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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
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A circle is many straight lines
Infinite sums
Linear Regression
All math applied with common sense, fun read so far.
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
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Данило Судин
is on page 353 of 408
"гра в кістки" реально бентежить...
— Aug 03, 2017 12:57AM
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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
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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
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Данило Судин
is on page 102 of 408
що ж, одна неточність таки є
— Jul 31, 2017 03:33PM
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Данило Судин
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"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
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Ramsai Neelam
is on page 70 of 480
Torah ELS code and Baltimore stock broker were simply brilliant.
— Jul 25, 2017 03:39AM
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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
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Si me tatúo algo alguna vez, puede que sea "¿Dónde están los agujeros que faltan?"
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
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Si me tatúo algo alguna vez, puede que sea "¿Dónde están los agujeros que faltan?"
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
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Jarek Miszczak
is on page 100 of 480
Very funny and very interesting!
— Jun 16, 2017 09:23AM
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Jay
is 53% done
Really enjoying the discussion on survivorship bias and how we can inadvertently make poor choices.
— Jun 04, 2017 01:01PM
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Jay
is 53% done
Really enjoying the discussion on survivorship bias and how we can inadvertently make poor choices.
— Jun 04, 2017 01:01PM
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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
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Tone
is on page 362 of 457
a lot of statistics, economic or political or medical issues
— Jun 03, 2017 07:46AM
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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
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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
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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
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Finished part II
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
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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.
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
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this chapter (13 pages) took me an hour to finish! :D Mathematics always blow my mind!
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
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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
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Didn't like this chapter a lot .. He didn't shut up about the Null hypothesis
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
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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
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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.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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.






