The Book of Why
Judea Pearl
16 people recommended it in 9 threads, 2018–2022.
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What people on Hacker News said
Judea Pearl is one of the fathers of modern AI, he asks tough questions and tryies to guide the revolution to the next level, where AI system will be able to reason about the result and answer to the question - why.
Read this if you're interested in how statistical analysis can be used to truly establish cause/effect relationships.
Anyone working with data should probably read this book. The fact that Pearl brought in a professional math/science writer as co-author is a huge boost to the main ideas accessibility and make for a nice albeit deep summer read.
If you’re into probability, statistics and/or ML, Judea Pearl‘s The Book Of Why enlighted me kind of.
A very down to earth book about causality and related concepts.
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