• Posts Tagged ‘Probability’

    The Past Is As Weird As The Apocalypse

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    We are certainly living in interesting times. But it appears we have always lived in interesting times and that we have traditionally been pretty poor at recognising this. One has to wonder just how voluminous the evidence for a rewrite of the dominant narrative of civilisation has to be before we can drop the...

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    Volume Is The Best Magical Strategy

    by  •  • Black Hat Life Hacks, Life, Magic • 6 Comments

    KË?ln Panorama

    In August I came within a single day of being fired. If the CEO hadn’t been on holiday in Tuscany at the time I probably would have been out the door. (His first question to my boss when he came back to Hamburg was “why is Gordon still working for the company?”) And part...

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    The Hamburg Conjecture: A 98:2 Magical Ratio

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    When my father came to visit recently for my birthday, the topic of his AIDS hospice work in the 1980s came up in conversation somehow. (To be clear, this wasn’t actually at the party because, you know… downer.) This was the terrifying dark ages of a genuinely horrible disease. A lot of medical professionals...

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    Magic Secrets As Taught By Robot Fish

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    Robofish_Attack

    Want to see what shoaling looks like? Proper shoaling, that is… the thing fish do. In this case, sticklebacks. Go and watch this video of scientists testing out whether a shoal of wild fish would follow an artificial leader. Of particular interest in the companion article is: Robofish moved faster than the real fish,...

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    The Omnivorous Magician: Success Magic Requires Both Hunting And Gathering

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    global_wealth1

    In one of my first ever sales jobs, my boss told me there are two types of sales people: hunters and farmers. Hunters went out and got new business -big flashy deals- while farmers got under the skin of existing clients and extracted year-on-year growth from their spend. Both have different probability spreads and...

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