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Monthly Archives: June 2015

Life is like an Ayn Rand novel, except better written.

Life is like an Ayn Rand novel, except better written. via: Facebook

When people call you intelligent…

When people call you intelligent it is almost always because they agree with you. Otherwise they call you arrogant. via Facebook

Tim Hunt was making a self deprecating joke.

Well, it turned out from leaked transcripts that Tim Hunt was making a self deprecating joke. No apologies yet. And of course no application of the principle of charity. Two things. First, one really needs to be independent to open one’s mouth and avoid falling prey to a bunch of mob misinterpreting what you are […]

What unread books can teach us

‘The Unread books are where the action is. The writer Nassim Taleb approvingly calls such a collection an “antilibrary”; one’s shelves, he argues, should contain “as much of what you do not know” as finances allow. And don’t expect the proportion of unread books to fall, either. The more you read, the more the perimeter […]

Health benefits from fasting that was NOT associated with reduction of calories.

Good news, but people in Medicine are a bit slow in getting the very notion of 2nd order effect /Jensen’s inequality and disentangling mentally the first from the 2nd order effect. Which is why few are getting Antifragile or the more general sensitivity to scale of a distribution. In the paper, Longo and associates saw […]