mrflip
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11 years ago Great point. I like it best to have them crop up throughout. One of the things I've wrestled with is how to work in the philosophical/editorial passages, eg when to stop tuning; or why you should only use a crude algorithm, never a fancy one, to fix up data for use by another algorithm. In the later chapters perhaps C&E take those over.
It makes sense to abandon Chimp and Elephant once you progress into the book; however, you drop them too coldly. As you revise, make a note to the reader in the last chapter in which you will be using C & E and let the reader know that, while they've been useful characters, we won't be seeing them any more. That said, is there anything stopping you from weaving in a brief example that utilized C&E in later chapters? My point is, they get dropped to suddenly, and that's a lose thread. There are various ways to tie it up. -Amy