Comment author: fiddlemath 07 February 2011 01:47:12AM 5 points [-]

MacKay's Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms may not be exactly what you're looking for. But I've heard it highly recommended by people with pretty good taste, and what I've read of it is fantastic. Also, the pdf's free on the author's website.

Comment author: john-lawrence-aspden 26 May 2011 09:46:15PM 1 point [-]

I highly recommend this book, but then it's currently my introduction to both Information Theory and Bayesian Statistics, and I haven't read any others to compare it to. I find it difficult to imagine a better one though.

Clear, logical, rigorous, readable, and lots of well chosen excellent exercises that illuminate the text.

Comment author: [deleted] 26 May 2011 07:01:32PM 16 points [-]

I'm actually an example of this - I was born without the Mystic Eyes Of Depth Perception so I'll never know what stereoscopic vision "feels like".

If you turn something or move around it, even if you only use one eye to do this, your brain puts together the succeeding images to create a three-dimensional visual experience of the scene. Here is an example. If you're curious about "what it's like" to have stereo vision, in my opinion it is not far off from this, without the movement.

Comment author: john-lawrence-aspden 26 May 2011 07:24:24PM 2 points [-]

The link is well worth following. Wow! Stereo vision with one eye closed!

Comment author: john-lawrence-aspden 10 February 2011 12:21:49AM -1 points [-]

I'll be there. Someone should make a sign with a paperclip on it, or at least have a laptop open and displaying one.

I believe this one is becoming traditional.