Tag: #books
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The Drunkards Walk – Book Review pt 1
I’ve been reading The Drunkards Walk – How Randomness Rules our lives. Really interesting! The main points being: Some examples: ‘ Hot hand’ or streaks in sports (and movie producing, and corporate earnings, and investment returns) are accounted for by random chance, _even though they seem like they aren’t_. Firing the coach or CEO for…
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Book Report: Delta_V & Critical Mass
TL;Dr: Delta-V and Critical Mass were fun in a rather clinical way. Nice work Daniel Suarez I’ve been on a cyber-punk/sci-fi kick recently. Wanting to have some of those Snow Crash/Necromancer vibes. Surely there is a broader genre? Daniel Suarez’s books Delta-V and Critical Mass come up on a fair short list of options. These…