The Engineered and the OrganicWall Photos
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
Insecure and weak pursuits try to derive strength from ornaments, decorations, prizes (Pulitzer, Booker, Nobel), awards (“best student paper” in 2014), titles, long resumes, and select memberships in academies. But animals, the public, and history dete…
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When someone, without being asked, expounds on why he “took the decision” to leave a certain job, you know he did not himself “take the decision” to leave that job.
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What will survive: things that don’t make sense yet have been around for a very very long time.
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My approach to writing in previous books has been as follows —but it took me a long time to realize it. Let the reader know on every page where he is located and how the current discussion stands in relation to the entire book —by continuously summ…
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
The definition of an academic is someone whose brain is designed to mistake the statement “everything has a reason” for “everything has an *accessible* reason”.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Thanks a million friends. Will add arrows. The graphs come from Chapter 4. www.fooledbyrandomness.com/chapter4.pdf
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Friends, I need some advice. Which picture seems clearer? Graph 1 or Graph 2? Thanks!Wall Photos
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Spend six months in bed and you will understand hormesis.Wall Photos
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
We need to split the world in machines (linear) and organisms (complex); machines are harmed by low-level stressors (material fatigue), organisms are harmed by the *absence* of low level stressors (hormesis).
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