Alex_Altair comments on Book Review: Naïve Set Theory (MIRI course list) - Less Wrong

31 Post author: So8res 30 September 2013 04:09PM

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Comment author: cousin_it 30 September 2013 06:31:35PM *  5 points [-]

I noticed that the course list doesn't cover several topics that are popular on LW. Some suggestions:

Game theory - Fudenberg and Tirole

K-complexity - Li and Vitanyi

Causality - Pearl

And maybe something on cryptography, but I don't know enough about it to recommend a good book.

Comment author: Louie 03 October 2013 07:52:49PM 0 points [-]

Do you think Causality is a superior recommendation to Probabilistic Graphical Models?

Comment author: Alex_Altair 03 October 2013 08:16:54PM 1 point [-]

The material covered in Causality is more like a subset of that in PGM. PGM is like an encyclopedia, and Causality is a comprehensive introduction to one application of PGMs.

Comment author: Louie 05 October 2013 08:36:42AM 1 point [-]

Thanks. That was what I thought, but I haven't read Causality yet.