Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Just read the papers and save your money

The cross-entropy method is an exciting new technique for rare event simulation and stochastic optimization.The book unfortunately is a 99% copy and paste of the public available tutorials and papers. I bought the book before looking in the internet, so do not do the same mistake by me.Furthermore it is quite disappointing if every chapter is written in a highly redundant manner(which follows automatically if every chapter is a paper on its own).The topic and method is great but the book doesnt add much what the papers wont tell.