If you want to get an idea of what the book is all about, Taleb has posted several chapters and excerpts on Medium. Here’s one of them, on “The Logic of Risk Taking”:
Yes, I kinda gotten carried away by the hype. While NNT has just a couple of interesting points, what I relly like are the anecdotes of his interesting life or from his non-iconoclastic knowledge map.
I also use my Kindle for reading fiction, but not for non-fiction.
My holdup with non-fiction is that I find that the experience of reading a physical book helps me learn more effectively. I can write in the margins, underline, and dog ear pages. I can flip back and forth to reference previous chapters or notes, based on the visual cue of those markings and folds. And all of these books are mine forever, for me to reference years later.
I’m sure eBook readers will continue to get better and better, but for non-fiction books I plan to reference in the future, a physical book will be hard experience for eBook readers to beat.
It's interesting, I love ebooks readers for the same reason: I can highlight passages of the books, write notes, create as many bookmarks as I want and I can review and manage everything from the software perspective without having to wonder "Am I missing any note I made...?".
I also find that, for things like cookbooks and guidebooks, Post-it notes and the like work more effectively than bookmarks do. Pretty much the only time I buy those types of books in ebook format is when I find them for free or very cheap.
I first used swirl while taking several of the R Coursera courses from Hopkins. While the courses were fantastic, swirl was how I learned the material to be able to complete the assignments and projects.
I highly recommend using swirl if you're just getting into R.
Thank you for the heads up! I just reached out to volunteer.
On a related note, it would be fantastic to have a resource to discover research volunteer opportunities like this. It's almost impossible to find these types of research projects without having someone tip you off!
This reminds me of Season 4 of The Wire where Colvin runs a special classroom for the "corner kids" and sees promising results.
One of the big differences is that in The Wire they mentioned that high school kids weren't going to be impacted as much as the middle school kids they ended up doing the program with. This program seems to focus on high school, which is interesting (and exciting).
I think puls meant that Pennsylvania is a big state in the sense that Philadelphia is considered to be a part of the east coast while Pittsburgh (home of Carnegie Mellon) is often considered to be a part of the midwest.
In that sense, Pennsylvania is a big state. Perhaps "wide" is a better descriptor.
Pittsburgh is kind of a buffer between the east coast and the midwest. Architecturally, it feels more like an east coast city, but culturally it feels more midwestern.
The first thing I thought about while reading the article was minimalist classical music, like Philip Glass.
I think Glass does the repetitive/unexpected thing exceptionally well, though it's often subtle.
If you're already familiar with Glass (or if you like Beck) you might want to check out Beck's song from Rework, an album of remixed Glass: https://soundcloud.com/dunvagenmusic/nyc-73-78
It's repetitive, but has enough of the unexpected mixed in to make it a stimulating listen.
The second thing I thought about was Brian Eno and his attempt to 'learn' a sound recording of a city street by listening to the recording many times. He began to anticipate certain sounds and hear them as belonging to a structure.
I'm not finding a Web reference. It was described in a book by David Toop
The band Underworld has some old techno inspired by Glass. Dark, minimal. Very good if you like that kindof stuff. 'Second Toughest in the Infants' album-era.
I'd never heard of Rework_ before but I love Glass. Thanks for the link! In fact, I think this is now going to be a spur-of-the-moment extra christmas gift to my father.
