Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Most of it is just noise

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From The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver. Page 13. Meanwhile, if the quantity of information is increasing by 2.5 quintillion bytes pe...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

When they fail they fail badly

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From The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver. Page 13. Complex systems like the World Wide Web have this property. They may not fail as o...
Monday, October 29, 2012

3 terabytes

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From The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver. Page 12. The human brain is quite remarkable; it can store perhaps three terabytes of inform...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

I was astounded that the effect was so large

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From The Marshmallow Study Revisited by Susan Hagen. The original study, as the article indicates, established that the behavioral trait o...

Recognizing objects in difficult situations means generalizing

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A massive amount of single source quoting about to begin. I have been reading Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise . A lot of good i...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

Situations matter most

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Prompted by David Brooks essay, What Moderation Means . He makes the comment that: The moderate does not believe that there are policies...
Friday, October 26, 2012

The best way to degrade a civilization

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Jacques Barzun, whome I have excerpted a number of times over the years, passed away yesterday at 104. From A Jacques Barzun Reader . In a...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

I wish I loved the Human Race

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There are days when I share this sentiment. "Wishes of an Elderly Man, Wished at a Garden Party, June 1914" by Sir Walter Alexan...
Friday, October 19, 2012

The sensation of breathing a different air

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George Orwell in his essay, England Your England When you come back to England from any foreign country, you have immediately the sensatio...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Five-Story Book Mountain Library

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From Magnificent Five-Story Book Mountain Library by Katie Hosmer. Wonderful.