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43 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 August 2009 01:10AM

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Comment author: timtyler 20 August 2009 07:13:39AM -1 points [-]

That's "Causality: models, reasoning, and inference By Judea Pearl"...? "Not mathy"? It's jammed full of dense maths! It has integration symbols, summation symbols, logic, probability, theorems and lemmas coming out of its ears! Obviously, Pearl is showing off to impress his peers ;-)

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 August 2009 09:17:12PM 1 point [-]

Obviously, Pearl is showing off to impress his peers ;-)

Probably a little, but it does help you find mistakes where they exist.

(Okay, that was showing off.)