Street-Fighting Math: Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving (2010) [pdf]
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#2There was this estimation technique one of the Sixty Symbols professors talked about, where you do all of the calculations, but you only keep one significant digit. It's something you can do quickly in your head while conversing with someone, but tells you pretty reliably if something is feasible.
Re: Street-Fighting Math: Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving (2010) [pdf]
#3More math books and discussion:
Re: Street-Fighting Math: Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving (2010) [pdf]
#4Sanjoy is rad. This should be a must-read for engineering school.
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#5I feel this was a response to this recent submission as perhaps an example of a math text that is less traditional? (Could be interesting to look at the discussion and see how this text holds up?)
Why do many math books have so much detail and so little enlightenment? (2010)
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#6I thought this was going to about Street Fighter[1] machine learning
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#7This is also available as an online course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-098-street-fighti...
Re: Street-Fighting Math: Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving (2010) [pdf]
#8There was this estimation technique one of the Sixty Symbols professors talked about, where you do all of the calculations, but you only keep one significant digit. It's something you can do quickly in your head while conversing with someone, but tells you pretty reliably if something is feasible.
When the first digit becomes 1 keep two digits. A small effort for much higher precision.
(Something to do with Benford's Law? Maybe.)
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#9I've heard good reviews. Have had this downloaded on my mobile for a few years now ... should get around to reading it "soon" -_-
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#10This is also available as an online course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-098-street-fighti...
And a self-paced course through edX: