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From: Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm>
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Subject: Re: Bayes in your Luggage
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 22:45:49 +0200
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John wrote:
 > But if pushed, I'd go for both.

What about a non-reflexive preference relation
between the two. Which one would you read first?

I also undecided in this matter. :-(

John schrieb:
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 02:34:07 +0200, Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm>
> wrote:
> 
>> I am planning to go on a vacation.
>>
>> Whats the better read this here:
>>
>> Illusions, Delusions, and Your Backwards
>> Bayesian Brain: A Biased Visual Perspective
>> https://karger.com/bbe/article/95/5/272/47302/Illusions-Delusions-and-Your-Backwards-Bayesian
>>
>> Or this here:
>>
>> Quantum Mechanics and Bayesian Machines
>> https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/10775#t=aboutBook
> 
> 
>    I'd take some form of e-book reader and a couple of dozens of books
> that don't require much intellectual power to process. Some easy SF or
> early Deen Koontz or Stephen Coonts or something.
> 
>   Books like those above, I'd leave for nice, Winter nights at home
> with a hot drink and snacks, and perhaps some notepaper and a pen.
> 
>   Some may say that you should *NEVER* take books on a holiday and
> that's a valid viewpoint if you think of the time as a period of
> gaining new experiences and seeing new things. Meeting new and exotic
> strangers, eating new and weird food and nearly dying from them,
> petting cute furries that don't exist in your home town and just
> seeing stuff that is *different*. These experiences should be enjoyed,
> reveled in, locked into your memory forever.
> 
>   But ... and this is more and more important as the Century passes ...
> due to Security Theatre among other idiocies, there will be extended
> times of blankness when you can't go anywhere, can't wander off, can't
> even talk to anyone because of ten million screaming gremlins so books
> are going to be a boon. Headphones and loud music, too.
> 
>   Even when you're travelling, on the bus, on the jet, on the boat or
> on the Orion, books are useful as a distraction if nothing else.
> 
>   But you don't want books whose reading means that you need to *think*
> especially not to think deeply. That way, you miss your flight or the
> call to lunch or both.
> 
>   Most of us can set our "watchdogs" to alert us when our flight is
> called so we stop eating or watching the laptop's TV program or
> whatever we're doing but that may not work when we concentrate on deep
> stuff.
> 
>   Sorry, the foregoing was all just my opinion. Maybe you *can* wake up
> from a mathematical stupor instantly. I know people who can't. They
> blink like a half-awake cat for some seconds before Reality becomes
> part of their world.
> 
>   Maths is hard. It takes thinking.
> 
>   Alan. E. Nourse is easier.
> 
>   But if pushed, I'd go for both. You never know how long the stay in
> the airport is going to be and running out of book is horrible. It
> might force you to actually *talk* to people. :)
> 
>                                                                J.
>