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Bayes' Rule With R: A Tutorial Introduction to Bayesian Analysis:
"Very, very good, easy intro to Bayes' theorem except for the massive difficulty curve that comes about 2/3 through."
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Seeing, second edition: The Computational Approach to Biological Vision (Mit Press):
"Great book. Great experience. Approachable. Amazing. Brilliant. You can understand technicals of sight."
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Seeing, second edition: The Computational Approach to Biological Vision (Mit Press):
"Scientists, philosophers (and especially that one Oxford philosopher who created a lecture named "What do we see?") have pondered on this millennia-old question without reaching a definitive answer:
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Bayes' Rule with Python: A Tutorial Introduction to Bayesian Analysis:
"I needed this book to jump start my study of probabilistic graph models. Up to this book, I had a basic grasp of the basic ideas of priors and Bayes' Rule (written as an equation), but seeing both verbal explanations of equations and then seeing the "
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This is a fine book. Gleick gives Newton scientific and cultural context, placing him firmly in the fluxions of his own turbulent times. However ... call me picky, but Gleick says of Galileo, "He rolled balls down ramps and concluded, WRONGLY, that t ...more |
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