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The subtitle begins, misleadingly, with the word, "how." There is no "how" in the book. It is a beach read, an adventure story full of noir language, but short on words such as nonlinear, leptokurtic, nonparametric, adaptive. I think he uses the term "standard deviation" once. If Scott Patterson edited The Joy of Cooking, his recipe for chocolate cake would read as follows: "Irma Rombauer shuffled nervously. A little flour, a few eggs, and - wham, bam - through the magic of French chef-ery, a cake would magically appear. It had always worked in the past. Surely it would again this time, wouldn't it? Rombauer stared pensively at the oven." Entertaining, but hardly enlightening, and not useful.