1. In Chapter 5‚ of Supercrunchers‚ "Experts versus Equations"‚ the author makes a great case for the fact that equations predict better than humans. What reasons does the author give that illustrate why a human cannot make predictions as well as an equation? Reason 1: the human mind tends to suffer from a number of well documented cognitive failings and biases that distort our ability to predict accurately. Reason 2: Once we form a mistaken belief about something‚ we tend to cling to it. We are
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Human society fears what they do not understand. When we observe something as unfamiliar we perceive it as a threat. This is what occurred in Salem‚ as dozens of people were hanged after being convicted of witchcraft. During Miller’s era Americans were persecuted by their own countrymen for believing in Communism. America feared Communism would take over the world just as the inhabitants of Salem thought evil spirits would overwhelm their mind‚ souls and eventually Salem itself. Fear can quickly
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I Biography of James Matthew Barrie-the author J. M. Barrie was born May 9‚ 1960 in Kirriemuir‚ Scotland. Margaret Oglivy raised him in the midst of 10 other children‚ the mother he adored. When Barrie was six‚ his older brother David (the mother’s favorite) died and Barrie spent the rest of his childhood trying to replace his brother for his mourning mother. This attempt to replace a forever-young David would take it’s toll on the rest of Barrie’s adult life and his writing. Barrie could be described
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Book Review: The Analects of Confucius China experienced a lot of the revolutionary changes and a proliferation of new ideas in the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period. These periods can be represented as chaotic periods‚ so eventually there were many tries for solving the disorders of the societies by many philosophers[1]. Philosophers in those periods tried to address within these historical context and requests such as the needs for stability and reunification. Among them‚ Confucius
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Book review Digital Fortress is a fairly well-written and entertaining novel. The main storyline is based upon a hush-hush operation within the NSA to obtain and or destroy the only existing copies of a pass-key that‚ if made public‚ could enable the use of an encryption program that would create coded messages that would be entirely unbreakable thereby rendering the NSA obsolete and allowing undecipherable communications between terrorist organizations and crime rings throughout the world. The
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HIS306 Leo Africanus Book Review Leo Africanus By‚ Amin Maalouf In the book Leo Africanus it is a fictionalized biography of a real person‚ Hasan al- Wazzan. Hasan and his family were forced to flee to Fez‚ where he grew up and became a very well-off merchant. The book really gives a clear picture of his family life as a child‚ his education‚ his marriages‚ his travels‚ and his bitter- sweet reminiscence of exile. The narrator of Amin Maalouf’s historical novel‚ Hasan al-Wazzan - who
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Book Summary: Built To Last Built To Last by James Collins & Jerry Porras What has enabled some corporations to last so long‚ while other competitors in the same markets either struggle to get by‚ or fade away after a short period of time? This is the major question that Mr’s Collins and Porras try to answer. They took a look at 18 well known‚ well established and healthy companies (’visionaries’)‚ and compared them to a counterpart in their specific area of business. They analyzed all the information
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Book Review Are we Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America Introduction Are we Rome? Will America’s rise to world leadership last for a thousand years? Or will our nation come to ruin‚ like the great Empire of ancient Rome? What lessons does Rome teach us? These questions have haunted Americans since the founding of the new nation in 1776‚ and they are still with us today. While some may look to Rome as an inspiration‚ others believe it casts a dark shadow over America’s national
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Pencilface is an experimental documentary by Christian Simmons that displays a simplistic art style. We meet our nameless main character. She is a fairly young girl playing in what seems to be an abandoned lot. The colors are very earthy. Shades of green and brown are displayed. Even on the character we see she has long brown hair that matches her short‚ plain‚ neutral toned dress. The other character that we meet‚ Pencilface‚ is a bright yellow number 2 pencil. The main character finds the pencil
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JuN Professor N/A ENGL 1307.741 5 July 2013 Book Reviews have Feelings too Academic writing is basically writing you will start in college. Once entering an academic community with similar ways of thinking‚ speaking‚ and writing‚ it is important to also develop the skills to do these things in order to have a higher level of educational learning and to join others in conversational studies. Like any other types of writing‚ academic writing has many types of genre that follow under it. These
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