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| I sort of slogged my way through the end of Cryptonomicon, so at the time I swore to myself I'd have to give a long think before picking up one of these Baroque Cycle paper weights. But, some years later, I found myself pondering both what I'd read w...more | |
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| Impressively, Ender's Game withstands a second reading with high marks. Impelled towards this book after reading the Hunger Games series, I am now finding myself even more interesting in reading at least a couple of the novels that follow. Why is it...more | |
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| Even though Patchett's prose is consistently lovely, the structure of this novel was a bit too typical to warrant any adverbs to describe how much I liked it. That said, I quite enjoyed the character of the primary "antagonist" -- Patchett improved t...more | |
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| I was surprised and impressed by this memoir. Dyson is a fluent writer, and his background has provided him with a wealth of inspiration from all manner of disciplines. Here he manages to blend poetry, physics, politics, and morality into a coherent...more | |
“Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.”
― Amos Tversky, Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
― Amos Tversky, Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
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