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Shane Benzie • The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement
STAGGERING: when you and partner are both at net, you should both be staggered (one closer to net to hit volley; the other a little bit behind to cover potential lob).
When ball is on YOUR HALF, stagger UP. Else, stagger back.
The bottom line is that small changes in the communication structure can affect decisions.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Great summary.
When I wrote the foreword to Spitz's Safe Haven I missed the connection to Cramèr who in early 1900 solved the problem:
Insurance requires a < subexponential dist. which BY DEFINITION allows one to use the law of large numbers w/o hitting the absorbing barrier.
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