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Category Archives: Reviews
Game Analysis Index
This post links to this blog’s posts discussing game design, balance, economics and related topics, as well as any strategy posts. It does not contain new content. Much of the blog is relevant to gaming, but these are the explicitly … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Analysis, Games Other Than Magic, Magic: The Gathering, Reference, Reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged Games, Links, Magic: The Gathering
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Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction
Epistemic Status: Minus One Million Points Shortness Status: Long (this is a proposed new norm I want to try out, in the sense of ‘apologies for writing a long letter, I did not have enough time to write a shorter … Continue reading
Posted in Death by Metrics, Economic Analysis, Personal Experience, Reviews
Tagged Analysis, Economics, Machine Learning, Personal Experience, Review
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Book Review: Eisenhorn Trilogy
Spoiler Status: Very mild spoilers before the fold, full spoilers after the fold I read the Eisenhorn Trilogy on the recommendation of my friend Raymond Arnold, who bought me the first book as a birthday present, presenting it as worth … Continue reading
The AI Paper with The Best Title Ever
Epistemic Status: Confident I understood the paper, but no promises on its implications The title is “Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent.” If anyone can top that title I am eager to hear about it. The idea … Continue reading
Book Review: How Asia Works by Joe Studwell
How Asia Works has a theory about how development economics works: You must follow The Way. To the extent that you follow The Way, your country will prosper. To the extent that you fail to follow The Way, your country … Continue reading