The title of the book makes it obvious for anyone what’s in store for them in the book. At some point of time or the other, we all would have made a list of something in our lives… Grocery list, Books to read list, Things to do list, Steps in an algo while coding, List of aspects to be checked in unit testing/system testing, List of steps in a process (that is outsourced to a call center where standardization is the key) , List of items to be back packed, etc.

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us - Hamerton

I had never heard of Caldecott Honor & Medal books until yesterday when I came to know that such books contain a lot of ideas for teaching stuff to kids. Here is what the wiki says : The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published that year.

Well, there have been enough books about Central Limit Theorem bashings, Gaussian bashings , as applied to finance, thanks to the books like Blackswan and its ilk. I had put off reading this book for quite sometime for I was expecting the same message – average is really an average! :), there are better ways to dealing with data than merely looking at the average. So, reluctantly I quick read this book a few days back.

Here is a nice way to look at error measures … Link : What Is the Error if the Probability of Rain Is .5 and It Rains?