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An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (Springer Texts in Statistics)

by Gareth James

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Jul 25, 2018 07:20PM

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Energy Investments: An Adaptive Approach to Profiting from Uncertainties

by Ricardo Barcelona

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Jul 23, 2018 06:53PM

“One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people—I categorize them as life’s losers—who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I’m concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn’t be fighting me, they’d be doing something constructive themselves.”
― Donald Trump, Trump: The Art of the Deal

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“You know you have influence when people start noticing your absence more than the presence of others.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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“If dogs can smell fear, girls can smell nervousness, that was my experience. From”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Dancing in the Dark

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“They agree that chess training only improves chess skills but disagree that classroom training (almost) only improves classroom skills.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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“Imagine a speck of dust next to a planet a billion times the size of the earth. The speck of dust represents the odds in favor of your being born; the huge planet would be the odds against it. So stop sweating the small stuff. Don’t be like the ingrate who got a castle as a present and worried about the mildew in the bathroom. Stop looking the gift horse in the mouth—remember that you are a Black Swan.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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