Mariano A. Nicolini

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add > As an exercise, try to figure out why each of these events are linked to each subset. right after this part: > A = “The red wall was...

When talking about the probability of the entire sample space, my suggestion was > You can think of this as the probability that something will happen. As a quick example,...

when talking about independent events, the part > $P(R|L) = P(R) \text{ either } P(L|R) = P(L)$ is a bit confusing. I don't understand why "either" was used here

an explanation of logical operators ('and', 'or', etc) and their relationship with sets should be nice for consistency in the chapter

typo when explaining Poisson distribution parameter lambda

> When we work with continuous variables it is pointless to talk about the probability of a single x value. I would change to > it is pointless to talk...

here is a suggestion of a shorter version, but with the quote from Jon Erickson's book, which I think is important >As the name of the book states, this is...

with the changes suggested, > As the name of the book states, this is a book for Hackers. The term can have opposite connotations, depending on who is pronouncing it...

following your suggestions, I changed the paragraph to >One of the first things to note about this book is that it is not an academic textbook. The authors of this...

I changed the two sentences so that they look more connected, >Although this book isn't intended to have obscure, overly technical or academic definitions that may put the reader off,...