: https://untools.co/

layer8• 4 years ago

It would be nice to have a reflowable non-PDF version.

solarkraft• 4 years ago

Please! 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• 4 years ago

This 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• 4 years ago

Have you heard about Euterpea? There is a textbook that covers it:

https://www.euterpea.com/haskell-school-of-music/

Bromeo2• 4 years ago

Previous discussions:

  Algorithms for Decision Making(http://algorithmsbook.com/)  
  693 points|Dowwie|1 year ago|85 comments

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

infogulch• 4 years ago

This 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...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28593156

dang• 4 years ago

Since 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

dunefox• 4 years ago

I 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.

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