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It started good, but I’ve lost interest.

Good, math is still hard

“This was annoying. And annoyance, as we know, is one of the great spurs to technical progress.”

The great reveal that coders aren’t smart, just lazy 🤣

“Math, like meditation, puts you in direct contact with the universe, which is bigger than you, was here before you, and will be here after you.”

Easy to follow, written as one continious «article» with no start and stop at the beginning and end of a chapter, something I enjoy

Ever tired. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

only 8 pages in and i'm already flabbergasted

I AM A WOMAN IN STEM

Dividing one number by another is more computation; figuring out what you should divide by what is mathematics

Nonlinear thinking means which way you should go depends on where you already are.

Mathematics the bane of my existence. I don't like to read a paragraph multiple times to understand it -mostly due to my own insecurities- but so far this book taught my so much about our everyday interactions that I have no problem reading a sentence 10 times to understand a concept.

Our Lord dispenses more wisdom from the fount

Dank af as usual. Apparently Hamming codes were based on the geometry of Fano planes? Swag

Stats ☠️☠️☠️

Jordan continues to be dank. Love it

Why is the author so dank? This is Literature.

honestly, thought i would hate this book but i just spent a whole hour fully involved in it and i could easily spend the rest of the day reading it, but i must do my actual hw

WHY IS THIS TAKING SO LONG TO READ

“The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.” -Bill Klem

I like it but, I am taking a v long time to finish this; caution ⚠️ his explanations are so long, and I do occasionally get lost because it seems like it is taking forever to get to the point. Sometimes I feel like he is trying to embed a point repetitively (annoying really). It is not the type of book I'd recommend to all

Read the first part of the book and this is where I am stopping for a while. I will pick it up from here after some time

Completed the first chapter
Read about the Lafler’s curve and how the relationship between tax rate and revenue is non linear
Learned about non linear thinking “where you have to go depends on where you are “

Boring and repetitive, possibly not good choice as audiobook…mostly anecdotal

I have just finished reading the introduction and so far it seems that the book will provide an interesting insight into how maths can be used in everyday life.

The introduction is solid and manages to engage the reader into further reading of the book

Some of the jokes were a hit 🤭

Had to return to library. At start of chapter 9.

Speaking about the probability of there being a God: [Y]ou can’t deny that there are aspects of the natural world -I’m thinking of pandas here- that seem more likely to have resulted from grudging bureaucratic compromise than from the mind of an all-knowing deity with total creative control.

Always read the footnotes! “More details on these studies can be found in the ‘Journal of stuff I totally made up in order to illustrate my point.’”

Listening to this one on audible. Really good.

Excellent!