Reason is a fantastic tool & great fun…but sometimes, it can get in the way of simple (statistical) methods.
http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/faculty/Rabiner/ece259/Reprints/354_LALI-ASRHistory-final-10-8.pdf
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/6373/Blunsom_Computer_Languages.pdf
http://godel-escher-tarantino.tumblr.com/post/111377852917/in-2013-more-americans-were-killed-by-toddlers-than