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baltimore stockbroker a/b testing stocks to get subscribers

ladder curve and the fallacy of linearity

the bible code and an obsession with the unexplainable

linearity lessons: proportions make sense but should be used carefully. proportions using negative numbers can be misleading.

Three DFW references (two about IJ) and one Gravity's Rainbow reference... did someone put a curse on me?

The armor, said Wald, doesn’t go where the bullet holes are. It goes where the bullet holes aren’t: on the engines.

The reason planes were coming back with fewer hits to the engines is that planes that got hit in the engine weren’t coming back.

F por los números de Brian uwu

50 pages in and I keep failing my tests. definitely a scam.

GREAT

Ok

“The standard economic story is that human beings, when they’re acting rationally, make decisions that maximize their utility. Everything in life has utility; good things, like dollars and cake, have positive utility, while bad things, like stubbed toes and missed planes, have negative utility. Some people even like to measure utility in standard units, called utils.” – Jordan Ellenberg, 2014

Love the example with bullet holes

“The unknown is a stone in the sea, which obstructs our progress. We can try to pack dynamite in the crevices of rock, detonate it, and repeat until the rock breaks apart [...]. Or you can take a more contemplative approach, allowing your level of understanding gradually and gently to rise, until after a time what appeared as an obstacle is overtopped by the calm water, and is gone.” – Jordan Ellenberg, 2014

Very intriguing.. Enthralled in the authors witty explanations and comparisons. Can’t wait to finish the book

“Say what you want about meth, you can’t deny it is broadly and sincerely enjoyed.”

This isn't a "fun" read per se, but I'm finding it to be immensely enjoyable.

love it so far -- the concepts are explained so simply!! The chapters are part concise explanation and part short-hand mathematical proof. Definitely worth a read and a re-read.

The author is super approachable. Too bad I never got this flavor of instruction when I took geometry or calculus!

The author is very explicit in the forward that it is a book about mathematical concepts for a lay person.

If I could do it all over again, I would go back to school for Statistics. This book is off to a good start!

the part on induction was a bit aimless :/

Disorganized without coherent theme and structure. Just the book you would expect for a pure mathematician.

Chapter 2 talks about limits and non standard analysis and how to understand infinities and approximations.
Chapter 3 talks about wrong estimations based on linear regression a very nice example was about a canon projectile if you only have the first five points in time and tried to find a relation between projectile and time you will have a straight line instead of parabola.

Chapter one introduces the concept of non linearity, when we try to optimize something its usually not a straight line with one end better than another it's more of a non linear relation that can take a form of curve.

"one of the most painful parts of teaching mathematics is seeing students damaged by the cult of the genius. The genius cult tells students it's not worth doing mathematics unless you're the best at mathematics, because those special few are the ones whose contributions matter. We don't treat any other subject that way!"

"keep this in mind when you're told that two phenomena in nature or society were found to be uncorrelated. It doesn't mean there's no relationship, only that there's no relationship of the sort that correlation is designed to detect"

not everything is linear!

Section on the Grandi Series was well explained and integrated. Took him 4 pages to summarize a year of my high school calculus.

Meh

Sooo Trhilliiiiinggg...

Bahasanya cukup akademisi, butuh belajar vocab2 baru

I’m hoping to learn a lot from this book.

Loving this, so far!

Svela perché non c’è bisogno di credere ai complotti ambientali per avere più morti di tumore al cervello a Vercelli che a Torino. La statistica risolve molte contorte pseudoteorie.