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What are you currently reading?
Nyithra:
Been going through the series that showtimes Dexter is based off of
94ssd:
Just picked up And the Mountains Echoed, haven't started reading it yet but hopefully I will tomorrow.
Blyss:
--- Quote from: Nyithra on 15 Jul 2014, 01:28 ---Been going through the series that showtimes Dexter is based off of
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A friend of mine bought me the first three, and I enjoyed them. How many are they up to now?
Nyithra:
The series is complete and there are 7 books if my memory is correct.
Aimless:
"Our brains, wired to detect patterns, are always looking for a signal, when instead we should appreciate how noisy the data is."
-- Nate Silver
Kicked off my vacation reading with Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise, a book about some of the more important challenges associated with forecasting--and decision-making--in vitally important fields ranging from baseball to seismology. I believe it's his first book and it's a little rough around the edges (spineless editor, I suspect), but it's a great read so far.
I'm nearing the halfway mark and each chapter so far has focused on a specific field of research--that is also of direct real-world importance to real people--in order to highlight a few important concepts or ideas that help the reader understand when, how and why forecasting may be difficult as well as recognize when these limitations are the most dangerous wrt their impact on decisions (at all levels from the individual going for a walk without an umbrella to the politician voting for the wrong stimulus bill). To some extent these chapters seem to have the goal of eliciting indignation and outrage from the reader and I expect the second half of the book will concern itself with [Messianic :o] Bayesian approaches to mitigating many of the problems described in the first half.
This description may make the book sound a little dull or fussy or irrelevant, but it's actually really fun! The subjects and discussions are diverse but coherent, grounded in reality and presented in a way that is clear and entertaining.
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