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Problem solving, complex systems, the pandemic, gravity, AI, machine learning and a 17th-century novel.

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David Parsons

Infinity Within His Grasp

A 17th-century historical novel

January 2026 · 178 pages · Paperback

David's first novel. Historical fiction set in the 1600s, it follows a young man from Boston who crosses paths with figures including John Wallis and Galileo.

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David Parsons

AI: Thinking Without Understanding

A conversation with ChatGPT

April 2025 · 276 pages · Paperback

An unedited conversation between David and ChatGPT about the strengths and weaknesses of large language models.

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David Parsons

Gravity

How to weigh the sun and other gravity challenges

2019 · 175 pages · Paperback

A dialogue between David and his granddaughters, Nora Parsons and Emerson Chura-Parsons, in the style of Galileo. Starting from two facts, Earth's distance from the sun and the length of a year, they find the sun's mass with nothing beyond middle-school algebra, deriving the gravitational constant and Earth's mass along the way.

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David Parsons

COVID-19

Anatomy of a pandemic

December 2021 · Kindle

“Like a bulldog”, he was relentless, analyzing the data and publishing his analyses each week, from the beginning to the very end. So much for “leaving it to the experts!” The book explores why the pandemic took such a twisting path, from how infection and immunity concentrated in a small share of people to what a one-month delay in early US vaccine distribution would have cost.

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David Parsons

Eight Principles of Effective Problem Solving

Strategies for a world that will demand innovation

November 2012 · Paperback and Kindle

Eight principles distilled from a lifetime of successes and failures in computer simulation, project management, manufacturing, architecture, student pranks and soccer coaching, with more than forty strategies for getting past the barriers to solving problems. One case comes from SDI's own history: Plant Builder, the modeling kit we built, overdeveloped and put on the shelf.

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David Parsons

Educating Problem Solvers

Learning the principles of effective problem solving

October 2012 · 162 pages · Kindle

David takes on the failure of traditional education to foster effective problem solving and challenges educators at all levels to embrace problem-based learning, with guidelines for parents preparing their children to be effective problem solvers.

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Mathias Brandewinder

Machine Learning Projects for .NET Developers

Hands-on machine learning projects in C# and F# (Apress, 2015)

June 2015 · 319 pages · Paperback · Apress

Build smarter .NET applications that learn from data, using simple algorithms on practical problems. Projects include an optical character recognition system built from scratch, a spam filter and a game that learns from experience, coded in Visual Studio with the machine learning logic in F#.

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