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Comment author: RichardKennaway 13 June 2012 09:43:30AM *  2 points [-]

I recommend Old Papers.

It's curious that in all three volumes of that work (searched on Amazon), there's not a single paper by E.T. Jaynes, and just a single mention of him anywhere.

In old papers people know what they are talking about, and how it relates to everything else from their time, and how it relates to what their innovation is, and they explain it all.

Presumably implying that people don't do that now? Is that a general trend, and in other fields than statistics? To take a nonrandom example, Judea Pearl seems to measure up well by those standards.

Comment author: witzvo 14 June 2012 05:24:32AM 0 points [-]

Wow! Excellent point, and excellent question! Updating. Thanks.

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