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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't by Nate Silver

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Information becomes knowledge only when it’s placed in context. Without it, we have no way to differentiate the signal from the noise, and our search for the truth might be swamped by false positives. What isn’t acceptable under Bayes’s ...more

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (Incerto Book 4)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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“A saying by the brothers Geoff and Vince Graham summarizes the ludicrousness of scale-free political universalism. I am, at the Fed level, libertarian; at the state level, Republican; at the local level, Democrat; and at the family and friends level, a socialist.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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