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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #300 on: May 25, 2012, 01:18:07 AM »
Quote from: sync pulse on May 24, 2012, 11:12:37 PM
Ayn Rand worshipping sociopaths (right wingers) will like 1ST Lt. Milo Minderbinder...
Haha. I'll be on the lookout.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #301 on: May 25, 2012, 07:13:22 AM »
The Heroin Diaries

Also, Malignant Self-Love:  Narcissism Revisited and Why Does it Always have to be About You:  The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #302 on: May 26, 2012, 02:30:52 PM »
Quote from: Butterbean on May 25, 2012, 07:13:22 AM
The Heroin Diaries
Hmm. Nikki Sixx, eh? Sounds like a play on Jim Carroll's 'The Basketball Diaries.'  Read that one years ago, maybe high school? Liked it. I think he died in the last year, or two.  ???
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #303 on: May 27, 2012, 08:34:34 AM »
Mien Kampf. It's not really what I thought. It's the ramblings of a man who is hell bent on power and nationalism.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #304 on: May 27, 2012, 08:37:41 AM »
Quote from: irongrip400 on May 27, 2012, 08:34:34 AM
Mien Kampf. It's not really what I thought. It's the ramblings of a man who is hell bent on power and nationalism.

It's Mein Kampf, Schweinhund
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #305 on: May 27, 2012, 12:17:04 PM »
Quote from: DroppingPlates on May 27, 2012, 08:37:41 AM
It's Mein Kampf, Schweinhund

Sorry, yeah, the misspelling was a little Busch league on my part. Still, a little hard to read so far, a little scatter brained, but I'm only 100 or so pages in.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #306 on: May 27, 2012, 03:03:55 PM »
Quote from: irongrip400 on May 27, 2012, 12:17:04 PM
Sorry, yeah, the misspelling was a little Busch league on my part. Still, a little hard to read so far, a little scatter brained, but I'm only 100 or so pages in.

The last chapter is prob the best part
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #307 on: May 29, 2012, 06:41:08 PM »
Flex mag.
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dr.chimps

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #308 on: June 04, 2012, 04:12:37 AM »
Just finished Annie Proulx's first book, 'Heart Songs.' A collection of short stories - a prose form I usually don't care for - that even I can see already shows Proulx's mastery. She uses a few too many adjectives/adverbs, but she writes about place (Maine, Vermont) and people (flinty old, shallow rich) with such care and detail that I was swept along. Recommended.   
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #309 on: June 04, 2012, 11:41:31 AM »
MILO - June 2012 issue...

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #310 on: June 04, 2012, 04:16:49 PM »
the  latest willie mays book than steve michalik's atomic fitness.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #311 on: June 04, 2012, 04:55:33 PM »
Just read McCormac's "Blood Meridian" again. Man, I wish they'd film this shit.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #312 on: June 05, 2012, 06:36:22 AM »
Quote from: dr.chimps on May 26, 2012, 02:30:52 PM
Hmm. Nikki Sixx, eh? Sounds like a play on Jim Carroll's 'The Basketball Diaries.'  Read that one years ago, maybe high school? Liked it. I think he died in the last year, or two.  ???

Apparently NS died twice, but is still alive.

I think I saw a movie called The Basketball Diaries.....w/Leo Decaprio?  I remember it was very good.   
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #313 on: June 05, 2012, 07:05:56 AM »


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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #314 on: June 06, 2012, 09:54:42 AM »
Just noted that Ray Bradbury has died. One of the undisputed giants of Lit./Science Fiction.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/06/ray-bradbury-sci-fi-author-dies
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #315 on: June 07, 2012, 06:59:08 AM »
  I just read The Silence Of The Lambs in one day. Awesome read.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #316 on: June 19, 2012, 07:02:33 PM »



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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #317 on: June 20, 2012, 04:59:50 AM »
Just spent $44 at the used book store,  :D Picked up 6 James Lee Burke novels, a couple Robicheuax and the first 3 Billy Bob Holland books. I have already finished the Hollands, pretty good stuff.
  I also bought a couple Lee Child Reacher Novels and a Vince Flynn/ Mitch Rapp to fill up the gaps.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #318 on: June 20, 2012, 05:55:57 AM »
Re-reading Bernard Cornwell's,Nathaniel Starbuck series about the Civil War.
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dr.chimps

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #319 on: June 21, 2012, 03:25:07 PM »
Just finished Harry Crews' 'A Childhood: the biography of a place.'  Whoa. Guy grew up in Bacon County, Georgia, son of a tenant farmer, and during the Depression. Read this book not only for his excellent writing, but for a little perspective on your own self-absorbed life. Highly recommended!!!
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #320 on: June 21, 2012, 04:32:05 PM »
The sickest, nastiest, FREAKIEST book I've ever read....needed to read it on an empty stomach....def. a Getbigger's Book of the Month Club.



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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #321 on: June 25, 2012, 02:34:32 PM »
Rip van Winkle..time to sleep
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #322 on: June 25, 2012, 04:12:26 PM »
Quote from: JBGRAY on June 21, 2012, 04:32:05 PM
The sickest, nastiest, FREAKIEST book I've ever read....needed to read it on an empty stomach....def. a Getbigger's Book of the Month Club.





What is the book about? Looks like the same artist that did "The Wall".
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #323 on: June 25, 2012, 05:25:40 PM »
Just finished. Adam Carolla, the greatest philosopher of the 21st Century.

Epic.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #324 on: June 25, 2012, 06:47:17 PM »
                                                 Abstract
    Many methods can fit models with higher prediction accuracy, on average, than least squares linear
regression. But the models, including linear regression, are typically impossible to interpret or visualize.
We describe a tree-structured method that fits a simple but non-trivial model to each partition of the
variable space. This ensures that each piece of the fitted regression function can be visualized with
a graph or a contour plot. For maximum interpretability, our models are constructed with negligible
variable selection bias and the tree structures are much more compact than piecewise-constant regression
trees. We demonstrate, by means of a large empirical study involving twenty-seven methods, that the
average prediction accuracy of our models is almost as high as that of the most accurate “black-box”
methods from the statistics and machine learning literature.
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...ok, time to relax now
 
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