<story><title>Statistics for Hackers</title><url>https://speakerdeck.com/jakevdp/statistics-for-hackers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>analognoise</author><text>Can we please stop putting &amp;quot;hack&amp;quot; on EVERYTHING?&lt;p&gt;It isn&amp;#x27;t a hack to present mathematics in an understandable way - it&amp;#x27;s a pedagogical improvement for introductory works, not a &amp;quot;hack&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>texthompson</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think that the title or the content claimed that &amp;quot;presenting mathematics in an understandable way&amp;quot; is a hack. &amp;quot;Statistics for Hackers&amp;quot; sounds to me like hackers are the intended audience.&lt;p&gt;This method of presentation makes sense to me. Most statistics classes that I&amp;#x27;ve experienced were taught from the point of view of abstract math. That&amp;#x27;s certainly one way to do it, but I knew a lot of people for whom that wasn&amp;#x27;t the optimal presentation strategy. Now that computing is cheap and there is a large audience of people with programming knowledge, I think that teaching statistics through examples of simulation, bootstrapping shuffling and cross validation is a great way to learn things.</text></comment>
<story><title>Statistics for Hackers</title><url>https://speakerdeck.com/jakevdp/statistics-for-hackers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>analognoise</author><text>Can we please stop putting &amp;quot;hack&amp;quot; on EVERYTHING?&lt;p&gt;It isn&amp;#x27;t a hack to present mathematics in an understandable way - it&amp;#x27;s a pedagogical improvement for introductory works, not a &amp;quot;hack&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anewhnaccount</author><text>The hacking here refers to the approach of &amp;quot;just compute it&amp;quot; rather than using an analytical approach.</text></comment>