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Title: Didn't get anything out of it.
Review: After sitting down several times and attempting to learn something from Ripley's Pattern Recognition book I am frustrated each time. I wish Ripley could be a better author. From his writings you can see he knows a lot about Neural Networks, but cannot relate it to the reader. The text is VERY heavy in mathematical formulas (about 1/3 page of pure math per page). Another third of the book are references to other papers (There are 35 pages of references. Ripley cites about 1000 different papers.). That doesn't leave a lot left over for the reader. I suggest this book only for those already familiar enough with Neural Nets to have their papers cited by Ripley.One thing did surprise me. There is one page with color! Describing clustering (I think). I almost died laughing. Showed it to other stat friends familiar with Ripley and we chuckled.
