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Statistical Decision Theory by John Pratt, Howard Raiffa, Robert Schlaifer.... only because I have to!

Great for those nights when it's hard to get to sleep!

Adam

Originally Posted by aalbina

Statistical Decision Theory by John Pratt, Howard Raiffa, Robert Schlaifer.... only because I have to!

Great for those nights when it's hard to get to sleep!

Adam

Statistics was the toughest course I had in Engineering for some reason. Laplace Transforms were tough but statistics made no sense to me.

Originally Posted by aalbina

Statistical Decision Theory by John Pratt, Howard Raiffa, Robert Schlaifer.... only because I have to!

Great for those nights when it's hard to get to sleep!

Adam

That sounds like a laugh ad a half 😂

Geek

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Originally Posted by aalbina

Statistical Decision Theory by John Pratt, Howard Raiffa, Robert Schlaifer.... only because I have to!

Great for those nights when it's hard to get to sleep!

Adam

Now that sounds like a MEAN read.

I am reading two books with overlapping content related to "bio-hacking". The first is called What Doesn't Kill Us by Scott Carney. The book is about using breath holding exercises and exposure to cold temperatures to burn fat and hack your body. The second book is The Paleo Manifesto by John Durant. Durant is writing about his experiences living as a modern caveman by eating a pre-agriculture diet and adopting other lifestyle habits that are more natural in tune with the way our bodies have evolved. Both works have are interesting and are worth giving a read if you are in to the subject.

I checked out two books from the Harvard Classics, or the"Five Foot Shelf" series. The first book I started is a selection of American historical readings in chronological order from the dicovery of the new world to the Declaration of Independence to the Gettysburg address to the treaty clising the Spanish-American war. The second book is Two Years Before the Mast. In the early 1800s a college student signs on up for two years at sea to improve his health after having measles. The book is a factual account of the author's two years at sea, based on his diary, of the life of an ordinary seaman.

"Two Years Before the Mast." this one sounds good to me, if you like it, then let me know, please.

I read "The Broken Sword" by Poul Anderson earlier, and I really liked it (fantasy, as an alternative to Lord of the Rings which I love, and Song of Ice and Fire which I could never get into except on TV). So now I am checking out other Poul Anderson books.

I'm about halfway through Two Years Before the Mast. The books is a bit of a slow read but it has been worth the time investment so far-descriptions of California, daily life aboard a ship, occasional poetic passages, and tyranny. This book is a Volume from the Five Foot Bookshelf.

The collection includes several plays. It occurred to me that instead of reading the plays I should see them performed. So, I have been checking them out at the library. I watched the first half of Shakespeare's The Tempest last night and have already watched Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Sophicle's Antigonne. The two English plays were performed at the Globe in London, which I think is modeled on the original theater.

This morning I saw a preview for a new movie production based on Murder on the Orient Express. It looks like it was made by Ridley Scott. Im intrigued.