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A little late to this fascinating NY Times piece that highlights many of the recent findings about how individuals learn (i.e. retain information) and how these findings directly contradict some of our longest-held beliefs on the subject. For example, people are encouraged to create a dedicated learning space where they routinely go to study. Apparently, this [...]
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In the latest issue of WIRED, Clive Thompson pens a great piece which echoes a sentiment I’ve touched on before: in a data-driven world it is critical that all citizens have at least a basic literacy in statistics. Now and in the future, we will have unprecedented access to voluminous amounts of data. The analysis of this [...]
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Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
