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Appreciate that the book is organised into themes/ areas like sports or casinos

Children are natural hackers. Always testing the rules and finding ways to get around them so they can do what they want. New found appreciation for my nephews.

“AI pioneers had turn from the earlier Enlightenment’s focus on reducing the world to mechanistic rules to constructing approximations of reality…To enable machine learning, what mattered was the overlap between various representations of the thing not its ideal. In philosophical terms, Wittgenstein not Plato”

Overcoming the biases inherent in hindsight. Ask: if a different outcome had occurred, would you have been surprised? This is to take you back to your thought processes back then

Analysts overestimate the accuracy of their judgement while consumers underestimate how much they learnt from intelligence report. Overseers that judge failures overestimate its foreseeable nature than it was the case.

Significance of the “fault tree” which showed the various ways a car could break down. Mechanics who were shown only part of the tree didn’t fully account for cases that were left out. Point is: It is important and difficult to recognise what data is absent

multi-attribute utility analysis Is here used to decide which car to buy

“Beliefs, assumptions, concepts and information retrieved from memory form a mindset or mental model that guides perception and processing of new information”

“The finding that judgements are based on a few critical variables rather than on the entire spectrum of evidence helps to explain why information on additional variables does not normally improve predictive accuracy”

Schema= any pattern of relationships amongst data stored in memory. Any set of nodes and links between them that can be retrieved as a single unit. Eg bar = knowledge of properties of a bar and what distinguishes it from a tavern

“Once an observer has formed an image…or developed a mindset or expectations concerning the phenomenon being observed, this conditions future perceptions”

“Analysts do not achieve objectivity by avoiding preconceptions. That would be ignorance or self-delusion. Objectivity is achieved by making basic assumptions and reasoning as explicit as possible so that they may be challenged…and examine their validity”

The basis of this statement is that we use preconceptions to make sense of wide body of information. Like a mental shortcut (heuristics)

Not like meta-perception where you try to perceive how other people perceive you. More like understanding how you perceive, what affects it, the consequences and what you can do about it. So far, recognising that it is affected, is the first step.

I’d like to be like Jenny. To have everything she needs, and be satisfied to have so little that she could freely give away gold coins as though they were nothing.

At this point, this story is so sad. How have they made it this far? Hoping for a rainbow to come out but the clouds are relentless with rain

Interesting to read how people’s minds work differently between states of wakefulness and sleepiness.

“They really shouldn’t be hanging around. They need to start bleaching his floor…burning his clothes. What about Quebec or Catalonia, some wee separatist place? They might like how you’re Scottish. You can say how you’re an activist or it was a political killing kind of thing.”

“I hear you’ve been hassling my staff… I wouldn’t worry, mate. I do it all the time. It’s good to be like that, a bit mental. Because you’re a timid guy”

“His voice sounded harsh and terrible, like Richard Burton about to die”

“Who are you? How come your face is in the wall?”

Ok this is getting too creepy. I might have to give up not because it isn’t good, but because I still want to sleep at night.

I’m liking the connection between the lovers.

Wait, is there a horny ghost? I’m here for it.

“A witch follows no rules and does nothing that does not please her…if the law does not follow her desires, she will ignore it. Rules make her yawn and guidelines bore her…do not start anything you cannot finish, intention matters, accept anger..weakness…pain. As these cannot be avoided turn them to your use…” guidelines must have been written by a fed-up girl formerly in their place. Understandably.

Witchcraft by girls— I’m here for it.

The amount of pee & vomit reference is unrivalled. When do we get to the good part?

If you beat manners into a child early and long enough, the resulting neurosis becomes indistinguishable from a personality… The brow-beaten girl that I was would have been quite content… My father chose to make that well suddenly and irredeemably inaccessible. Such dismissal leaves one feeling like a living faux pas… The privations of a narcissistic parent are sometimes subtle but rarely unimaginative.”

“It might have been like most last words, just blurted out garbage. It’s silly how much significance the living love to heap upon final utterances and acts. As if no one was ever hit by a train or died in difficulty or was befuddled by delirium” this sort of sardonic realism resonates with me

(Sex) stimulated the mind and carried in its ecstasies, epiphanies… sex helped her think… he found their pairing to be akin to an emotional exorcism. As all the tangled and unsettled feelings: the anxiety, frustration, and dread that had gathered…over the course of the day, was all at once blown to the ether as undiluted serenity rushed in to fill the void”

“No one has any compunction about shouting at a race track”
I shall adopt this justification for being more expressive in the boudoir as my own, henceforth. I, too, am full of passion.