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The author Anne Fadiman considers herself a common reader. Who is a common reader ? In her words, The common reader differs from the critic and the scholar. She is worse educated, and nature has not gifted her so generously. She reads for her own pleasures rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinion of others. Above all, she is guided by an instinct to create for himself, out of whatever odds and ends she can come by , some kind of whole.

Detecting Parkinson’s via a phone call !! http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf

Was recovering from a brief illness. Tried reading this book just to recover from my drowsy and sullen mood. I found the first part of this book interesting. Given the amount of information overload it often helps us to understand how our brain functions. “How do we use our brains for understanding, deciding, recalling, memorizing and inhibiting information ?” is an important question that we all need to answer, to function efficiently in our lives.

[This book is written by Annette J. Dobson, a Biostatistics Professor at University of Queensland(Brisbane). I had come across this book way back in May 2010 and had worked through out the book. Here is what I wrote about it back then. While trying to understand local likelihood modeling, I realized that I had forgotten some basic principles relating to diagnostics and model evaluation for GLM. Sometimes I wonder what makes things stick.