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Ridgeline was closed a large part of the time to new investors, and current partners were often restricted from adding capital. To maintain higher returns, we sometimes even reduced our size by returning capital to partners.

Even the most numerate scientists have woefully defective intuitions about how many subjects one really needs in a study before one can abstract away from the random quirks and bumps and generalize to all Americans, to say nothing of Homo sapiens.

Aspect of Science Overlooked by Educators.”

Incredibly enough, the first big breakthrough in recognition of the Generalized Uncertainty Principle did not come until the 1950’s, when a daring—if anonymous—group of biologists toppled Watsonian determinism with one short, pithy aphorism, now known as the Harvard Law of Animal Behavior: Under precisely controlled experimental conditions, a test

The result was Darwin’s theory of natural selection relying on blind variation and selective retention. Blind variation refers to the natural variability of physical features such as size and coloration in individual members of a species. Selective retention means that if a variation increases survival value, then the individual possessing that var

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

“Friday night experiments” (FNEs).