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And following up on this, "Socrateses" is probably wrong. 😅 

In Modern Greek, the plural would be Socratides (Σωκράτηδες; the primary stress is on a) or Socrates (Σωκράτες; way less commonly used).  With a 2-min search I found this ref to make the case for Socratides.

[And since I happen to have an Ancient Greek language teacher in the next room, by asking her, she gave the following reference]

In Ancient Greek, it would be Σωκράται. If you look at section "133. α" here you can find its conjugation in the example. This would be translated to either... (read more)

3gjm
Huh, interesting. I still think "Socrateses" is preferable in English -- generally foreign imports into English don't pluralize according to source-language patterns other than the best-known ones; e.g., if someone writes "octopodes" you can be pretty sure they are doing it for humour, and if someone writes "censūs" you can be pretty sure you've somehow dropped into an alternate universe. Still, I hadn't realised that there was any standard Greek plural for "Socrates" (it's not obvious that proper nouns necessarily have plural forms, after all) and in particular hadn't realised that "Socratai" would be the canonical thing. I don't think I agree that "Socrati" is a good anglicization of "Σωκράται" if you are going to use a Greek plural, though. Is there any other case where a Greek plural ending -ai turns into an English version in -i?

Are there any updates about when the books would be available on Amazon UK or even better Amazon DE / FR to make it easier for people based in EU countries to get them?

Thanks for making the books, I'm really looking forward to get them! :-D
 

For a 'Bayesian Probability 101", I'm currently following Richard McElreath's Statistical Rethinking course. 

I still haven't finished it (only on Chapter 4), but so far it's all that I wanted it to be: 

It's funny cause this was recommended to me by ... (read more)

The link from this reply now posts to a steroids page. From the DOI in the link, I found the article here:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.01576.x

(for anyone interested and still looking at these comments 13y later ;-) )

I mistakenly signed twice. Will there be a duplicate check, or could you simply remove my second entry?

[I forgot I had NoScript enabled, so after the first attempt nothing seemed to have happened. That's why I disabled it, which refreshed the site, and submitted again. Then I saw that first time worked already, so now my name appears twice.]

5Bird Concept
We can remove duplicates. Thanks for highlighting. 

The epilogue reminded me of a funny quote I've heard in a conversation about Computer Security and Encryption:

"If brute force isn't working, you're not using enough"