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Tara
Tara is on page 68 of 457
Laffer's curve
A circle is many straight lines
Infinite sums
Linear Regression

All math applied with common sense, fun read so far.
Aug 09, 2017 12:53PM Add a comment
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Данило Судин
Данило Судин is on page 362 of 408
Математик, який авторитетно заявляє, що громадської думки не існує, суголосний соціологам, які говорять те саме, але от суть висловів зовсім різна. Мораль: математики можуть пояснити цікаві парадокси щодо прийняття рішень в суспільстві, але загалом їхнє розуміння соціального дуже спрощене
Aug 03, 2017 02:59AM Add a comment
Як ніколи не помилятися. Сила математичного мислення

Данило Судин
Данило Судин is on page 353 of 408
"гра в кістки" реально бентежить...
Aug 03, 2017 12:57AM Add a comment
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Данило Судин
Данило Судин is on page 313 of 408
тепер математичне очікування сусідує з очікуваною цінністю. не можу збагнути, як так сталося
Aug 02, 2017 02:22PM Add a comment
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Данило Судин
Данило Судин is on page 224 of 408
всі реготали з "непозбувної бентеги", а от мене жахають " очікувана цінність" та "типове відхилення". якщо перше - просто калька, то як з'явилося " типове" - ніяк не збагну. певному видавництву не завадить науковий редактор, бо такі перекладацькі ляпи - вже не вперше
Aug 02, 2017 12:55AM Add a comment
Як ніколи не помилятися. Сила математичного мислення

Данило Судин
Данило Судин is on page 102 of 408
що ж, одна неточність таки є
Jul 31, 2017 03:33PM Add a comment
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Данило Судин
Данило Судин is on page 38 of 408
"війн" та "і те і те" сигналізують, що книзі не завадила б уважніша вичитка. а американський стиль автора деколи дуже дратує. але поки байки про статистиків радують
Jul 31, 2017 05:15AM Add a comment
Як ніколи не помилятися. Сила математичного мислення

Ramsai Neelam
Ramsai Neelam is on page 70 of 480
Torah ELS code and Baltimore stock broker were simply brilliant.
Jul 25, 2017 03:39AM Add a comment
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Pablo
Pablo is on page 162 of 457
Impresionante. Genial para entender mejor los problemas que podemos resolver con la estadística y cómo se cruza con el sentido común y con las ganas que tenemos de tener razón.
Si me tatúo algo alguna vez, puede que sea "¿Dónde están los agujeros que faltan?"
Jul 22, 2017 03:33PM Add a comment
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Pablo
Pablo is on page 162 of 457
Impresionante. Genial para entender mejor los problemas que la estadística causa al cruzarse con el sentido común y con las ganas que tenemos de tener razón.
Si me tatúo algo alguna vez, puede que sea "¿Dónde están los agujeros que faltan?"
Jul 22, 2017 03:25PM Add a comment
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Tori
Tori is on page 241 of 480
chapter 13: where the train tracks meet. I would have called it why the rich get richer.
Jun 30, 2017 07:18PM Add a comment
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Jarek Miszczak
Jarek Miszczak is on page 100 of 480
Very funny and very interesting!
Jun 16, 2017 09:23AM Add a comment
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Jay
Jay is 53% done
Really enjoying the discussion on survivorship bias and how we can inadvertently make poor choices.
Jun 04, 2017 01:01PM Add a comment
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

Jay
Jay is 53% done
Really enjoying the discussion on survivorship bias and how we can inadvertently make poor choices.
Jun 04, 2017 01:01PM Add a comment
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Tone
Tone is on page 362 of 457
p. 416 "Genius is a thing that happens, not a kind of person."
Jun 04, 2017 07:19AM Add a comment
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Tone
Tone is on page 362 of 457
a lot of statistics, economic or political or medical issues
Jun 03, 2017 07:46AM Add a comment
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Tone
Tone is on page 291 of 457
there's a surprisingly (at least to me) huge amount of math to be said about Lotteries and expectations, extending to code-designing
Jun 02, 2017 07:32AM Add a comment
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Markku Kesti
Markku Kesti is on page 100 of 496
Suositeltava kirja erityisesti ja etenkin niille joiden mielestä matematiikkaa ei tarvitse missään koulun jälkeen.
Jun 02, 2017 05:37AM Add a comment
Miten välttää virheet: matemaattisen ajattelun voima

Raoufa Ibrahim
Raoufa Ibrahim is on page 195 of 468
"On this matter[God or NO God], math is silent."

Finished part II
May 29, 2017 02:54PM Add a comment
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Tone
Tone is on page 191 of 457
...But it doesn't tell the whole story.
What Sherlock Holmes should have said was:
"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth, unless the truth is a hypothesis it didn't occur to you to consider."
Less pithy, more correct.
May 29, 2017 08:56AM Add a comment
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Raoufa Ibrahim
Raoufa Ibrahim is on page 143 of 468
How wonderfully paradoxical: What helps us break down the final mysteries about prime numbers may be new mathematical ideas that structure the concept of structurelessness itself.

this chapter (13 pages) took me an hour to finish! :D Mathematics always blow my mind!
May 27, 2017 08:44AM Add a comment
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Prithivi Da
Prithivi Da is on page 50 of 480
Intellectual orgasm.
May 24, 2017 03:33AM Add a comment
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Marcos Malumbres
Marcos Malumbres is on page 88 of 457
Great (obvious but still great) description of the wrong use of linear regresión in real life...
May 17, 2017 03:06PM Add a comment
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Raoufa Ibrahim
Raoufa Ibrahim is on page 130 of 468
Dead fish don't read minds

Didn't like this chapter a lot .. He didn't shut up about the Null hypothesis
May 13, 2017 10:06AM Add a comment
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Mina Rehman
Mina Rehman is on page 2 of 468
"Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world."
May 03, 2017 04:26AM Add a comment
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Jessica
Jessica is on page 189 of 468
DNF

The book was too dry for me to read at length and so far it's very much focused on statistics.

What I've read I've found pretty informative but I have no motivation to read further.
May 03, 2017 02:14AM Add a comment
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Raoufa Ibrahim
Raoufa Ibrahim is on page 102 of 468
It is probable that improbable things will happen. Granted this, one might argue that what is improbable is probable
May 02, 2017 02:16AM Add a comment
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Jessica
Jessica is on page 162 of 468
Interesting but kinda dry and hard to process. Will take it slow with this book from now on
Apr 28, 2017 02:13AM Add a comment
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Jessica
Jessica is on page 124 of 468
Good to remember: statistically significant does not mean significant like we mean in life. It just means that the event is notable, but the effect on everyday life practicality may be of very small impact.
Apr 27, 2017 04:44AM Add a comment
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Jessica
Jessica is on page 85 of 468
Interesting to read about to see how profound math concepts applies to everyday life.

Most interesting was about how percentages and negative numbers cannot mix, the law of large numbers, and applying linear regression wrongly. All these can affect how data is interpreted and misrepresented to the public.
Apr 26, 2017 10:26AM Add a comment
How Not to Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life