Mike S
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Mike S
Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis
source: UK’s Office of Budget Responsibility
models, despite their reputation for impartiality, reflect goals and ideology
Weapons of Math Destruction Quotes by Cathy O'Neil
Proving a false identity? What in the world is the output here?
You never know a husband till you marry him.
Unhappy! of course you'll be unhappy. Who the devil are you that you shouldn't be unhappy, like the mother that bore you? Disappointed! of course we'll be disappointed. -Chesterton, Man-alive
In a way, these things they’d gathered were an illusion. A way to reassure themselves that they were doing something to prepare.
Brandon Sanderson • Towers of Midnight (The Wheel of Time Book 13)
American success may serve as confirmation of the catastrophic idea that technology is our savior
Source: technopoly by Neil postman
“Always suspect everybody” -Foxey, Sampson brass’s father
Capital hands at business have made, and do daily make, this axiom their polar star and compass
“Only the paranoid survive” —Andy
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation…
Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame.
(Chesterton, Orthodoxy)
It is said that they who wander in darkness, and still more they who do so in a mist, merely scribe circles across the plain.