Sublime

One of the most obvious features of animal behavior is the tendency to explore the environment.

Understanding and dealing correctly with the trade-off between risk and return is a fundamental, but poorly understood, challenge faced by all gamblers and investors.

the pursuit of knowledge about cause and effect;

Galton was, in essence, able to establish some of the practical consequences of Mendelian genetics without the benefit of knowing any genetics, nearly two decades before Mendel’s work was rediscovered.

Cultivating Clever Engineers

two large aggregated collections: Google Scholar and Web of Science.

Though it’s been around in some form for a century and more, Benford’s Law as a fraud examiner’s tool is only beginning to surface in the literature. The idea is, somebody wants to phony up a list of numbers but gets too cute about randomizing it. They assume that the first digits, 1 through 9, are all going to be evenly distributed, so that each o

2. Pay Attention to the “Psychology of Search”

Knowing which user encountered which problem allows you to better estimate sample sizes, problem discovery rates, and the number of undiscovered problems (as described in detail in Chapter 7).