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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
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Stephen
Nov 13, 2013 rated it really liked it
This book ranges from baseball to poker to the stock market to natural disasters to potential terrorist attacks. A good introduction to subjective probability and forecasting for the non-specialist. The treatment of power laws is especially well done. The chapter on internet poker is boring and could have been left out without any loss to the rest of the book.
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This book ranges from baseball to poker to the stock market to natural disasters to potential terrorist attacks. A good introduction to subjective probability and forecasting for the non-specialist. The treatment of power laws is especially well done. The chapter on internet poker is boring and could have been out without any loss to the rest of the book.
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