We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes comfortable probability uncertainty
By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes. Nate Silver artificiallycurvedevelop Change image and share on social
Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie. Nate Silver amountcatcollection share on social
The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before. Nate Silver 000circulatedissemination share on social
Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different. Michael Mandelbaum buffeteconfusioncontrol share on social
Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that. Steven Chu centuryhighipcc Change image and share on social
Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing. Ani DiFranco addresscomfortabledenial share on social
