I had been intending to read this book for many months but somehow never had a chance to go over it. Unfortunately I fell sick this week and lacked strength to do my regular work. Fortunately I stumbled on to this book again. So, I picked it up and read it cover to cover while still getting over my illness. One phrase summary of the book is “Develop Bayesian thinking”. The book is a call to arms for acknowledging our failures in prediction and doing something about it.

Love your life and you’ll lose it. Risk it and maybe, just, you’ll totter into heaven — the place of both annihilation and total knowledge; the place of beauty and joy. The risk is absolute, you’ll get nothing else out of it, not pleasure, not health, not affection, not comfort and certainly not safety. Just the beauty of God. - Sara Maitland

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it. — Thomas Fuller

Stumbled to an entire book that is written using IPython Notebook. Wow!! Gone are the days when one had to read through static documents to learn something. Now with this kind of stuff, reading a book and executing the code that goes with the chapters of the book can be done very easily. Link : Probabilistic Programming & Bayesian Methods for Hackers