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The Signal and the Noise Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don’t Nate Silver 544p It is a pretty interesting book especially becus it covers some areas of science not usually covered in popsci (geology, meteorology), and i learned a lot. it is also clearly written and easy to read, which speeds…
Continue ReadingI recently got interested in a new field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_epidemiology Cognitive epidemiology is a field of research that examines the associations between intelligence test scores (IQ scores or extracted g-factors) and health, more specifically morbidity (mental and physical) and mortality. Typically, test scores are obtained at an early age, and compared to later morbidity and mortality….
Continue ReadingConsider Marx’s famous words in “The Eighteenth Brumaire o f Louis Bonaparte” : “Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and trans mitted from the past” (Marx 1978[1852]:595). In place o…
Continue ReadingCambridge.University.Press.Analyzing.Grammar.An.Introduction.Jun.2005 free pdf download Overall, there is nothing much to say about this book. It covers most stuff. Neither particularly good, or interesting, or particularly bad or uninteresting, IMO. — Forexample, what is the meaning of the word hello? What information does it convey? It is a very difficult word to define, but every…
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