Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain.

A brief summary of the book Takeaway : The book is definitely overpriced for what it delivers. Given that 50% of this book explains R basics, the title is not at all appropriate. Even the quant stuff that is covered in the remaining 50% of the book is laughably inadequate.

“Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.” ― Patrick Rothfusss

Via Frequentist inference only seems easy Bayesian methods are not necessarily more painful that frequentist procedures. The Bayesian estimation procedure requires more from the user (the priors) and has an expensive and complicated convolution step to use the data to relate the priors to the posteriors (unless you are lucky enough to have something like the theory of conjugate distributions to hide this step). The frequentist estimation procedure seems to be as simple as “copy over your empirical observation as your estimate.