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Truth . . . is much too complicated to allow for anything but approximations. John von Neumann
“The rating agencies were not exceedingly competent”
― STRESS TEST
― STRESS TEST
“I've always found people love you best if you can laugh at your own foolish misfortunes and keep mum about everyone else's”
― Prodigal Summer
― Prodigal Summer
“I always say that the way you write a novel is for the first 83 drafts you pretend that nobody is ever, ever going to read it.”
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“...if you aren't, at any given time, scandalized by code you wrote five or even three years ago, you're not learning anywhere near enough”
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“At the federal level, this problem could be greatly alleviated by abolishing the Electoral College system. It's the winner-take-all mathematics from state to state that delivers so much power to a relative handful of voters. It's as if in politics, as in economics, we have a privileged 1 percent. And the money from the financial 1 percent underwrites the microtargeting to secure the votes of the political 1 percent. Without the Electoral College, by contrast, every vote would be worth exactly the same. That would be a step toward democracy.”
― Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
― Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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