Posts tagged books
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19 Aug, '24
Suggested books
༄> I was asking about introductory Forest Mensuration and Forest Growth books and got: -
13 Aug, '24
You realise that New Zealand is small when…
I was chatting with a colleague (Salvador Gezan) in April about teaching, learning and books, and he suggested “have a… -
19 Apr, '24
Potential material for teaching
༄> Statistics for ecologists -
7 Apr, '23
I used to read
I used to read. A lot. All sorts of books, popular ones and some obscure ones; they were mostly novels,… -
4 Jan, '18
Italo Calvino’s humanity
皿 This year requires an extra dose of new perspective, to make the most of time, to bring the best of people. -
20 Oct, '17
Influences: Cronopios and Famas
Books have accompanied me for all my life, or at least for as long as I can remember. However, my… -
16 Oct, '17
This time is Calvino
This happens relatively frequently: I am talking with someone else that doesn’t know me well and, at some point of… -
6 Mar, '15
To know one’s own state
皿 To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s… -
9 Feb, '15
I write differently
皿 I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way… -
26 Nov, '14
Paying for a job well done
At the moment I am writing R code that involves a lot of simulation for a project. This time I… -
16 Apr, '13
Flotsam 11: mostly on books
༄> ‘No estaba muerto, andaba the parranda’† as the song says. Although rather than partying it mostly has been reading, taking… -
17 Dec, '12
Matrix Algebra Useful for Statistics
I was having a conversation with an acquaintance about courses that were particularly useful in our work. My forestry degree… -
30 May, '12
Review: “Forest Analytics with R: an introduction”
Forestry is the province of variability. From a spatial point of view this variability ranges from within-tree variation (e.g. modeling… -
8 Mar, '12
The weirdness of ebooks
A couple of weeks ago I got a Sony Reader PRS-T1 through the use of Flybuys (a loyalty card scheme… -
10 Jan, '12
The world owes you nothing
皿 Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain -
4 Jan, '12
Doing Bayesian Data Analysis now in JAGS
Around Christmas time I presented my first impressions of Kruschke’s Doing Bayesian Data Analysis. This is a very nice book… -
22 Dec, '11
The introduction of a new system
皿 It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to… -
22 Dec, '11
First impressions of Doing Bayesian Data Analysis
About a month ago I was discussing the approach that I would like to see in introductory Bayesian statistics books.… -
25 Nov, '11
Solomon saith
皿 Solomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge… -
24 Nov, '11
If you are writing a book on Bayesian statistics
This post is somewhat marginal to R in that there are several statistical systems that could be used to tackle… -
23 Nov, '11
No one would ever conceive
皿 I believe that no one who is familiar, either with mathematical advances in other fields, or with the range of… -
8 Nov, '11
On “true” models
皿 Before starting the description of the probability distributions, we want to impose on the reader the essential feature that a… -
7 Apr, '10
Preamble to the instructions on how to wind a watch
皿 Think of this: when they present you with a watch, they are gifting you with a tiny flowering hell, a… -
3 Apr, '10
The library of babel by Jorge Luis Borges
By this art you may contemplate the variations of the 23 letters… The Anatomy of Melancholy, part 2, sect. II, mem. IV