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Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by meanmrmustard92 »

shurtler wrote: post #116
meanmrmustard92 wrote: post #54

In econometrics / empirical social science: - Mostly Harmless Econometrics by Joshua Angrist and Jorn Steffan Piscke - Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences by Guido Imbens and Donald Rubin - Data Analysis using Regression and Multilevel Models by Andrew Gelman and Jennifer Hill

You will benefit from reading Pearl/Glymour/Jewell: Causal Inference in Statistics. A Primer (The contrast to Imbens and Rubin is crazy)

Thanks; been meaning to. I've not seen a good exposition of what benefit the DAG way of doing Causal Inference has over the Potential Outcomes Framework. Morgan and Winship (another good textbook) tries, but I didn't really buy it. I guess I have to hear it from the horse's mouth.

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randcraw wrote: post #8

Image Processing: "Digital Image Processing", Gonzalez and Woods. Comprehensive coverage of principles, well written, practical w/ useful examples yet well grounded in signal processing and engineering principles. Complemented nicely by a version of the book rich in examples solved in MATLAB (co-author Steve Eddins).

If you want a smaller and cheaper book on computer vision, I recommend Concise Computer Vision (Klette, Springer).

It's remarkably complete for its size. The level of detail is just enough that you can refresh or understand a topic, without drowning you in equations. The referencing could be better, but the main papers are called out.

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purplezooey wrote: post #256
libertine wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is it. And you're completly right - self proclaimed marketers reduce marketing to tools of one of the areas of marketing like you said : Promotion/Communication . SEO, PPC, Content Marketing, Influencer Marketing, Social Media Marketing... the list goes on... are just tools. They serve part of 1/4 of what marketing is broadly speaking. Now I'm not saying those shouldn't be areas of expertise - they should! But a…

Let's not forget a keen ability to subtly lie and confuse people. Very important in marketing.

I believe that's bound to the people not to the practice.

If there's a need for a brand to lie then there's something wrong or missing - and that's not sustainable in the long run.

Plus, you shouldn't expose your brands to liability - for example that's why all big brands have their advertising communication evaluated by legal departments. It will not go live if legal doesn't approve it.

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Post by __exit__ »

deepaksurti wrote: post #186

Computer Graphics: [1a, 1b, 1c] Computer Graphics, Principles and Practice Series [2] Physically Based Rendering [3] Real Time Rendering --- [1a] https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Graphics-Principles-James-Fo... [1b] https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice... [1c] https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Physically-Based-Rendering-Theory-Imp... [3]…

I acquired Pbrt in order to learn the basics of computer graphics rendering in a practical way. However, I struggle even with the most basic things (math mostly).

Do you happen to know of any resource that provides a good mathematical foundation directed at computer graphics?

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