now that the book has been published, has anyone read it? Comments?
On Friday, December 5, 2014 at 12:31:13 AM UTC+1, Wilfred Hughes wrote: > > I received an email today about being a technical reviewer for a book on > Julia! > > We're currently developing a book titled *Mastering Julia* aiming at >> building statistical models with linear regressions and analysis of >> variance (ANOVA) and will be working on probability, probability >> distributions, and random variables covering data structures such as >> matrices, lists, factors, and data frames. This book is targeted at >> Intermediate >> level developer in statistical languages and one who will be having >> understanding of Core elements and applications. >> >> Would you be interested in acting as reviewer for this book? >> > Now, I enjoy Julia, and I'm happy to help promote the language, but I > don't think I'm particularly qualified to be a technical reviewer of a book > on Julia programming. I found this thread on julia-dev: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/julia-dev/HrdpknFgdfk/SAVMyyacT_sJ > where Packt contacted a large number of folks seeking an author. > > Has anyone else received something like this? In principle, I'm all in > favour of producing promotional or teaching materials, but I'm surprised it > lead to me being contacted. >
