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eliminated the Newtonian illusion of absolute space and time; quantum theory eliminated the Newtonian dream of a controllable measurement process; and chaos eliminates the Laplacian fantasy of deterministic predictability.”
James Gleick • Chaos: Making a New Science
They were the economist Amos Tversky and the psychologist Daniel Kahneman. Together, the two launched the field of behavioral economics—and Kahneman won a Nobel Prize—by showing that man is a very irrational beast. Feeling, they discovered, is a form of thinking.
Tahl Raz • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
Clay Shirky • 30 highlights
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The Power of Fifty Bits: The New Science of Turning Good Intentions into Positive Results
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There is no Newtonian law of markets; they are all ephemeral relationships in a sea of noise and the only way you can do that and capture non-linearity and complexity is with a system that is rich enough to be able to contain all the models, so a universal approximator—that’s what neural nets are—and allows you to do that.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
The World’s Most Famous Physicists: The Lives and Legacies of the Scientists Who Pioneered Physics
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