[FRIAM] observability and randomness
∄ uǝlƃ
gepropella at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 18:56:21 EDT 2020
Ha! "Present company excluded" obviously. 8^D I used to be careful to apply that caveat when I went around willy-nilly insulting whole swaths of people. Marcus is right; I am getting old and going down denying it all the way.
Do you think you were *lucky* to get such constructive feedback? Or did you, perhaps, recommend people to review it, knowing they would be knowledgeable and interested?
On 6/29/20 3:40 PM, David Eric Smith wrote:
> Hey!
>
>> On Jun 30, 2020, at 7:38 AM, ∄ uǝlƃ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Ha! Nah. Books are for people who can't handle peer review
>
> We got peer reviewed, by five people. One of the reviews was 35 pages long. The editor said he had never received anything like it. Parts of it were so useful we used them to rewrite the preface.
>
>
>> ... or ... what's the aphorism? I would have written a shorter letter if I'd had the time? ... something like that. Books are for people who can't think clear enough to keep the verbiage down.
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