books: add Continuous Time Stochastic Processes - #257
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Adds Thomas J. Sargent's Continuous Time Stochastic Processes to the /books page as a community book, linking to the MyST MD version hosted at thomassargent30.github.io. Source repo: github.com/thomassargent30/sargent-continuous-time The book grows out of lecture notes for a 2nd year PhD class at Minnesota in 1983-84. Chapters 1-14 and 17 revise those notes, 15-16 are new, and Part II reports companion papers by Hansen, Sargent, Marcet and Phillips with exercises, answers and Python code added. The cover was made for this entry and is stored twice: the full 1920x2880 cover, and the 480px-wide thumbnail the card actually references (the card renders it at 100px). Both are re-encoded to a 256-colour palette, taking the cover from 328 KB to 78 KB and the thumbnail from 50 KB to 14 KB. The dark field is flat sRGB 18,20,15 rather than a gradient, so the reduction bands nowhere and is visually indistinguishable (RMSE 0.08%). Added at order 7, which puts it alone on row four and leaves every existing entry untouched. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pull request overview
Adds a new community book entry to the QuantEcon /books/ page by introducing a new site.projects record (type book) and its associated cover assets, following the existing pattern used for other recently added books.
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- Added a new book metadata entry for Continuous Time Stochastic Processes (Thomas J. Sargent), linking to the published MyST site.
- Added corresponding book cover image assets (full cover + thumbnail) under
assets/img/books/.
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_projects/continuous-time.md |
New type: book project entry with ordering, link, and thumbnail reference for /books/ rendering. |
assets/img/books/continuous-time-cover.png |
Full-size cover image asset stored alongside other book covers. |
assets/img/books/continuous-time-thumb.png |
Thumbnail image referenced by the books card layout (/assets/img/books/{{ project.image }}). |
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Adds Thomas J. Sargent's Continuous Time Stochastic Processes to the /books page as a community book, linking to the MyST MD version at https://thomassargent30.github.io/sargent-continuous-time/intro.html (source: thomassargent30/sargent-continuous-time).
The book grows out of lecture notes Sargent prepared for a 2nd year PhD class at the University of Minnesota in 1983–84. Chapters 1–14 and 17 revise those notes, Chapters 15–16 are new (Kalman–Bucy filter, continuous time linear regulator), and Part II reports companion papers by Hansen, Sargent, Marcet and Phillips with exercises, answers and Python code added.
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Added at
order: 7, which puts it alone on row four. No existing entry changes — this PR adds three files and modifies none.Cover
New artwork made for this entry, stored twice following the pattern from #253 and #256: the full 1920×2880 cover, and the 480px-wide thumbnail the card actually references (the card renders it at 100px).
Both are re-encoded to a 256-colour palette, taking the cover from 328 KB to 78 KB and the thumbnail from 50 KB to 14 KB. Dark artwork is the case where palette reduction usually bands, so I checked before applying it: the field is a flat sRGB 18,20,15 rather than a gradient, and the sample-path band compares clean against the original at 1:1. RMSE is 0.08%.
The cover's kicker checks out against the book — Poisson is Chapters 3 and 5, Wiener is 6 and 7, and the Cramér representation is Chapter 10.
A separate PR offers the same cover to the upstream book repo.
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bundle exec jekyll buildand rendered the page headless: seven cards in the intended order, the new card alone on row four with its NEW badge, and the dark cover reads clearly against the white card at its 100px render size.🤖 Generated with Claude Code