jackhammer2022
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Comment · 7 years ago
I haven't gone through your link yet, but sounds like Survivorship Bias here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Comment · 9 years ago
Alex Honnold does not experience fear like the rest of us: http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-wor...
Comment · 9 years ago
I like - A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William Irvine, provides a good overview of stoicism.
Comment · 9 years ago
Also here's the Feynman algorithm[1]:
- Write down the problem.
- Think real hard.
- Write down the solution.
This article not only falling for survivorship bias but also confirmation bias [2]
1: http://wiki.c2.com/?FeynmanAlgorithm 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Comment · 9 years ago
Do you stick a budget for your WFH rentals? How long do you rent for?
Comment · 9 years ago
So Survivorship Bias in play in this article?
Comment · 10 years ago
Google cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1qK6xyT...
Ipython notebook used: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/com.cambridgecoding.stude...
Comment · 10 years ago
There's https://github.com/jaredks/rumps for Python.