Books
This page lists the books mentioned on my blog. Each book is followed by links to the posts that mention it.
See also the books tag on the blog.
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Entrepreneurship
Computing
Math
Statistics
Eclectic
Entrepreneurship
Blog posts:
Plane crashes, software crashes, and business crashes
Blog posts:
Gerald Weinberg's law of twins
Blog posts:
Innovation V
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Peter Drucker and abandoning projects
Inside Steve Job's brain
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Innovation II
Innovation III
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Obscuring complexity
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Peter Drucker and abandoning projects
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Index of tail weights in statistics
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Three quotes on originality
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Being busy
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Top three iPod troubleshooting tips
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How to avoid being outsourced or open sourced
Computing
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Interview with Dan Bricklin
Would you rather have a chauffeur or a Ferrari?
Two kinds of software challenges
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The holy grail of CSS
Side benefits of accessibility
Migrating from HTML to XHTML
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Beautiful Testing
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Writes large correct programs
Experienced programmers and lines of code
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Upper and lower bounds on binomial coefficients
The cost of breaking things apart and putting them back together
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Michael Feathers on refactoring
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In praise of tedious proofs
The excitement of not knowing what you're doing
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Rotating programmers
Automated software builds
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Book review: Expert Python Programming
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Book review: Expert Python Programming
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Book review: Expert Python Programming
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Conceptual integrity
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PowerShell output redirection: Unicode or ASCII?
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Programming language subsets
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Literate programming and statistics
Complementary validation
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Sample code sites
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Architects versus engineers
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Programmers aren't reading programming books
Free C# book
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Tips for learning regular expressions
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Interview with Green Baret debugger
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Customizing the PowerShell command prompt II
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Regular expressions in C++ TR1
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Tricky code
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Why Unicode is subtle
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Feasibility studies
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MIT replaces Scheme with Python
Math
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Fast exponentiation
Comparing three methods of computing standard deviation
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Four uncommon but handy math notations
Finite differences
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Three books on inequalities
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Three books on inequalities
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Sums of uniform random values
Old math books
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Academic articles
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Academic articles
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Networks and power laws
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Random inequalities III: numerical results
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Simple legacy
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Computing the inverse of the normal CDF
Stand-alone error function erf(x)
Optical illusion, mathematical illusion
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Constructive proof of the Chinese Remainder Theorem
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Random inequalities IV: Cauchy distributions
Thick tails
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Flaw in Riemann hypothesis proof
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Diagramming modes of convergence
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Fibonacci methods at work
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Old math books
Means and inequalities
Three books on inequalities
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Old math books
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Fractional derivatives
Statistics
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Origin of "statistically significant"
What is a confidence interval?
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The cult of significance testing
Five criticisms of significance testing
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Early evidence-based medicine
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What is a confidence interval?
Rolling dice for normal samples
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Probability distribution relationships
Finding the shortest interval with given mass
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Plausible reasoning
How
loud is the evidence?
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Index of tail weights in statistics
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Good opening lines
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Four pillars of Bayesian statistics
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Quantifying the error in the central limit theorem
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Random inequalities IV: Cauchy distributions
Black swan talk
Why heights are not normally distributed
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Four characterizations of the normal distribution
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Tukey tallying
How to linearize data for regression
The Likelihood Principle
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Musicians, drunks, and Oliver Cromwell
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The law of small numbers
Eclectic
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Don't forget the salt
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Originality
Stephen Covey and Pope Leo X
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Small advantages show up in the extremes
Twitter is not micro-blogging
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Wine and politics
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Was Einstein an atheist?
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Xylophones and zebras part II: learning Spanish
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Was Einstein an atheist?
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Wendell Berry on publish-or-perish
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Team moon
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Robert's rules of order and Galveston flooding
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Houston deco
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C-state and F-state
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What to make flexible
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How to avoid being outsourced or open sourced
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Selective use of technology
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Aging with grace
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Battling sharks
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Things that work best when you don't notice them
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Broken windows theory and programming
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C. S. Lewis on reading old books
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Three reasons expert predictions are often wrong
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The Medici Effect
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Privacy
