Boris Aleksandrovsky

 
Helpful votes received on reviews: 60% (3 of 5)
Location: San Francisco, CA United States
In My Own Words:
Boris's life outside work is spend engaging in various conceptual photography pursuits, learning about history, keeping up with the state of biological research, and coexisting with many exotic plants. Boris tries to advise various people and organizations on various topics, with only moderate success. You are welcome to contact Boris boris_forever@yahoo.com
 

Reviews

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ~ Howard Shore
Howard Shore's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" is a fitting conclusion of more then 7 years of work which took to complete the trilogy. In this last installment the bittersweet "Ring Motif" acquires trully mystical proportions with the descend of darkness and as Frodo is finally taken up by the powers of the Ring. The theme of the "Riders of Rohan" is one of my favourites - strong penetrating strings are accompanied by trimphant wind instruments as riders charge into the battle. Pippin's song in the "Stuart of Gondor" captures everybody's imagination (the lyrics are actually Bilbo's from the times of gathering garkness) as Faramir's suiside charge to recapture Osgiliath… Read more
Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks by Brian D. Ripley
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Let me start by saying that this book assumes a lot of background, especially in statistics. It dives into the math right away without even a hint or a gentle slope. But what I appreciate is that math is never used for its own sake, it is always justified. The book starts with the introduction to the problems neural nets are to be applied to - pattern recognition task. It proceeds to the elements of statistical decision theory, then goes up to linear discriminant analysis and perceptrons, then up you go to feed-forward neural nets. Non-parametric models and tree-based classifiers are covered next. Belief networks and unsupervised methods (MDS, clustering, etc..) follow. Coverage is… Read more
The Bloodless Revolution: England, 1688 by Stuart E. Prall
Stuart E. Prall's "The Bloodless Revolution" is an extensive and non-biased study of the seminal constitutional developments in 17th century England; which defined the constitutional monarchy in Britain in the age when absolutism reigned supreme elsewhere in the world. Author prepares the scene for the revolution by explaining relationship between king and the Parliament throughout Stuart dynasty starting from James I, thought Long Parliament, Civil War, Protectorate, Restoration, last years of Charles II, and the many encroachment on liberties and mistakes of James II which ultimately led to Glorious Revolution.

Emphasis is on developments in the legal system and relationship… Read more