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industrial statistician George Box: “Every model is wrong, but some are useful.”
Timothy Ferriss • The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
Sur le plan politique, il avait reçu la confirmation que le phénomène démocratique constituait la clé de l’avenir, qui permettrait de libérer la créativité et l’énergie de la société et, dès lors, ne manquerait pas de s’imposer en France et en Europe. Sur le plan intellectuel, il s’engagea dans un travail de compréhension du phénomène démocratique
... See moreNicolas Baverez • Le Monde selon Tocqueville: Combats pour la liberté (French Edition)
Bacon was the first of the long line of scientifically minded philosophers who have emphasized the importance of induction as opposed to deduction. Like most of his successors, he tried to find some better kind of induction than what is called “induction by simple enumeration.” Induction by simple enumeration may be illustrated by a parable. There
... See moreBertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
All models are wrong, but some are useful. George Box, statistician
Gregory Zuckerman • The Man Who Solved the Market
... See moreAlthough the West’s combination of markets plus science/technology does generate learning (companies die, startups replace them etc), our political institutions show little-to-no sign of learning in how they deal with things like state competition and war. Patterns of failure recur reliably hence books like Thucydides and Sun Tzu remain cutting edg
“Real life consists of bluffing, of little tactics of deception, of asking yourself what is the other man going to think I mean to do,” von Neumann wrote. “And that is what games are about in my theory.”
Maria Konnikova • The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
