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Bogdan Vaceanu retweeted
There are stuff in real life that cannot be transmitted in books and stuff in books you can never pick up in real life.
The disease is the inclination to learn from books what you must learn in real life and attempts to reinvent from experience what can only be found in books.
Bogdan Vaceanu retweeted
Happy 80th Birthday Christy.
"My life's work has been endowed with songs of struggle."
Bogdan Vaceanu retweeted
“The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.”
- Maryam Mirzakhani
Bogdan Vaceanu retweeted
What we've learned from LLM is that when your sample is monstrously large, induction can fool you as it becomes nearly indistinguishable from deduction.
Bogdan Vaceanu retweeted
The three most contagious diseases are measles, chickenpox, and status-conscious mediocrity.
Bogdan Vaceanu retweeted
In FooledbyRandomness, I stressed that to understand the world you need to nurture the skill in separating the anecdotal from the statistical, the noise from the signal, & the salient from the representative.
I am now adding the difference between information and propaganda.
Bogdan Vaceanu retweeted
Voodoo math that doesn’t always work.
A much better method en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trac…
Bogdan Vaceanu retweeted
25 books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:
1) Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Bogdan Vaceanu retweeted
—From my own library—
Some of these are written by the most influential mathematicians of the last century-Stefan Banach, Henri Cartan, Arnold, E. T. Whittaker, G. K. Bachelor, Georgi Shilov, Elias Stein.
Many of these have attained the status of “Bible” of the respective field.
