Title: Hi again HN,<p>I've been trying to learn more about statistics of late, motivated by some really fantastic applications I've seen, like automated composition of music, medical models, and stock market tools.<p>Atm I've been going through the book Elements of Statistical Learning, which I got from the frontpage a few days ago. But it's kind of slow going, since without really knowing how things relate to each other all I can do is go through it sequentially. What I want is to jump in with both feet, and start writing cool code.<p>Does anyone know of good books or articles for someone in my situation? Or you give me sort of a minimal spanning roadmap for what I need before I can start having some fun?<p>I know about basic probability theory, bayesian text classification and hidden markov models, but that's about all.
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