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cqb
@cqb
Finished "the art of doing science and engineering" recently. Hamming stuffed a lot of good insights in this book, but hidden behind anecdotes and not explicitly stated. Thinking about writing a book review to distill what I got out of reading it
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criss
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Oh no. Is it relying heavily on anecdotes to make a point?
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cqb
@cqb
Yeah it's not my favourite style. But I do think that having the reader actually have to do the work to figure out the principles being expressed is great for learning. It just would have been nice to know that's the thing I should be doing from the start instead of about a third of the way through.
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criss
@cerbivore
I made a pledge to never buy anecdotal books again. Of course I bought it without checking… I guess I will try reading it now…
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cqb
@cqb
Fair enough. I've made a similar pledge to never buy books written by journalists again haha. I do think there is value in them in this book, but in most cases they don't really do it for me
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