Re: Bayes in your Luggage

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 am 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.