Feedback - PDF 1.0.0 (Imposter's Handbook, Season 2 v1.0)

[joe-ratzer]

Thanks for writing this book, I really enjoyed it. Here's some feedback:

1. Page 11 - remove the spurious "v" after - "question the nature of God."
2. Page 21 - a word is missing after the word "if" - "The first two cases are easy: if is true, then the expression is true."
3. Page 22 - replace the lower case "i" in "indeed" with an uppercase "I" - "indeed, satisfies this condition."
4. Page 22 - a word is missing after the comma - "indeed, satisfies this condition."
5. Page 26 - add "in" between the words "else" and "terms" - "This is called Base 10 numbering, since ten is the number of individual digits, or radix, that we express everything else terms of."
6. Page 32 - the following sentence - "In the simplistic, semi-perfect world of Newtonian physics..." - implies that Newtonian physics is inadequate for ballistics. I am not sure that's true.
7. Page 36 - replace the 1st "the" with "that" - "but we could add yet another gear the moves the sheet of paper"
8. Page 38 - add the missing word "in" after the word "pain" - "reassembling it for every calculation was a pain the butt"
9. Page 42 - a word is missing before the question mark - "What logical statement do you know of that will result in ?"
10. Page 43 - the first row in the AND table is wrong - it should be zero.
11. Page 47 - I think at this stage of the book changing "C" to "carry" - in the diagram - would be good
12. Page 53 - it would be nice if the truth table order matched the function call order in the code above
13. Page 89 - use a capital "i" for isthmus - "crossing the isthmus of Panama"
14. Page 89 - I had to re-read the sentence on the discussion on railroads, so I suggest adding two dashes to enclose "through "Indian territory... Sierra Nevada".
15. Page 105 - remove the second "are" - "There are roughly are over 20 theorems"
16. Page 107 - Shannon's attribution to Tukey in the Wikipedia quote was just mentioned in the previous paragraph so it is probably unnecessary.
17. Page 110 - add a full stop before "Percentages" - "Percentages are just a simple way of thinking about a fraction between 0 and 1..."
18. Page 117 - "3.32" is missing in the following sentence - "The entropy of a message with a single number between 0 and 9 would be ,"
19. Page 117 - "entropy of 6.64 bits" is missing in the following sentence - "a message with two digits would have an ."
20. Page 118 - once the issue above is sorted it would be repeated in the next sentence. So, further changes would be required there.
21. Page 118 - remove the 1st "a" - "We'll talk about that more in a just a second."
22. Page 120 - "268,435,456" is missing from the following sentence - "We're interested in knowing the number of possibilities for the entire password, which is ."
23. Page 140 - should it be "named after" rather than "named for"? - "Huffman’s coding algorithm, named for the information theorist David Huffman"
24. Page 149 - add the word "is" after the word "this" - "Once again, this more of a historical “good to know” kind of thing."
25. Page 149 - replace "hopes" with "in the hope" - "Repeat the message in hopes the whole thing makes it across at some point"
26. Page 202 - remove the "s" from "Americans" - "The Americans teams were Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman"
27. Page 202 - remove the reference to "The Code Book" as it was already referenced above (page 195) - "if you want to know any more detail on this story, have a look at The Code Book by Simon Singh."
28. Page 207 - add a full stop after "Index of coincidence" - "...would enable an attack using a statistical procedure such as Friedman's Index of coincidence"
29. Page 242 - add the word "be" after the word "only" - "Thankfully the answer is simple: there must only one way to derive the factors for N"
30. Page 270 - add the word "it" after the word "convey" - "This number was huge, and I have no idea how to convey using English"
31. Page 281 - add the word "is" after the word "this" - "But this how you learn, after all."
32. Page 286 - add the character "s" after the word "look" - "It’s critical that this process look random"
33. Page 290 - change the word "to" to "so" - "...email text and frequency scanned to the service can optimize ads..."
34. Page 291 - change "here" to "hear" - "you’ll often here the following themes"
35. Page 317 - add the word "a" or "the" after the word "via" - "who can only communicate asynchronously via messenger."
36. Page 320 - add the word "but" after the word "person" - "This has led to speculation that Satoshi is not a real person, a group of people, or a time traveler."
37. Page 322 - replace the 2nd "the" with "then" - "If a node can demonstrate through some type of calculation that it is a loyal part of the system, the its contribution can be safely accepted."
38. Page 323 - add the word "point" after the word "last" - "That last is especially important"
39. Page 326 - replace the word "than" with the word "that" - "blockchain is a resilient, distributed transactional ledger than contains an entire history"
40. Page 335 - there is no start of the brackets - "I will anger the blockchain people with my oversimplifications)"
41. Page 335 - add the word "I" after the word "what" - "so I did what normally do"
42. Page 336 - replace the word "with" with "while" - "were your friends with growing up."
43. Page 337 - the following sentence implies the relationship between the dollar and gold really stopped after 2007 - "This means the value of the dollar is unhinged from the price of gold entirely...". However, that really happened much earlier, starting in 1971.
44. Page 341 - add a unit of time or distance - "I live about outside of Portland"
45. Page 345 - remove the second word "Steve" - "Steve Steve Beauregard"