{"product_id":"through-the-geeks-lens-marc-magrans-de-abril-9798282048094","title":"Through the Geek's Lens: An Autobiographical Exploration of Mental Models and Trade-offs","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat do a crowded airport in Beijing, parenting, the risk-return frontier, and micromanaging bosses have in common? Everything-if you look at the world through the right lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Through the Geek's Lens, you'll embark on a personal, humorous, and yet thought-provoking journey through some fundamental trade-offs and models from mathematics, psychology, economics, and engineering. Through the eyes of a textbook lover, Through the Geek's Lens opens unexplored mental horizons and connects the dots between accumulated scientific knowledge and our private and professional lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book introduces and explains complex subjects, their factual basis, and their limitations by contextualizing them within a specific time and place-a moment in the author's personal life. Each section offers a small dose of actionable insight. Among the many topics explored are the trade-off between freedom and security, the diminishing returns faced by particle accelerators and large machine-learning models, and the No Free Lunch Theorem, which explains why a self-confident explorer like the author can get lost in an unknown forest. It applies paraconsistent logic to interpret Eastern philosophies and uses unbiased statistical sampling to show how to see your loved ones. It discusses the Law of Small Numbers and why it's just as important as the Law of Large Numbers, the determination of Service Level Agreements using basic probability inequalities, and the Shannon-Hartley Theorem to decide when to shout (or not) at your kids. And that's just the beginning-there's much more to discover when you look your day to day through a geek's lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marc Magrans de Abril\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798282048094\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.62d","brand":"Marc Magrans de Abril","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48217705677055,"sku":"9798282048094","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_148183cc-8136-43da-a1f2-b02f132e2095.jpg?v=1771998905","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/through-the-geeks-lens-marc-magrans-de-abril-9798282048094","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}