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A comment on Street-Fighting Math: Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving (2010) [pdf].

Re:Street-Fighting Math: Educated Guessing and Opportunistic... by pps43 on Monday May 15, 2017 @08:16PM (#14346377)
The other book [1] is even better. Unfortunately, there is no free lunch. Knowing when it's ok to cut corners is more important than how to cut corners, and there does not seem to be an easy way to learn that.

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-insight-science-and-engin...

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Re:Street-Fighting Math: Educated Guessing and Opportunistic... by mavroprovato on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @05:34AM (#14348396)
You can download it from here: https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-6-011-the-art-of-insight-i...
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