1/4
— Judea Pearl (@yudapearl) July 8, 2018
10 days ago, when I decided to go on Twitter,
I did not know what I am getting into. Today,
with over 5,000 followers, I feel a sense of
obligation to give you a progress report, and to
reflect on this experience. This will probably take
4 Tweets - stay tuned #bookofwhy
2/4
— Judea Pearl (@yudapearl) July 8, 2018
First, I find the intellectual exercise of
compacting pages of technical analysis into
3-4 sentences challenging, educational and empowering.
Second, the genuine quest for understanding I
see among you gives me the hope that my primary goal
of writing the Book is realizable.
3/4
— Judea Pearl (@yudapearl) July 8, 2018
My goal was and is: the democratization of causal
inference . By that I mean empowering
students and researchers to understand causal inference
on their own, without waiting for professors or
journal editors to catch up.
Toward that end, I will continue to bring up ...
4/4
— Judea Pearl (@yudapearl) July 8, 2018
for discussion topics that have been ignored or suppressed by
mainstream literature and, simultaneously,
try to be as flexible, honest and open-minded
as I can in responding to your questions and comments.
Unortunately, I can only Tweet once or twice
a day. #bookofwhy
