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| Book: | Programming Collective Intelligence | |
| Subject: | Information is great, but too many errors | |
| Date: | 2008-08-06 20:50:52 | |
| From: | Amit Lamba | |
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Rating:
 
I've just purchased the book and I don't doubt that the book is full of amazing information on the topic of Collective Intelligence. But, without even getting past the Preface, I've already discovered 2 errors in actual code examples! From there I decided to check the errata list here on O'reilly, and albeit a lot of the errors are unconfirmed, but it seems alarmingly high. Errata is to be expected, but with a book that deals so heavily in mathematical formulae and code snippets, it's a pain to have to cross check everything. There should have been a better job on proof reading this before it was pushed out to the masses. I have the August 2007 version of the book, so if there is a 03/2008 printing of this book, I'd much rather get that version if the errata have been fixed in the newer printing. If someone can confirm this, I'd gladly revise my review of the book, if that's even possible. Outside of these errors, this book would easily be a 5 star book. |
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