“So this is the landscape of the Sleeper Curve. Games that force us to probe and telescope. Television shows that require the mind to fill in the blanks, or exercise its emotional intelligence. Software that makes us sit forward, not…
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Book Report: Everything Bad Is Good For You
Tagged with: Everything Bad Is Good For You, John F. Kennedy, Marshall McLuhan, Richard Nixon, Sleeper Curve, Steven Johnson, The Simpsons
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Posted in Books, Everything
Book Report: The Improbability Principle
“The Improbability Principle is not a single equation, such as Einstein’s famous E = mc², but a collection of strands which intertwine, braiding together and amplifying each other, to form a rope connecting events, incidents, and outcomes. The main strands…
Tagged with: Amos Tversky, birthday problem, Carl Sagan, Cauchy distribution, coincidences, Daniel Kahneman, David J Hand, Edward Lorenz, Guassian distribution, John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Mlodinow, Marshall McLuhan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, probabilities, The Big Bang Theory, The Black Swan, The Drunkard's Walk, The Improbability Principle
Posted in Books, Everything, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Everything, Math and Science
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