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A young reporter for the Post named Tom Wolfe followed up after my talk with an interview. The Post ran his story, “You Can So Beat the Gambling House at Blackjack, Math Expert Insists.” He was curious rather than skeptical, sympathetic but probing. Wolfe later became one of America’s most famous authors.
Edward O. Thorp • A Man for All Markets
Jason Stirman
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the volunteer rate and the share of adults who contribute to charity are among the strongest correlates of social capital at the state level
Isabel V. Sawhill • Social Capital: Why We Need It and How We Can Create More of It
Lo que es un modelo de filosofía latinoamericana (Documents-Network nº 6) (Spanish Edition)
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By late 2017, Berkeley had replaced Oxford as the financial capital of effective altruism. One reason for this was that Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife, Cari Tuna, signaled their intent to give away most of their multibillion-dollar fortune to effective altruist causes—but there were others. Oxford was still the movement’s intellec
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Brian Marchky
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