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The little biographical vignettes are very nice. I'd never heard about the feud between Jacob Bernoulli and his brother...
— Aug 22, 2010 12:59PM
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Manny
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It is said that von Neumann recommended to Shannon that he use the word entropy, not only because of its similarity to the quantity used in physics but also because "nobody knows what entropy really is, so in any discussion you will always have an advantage."
— Aug 22, 2010 03:21AM
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Manny
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Nearly all the mass of a high-dimensional sphere is concentrated in a thin shell near the surface. So be careful about analogising from two dimensions to many.
— Aug 19, 2010 01:56PM
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If this book were a spaceship, we'd now be out of the solar system and about to engage the hyperdrive. Fasten your seat belts.
— Mar 18, 2010 01:11AM
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My knowledge of statistics, I will claim, is not a hazy 'un/And I know why you should and why you shouldn't be a Bayesian. The Major-General
— Mar 17, 2010 05:34AM
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Starts off well, with a brilliant example illustrating the key concepts of data sparseness and overfitting.
— Mar 15, 2010 05:30AM
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