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Re:Lisp Hackers: Peter Seibel by calibraxis on Monday July 02, 2012 @03:34AM (#4187777)
I actually have the same feeling as the previous poster. I'd buy/kickstart his stats book in a heartbeat. I don't think Lisp users would be "better" at teaching stats in some objective sense, but many of them (not all) have a certain turn of mind which looks like "clarity" through my subjective lens.

It is probably like Michael Spivak writing _Physics for Mathematicians_, because he didn't understand physics books written by physics people. PDF where he explains his troubles with elementary physics: (http://www.math.uga.edu/~shifrin/Spivak_physics.pdf)

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Re:Lisp Hackers: Peter Seibel by mjw on Monday July 02, 2012 @04:40AM (#4187968)
Combining the above with the original comment, check out Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicm/

Physics explained by lispers! using consistent notation!

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Re:Lisp Hackers: Peter Seibel by apgwoz on Monday July 02, 2012 @09:19AM (#4188715)
Woah! Does this exist in PDF form somewhere?

In fact it does: http://www.fisica.net/mecanicaclassica/struture_and_interpre...

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Re:Lisp Hackers: Peter Seibel by mahmud on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @03:10AM (#4192916)
I also loved the Berkeley book, Structure and Interpretation of Signals and Systems. Went down well with a 5 week daily diet of "Thinking in Systems: A Primer".
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