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Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
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Page 11
Below 4th Paragraph |
Hello Professor Downey:
I purchased the Kindle version of your book. After installing the Anaconda python distribution, I tried to run one of your notebooks on the local machine. The notebook declared that the operation "wget" was unknown and could not run the very first exercise in the book.
A brief Google search suggests I can download and install wget software that should solve this. However, I'd like to know your solution in case there are incompatibilities. I'm running a Windows 10 machine.
Finally, can you tell me if I'm right in believing that this book was meant to be read on Jupyter Notebooks, whether on Collab or on local machine, so that code can be run in real-time? My first assumption was that I would type the commands as written in my Kindle book into a Jupyter console. That doesn't seem to be the case, but I'd like confirmation and clarification if available.
Thank you,
Mike
Note from the Author or Editor:
Hi Mike,
The notebooks are mostly meant to run on Colab, which provides wget. I think Windows is the only system that doesn't. But I've modified the notebooks to use pure Python to download files, rather than wget. If you download them again, it should work.
Regards,
Allen |
Mike Shirley |
Jul 19, 2021 |
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Page 24
3rd para |
In the Monty Hall Problem section, there is a small typo of the following sentence:
"There are two doors left, they reason, so the chance that the car is behind Door A is 50%. But that is wrong".
=> "Door A" should be "Door 1".
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O'Reilly Media
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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