If I'd understood better what I was doing I could easily have doubled or tripled those numbers. But it wasn't about making money -- it was a hobby/curiosity project that was about developing my understanding of a subject I find fascinating. The money has been a nice bonus.
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Some additional calibration data: an editor at a major academic press tells me great sales figures for a similar technical textbook in a "hot" field are typically about 5,000-10,000 a year. So open access has a factor 200x or more here.
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That said, deep learning is super hot, and I expect figures may be even higher there for the absolute best sellers. Even so, I've no doubt the benefit of being open access is ~100x.
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I've always liked this (or rather ever since you wrote it). I have a very similar optimistic attitude to the narrower question of whether there is a simple principle underlying our ability to find proofs of theorems. I am, perhaps irrationally, convinced that there is.
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Thanks! I share that optimism. Proofs of theorems seems a substantial step up in difficulty from chess & Go & similar pursuits, but much more tightly scoped (in some sense) than the world as a whole.
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