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objective Bayesian inference now in paperback
Posted in Books, Statistics with tags advertising, amazon associates, Bayesian foundations, Bayesian inference, Book, Dongchu Sun, JASA, Jim Berger, José Miguel Bernardo, noninformative priors, objective Bayes, paperback, publication, reference priors, technology on May 1, 2026 by xi'an
top 10 genre books of the 21st Century [so far]
Posted in Books with tags amazon associates, book list, COVID-19, fantasy, lockdown, Reactor, science fiction, Series, Tor on December 4, 2024 by xi'an
On Reactor, the on-line magazine run by the publishing company Tor, the frequent contributor Jo Walton was asked to put forward her ten favourite by genre. Here are some lists that X my reading habits, if almost none my favourites: to wit,
for series
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- Daniel Abraham — The Long Price Quartet (2006-9)
- Ben Aaronovich — Rivers of London (2011-ongoing) [agreed!]
- Lois McMaster Bujold —World of the Five Gods (2001-ongoing)
- Shelley Parker-Chan — Radiant Emperor (2021-23)
- Kate Elliott — The Sun Chronicles (2020-ongoing)
- N.K. Jemisin — The Broken Earth (2015-17) [missing in geophysics!]
- David Mitchell — The Thousand Autumns Series (2010-ongoing)
- Ada Palmer — Terra Ignota (2016-2021)
- Patrick Rothfuss — The Kingkiller Chronicle (2005-ongoing) [agreed!]
- Walter Jon Williams — Dread Empire’s Fall (2002-22)
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for fantasy
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- Susanna Clarke — Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004) [of course, top of the charts!]
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- John M. Ford — Aspects (2022)
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- Ann Leckie — The Raven Tower (2019)
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- Nisi Shawl — Everfair (2016)
and for science-fiction
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- Sue Burke — Semiosis (2018)
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- Cixin Liu— The Three-Body Problem (2014) [I could hardly complete the first volume…]
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- Susan Palwick — Shelter (2007)
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- Geoff Ryman — Air (2004)
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- Robert Charles Wilson — Spin (2005)
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missing, imho, e.g., Neal Stephenson’s Anathem, K.J. Parker’s Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City, Martha Wells’ Murderbot series, Jaworski’s Gagner la Guerre, Anne Leckie’s Ancillary Justice series, Joe Abercrombie’s The Heroes, and some others. But since lists are personal, and always tantalizing to me, here is a potential reading list.
Active Statistics: Stories, Games, Problems, and Hands-on Demonstrations [it’s out now!]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Statistics, University life with tags Aki Vehtari, amazon associates, Andrew Gelman, Cambridge University Press, causal inference, CU, cup, introductory textbooks, regression, teaching statistics, visualization on March 13, 2024 by xi'an
Hugo[red] Awards 2023
Posted in Books, Kids, Travel with tags Adrian Tchaikovsky, amazon associates, Ben Aaronovitch, book reviews, censorship, China, Communist Party of China, dictature, fantasy, Hugo Awards, science fiction, worldcon on February 23, 2024 by xi'an
Here are the 2023 awards [connected to my read & to-read lists]. As the votes were made by participants to the 2023 Chengdu Worldcon, Chengdu, China, censorship later came to light, regarding authors critical of the Chinese government, like Kuang, Zhao, and Gaiman, who did not make it to the shortlist…
Best Novel
- Nettle & Bone, by T. Kingfisher (Tor Books) [to read]
- The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi (Tor Books) [to read]
- Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree (Tor Books)
- Nona the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom) [not read yet, as the amazonly supported book sits at a friend’s place in the US!]
- The Spare Man, by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor Books)
Best Novella
- Where the Drowned Girls Go, by Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom) [to read]
- Ogres, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris) [to read]
- What Moves the Dead, by T. Kingfisher (Tor Nightfire) [to read]
Best Series
- Children of Time Series, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Pan Macmillan/Orbit) [1/3 read]
- The Locked Tomb, by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com) [2/3 read]
- Rivers of London, by Ben Aaronovitch (Orion) [read]
- The Scholomance, by Naomi Novik (Del Rey) [2/3 read]
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
- Everything Everywhere All at Once, screenplay by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Sheinert (IAC Films / Gozie AGBO) [watched]
oops there it goes again
Posted in Kids, pictures, Statistics, University life with tags amazon associates, Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, Cramer-Rao lower bound, customer service, drawing tablet, drivers, Huion, teaching, undergraduates on February 16, 2024 by xi'an
