<story><title>A Concrete Introduction to Probability (2018)</title><url>https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/Probability.ipynb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>khazhoux</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m always amazed at how Peter Norvig continues to create the kind of content that a top grad student would do, even as his career and rank in the industry has skyrocketed.&lt;p&gt;Back in university and grad school I would write tutorials and post them online (and still get thanks from random people many many years later).  I would explore random interesting subjects and dive deep.  I would constantly publish code and demos, etc.  As my career grew, one of one these started to fall off.  I look at my peers and it&amp;#x27;s the same story: they were all vibrant hot-shots in their early-mid 20s, and now are just weighed down by the teams and projects they manage.&lt;p&gt;Peter is an inspiration.  I will ponder this...</text></comment>
<story><title>A Concrete Introduction to Probability (2018)</title><url>https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/Probability.ipynb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>at_a_remove</author><text>I got reasonably far in stats -- up to a single grad level course.&lt;p&gt;My biggest problem with the teaching of math (and I can weigh in on this a bit because I spent over a decade as a private tutor of math) is that math is often not introduced in a concrete manner, as well as in a way such that its utility is obvious.  These are two sides of the same coin.&lt;p&gt;You can see this problem in &lt;i&gt;most&lt;/i&gt; Wikipedia math pages.  I took more math than most physics majors and I find quite a lot of what I stumble across either baffling or of unknown utility.  Set theory is a great instance of this.  I rarely see multiple examples listed as it is explained, nor does anyone bother to tell me what it is &lt;i&gt;for&lt;/i&gt;, other than to do more set theory.&lt;p&gt;Stats at least has the benefit of having to stick closer to applicability, I think.</text></comment>