The book serves a nice intro to Bayes theory for an absolute newbie. There is minimal math in the book. Whatever little math that’s mentioned, is accompanied by figures and text so that a newbie to this subject “gets” the basic philosophy of Bayesian inference. The book is a short one spanning 150 odd pages that can be read in a couple of hours. The introductory chapter of the book comprises few examples that repeat the key idea of Bayes.

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Link : A brief summary of the book Takeaway “Write your code as though you are releasing it as a package” - This kind of thinking forces one to standardize directory structure, abandon adhoc scripts and instead code well thought out functions, and finally leverage the devtools functionality to write efficient, extensible and shareable code.

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