#Randomness

Dave | A Sharp Mind...

How Randomness Can Liberate You:A short thread Our brains are pattern-seeking and agency-detecting.We like order & control.We are naturally egotistical and self-referential.We are terrible at differentiating between correlation & ca

rememedankartes

Ok we ain't getting anywhere with one. But "free will" or "determinism"? Majority of our actions are determined. Cause and effect in work here. Past affects the future. We always

Gitabushi the Anti-Fascist

Kind of toying with the idea of writing a trolling time travel story.See, the thing that makes time travel stories work is the main character remembers what was erased by

Clément Canonne

Also, neat trick related to the Poisson distribution ... if you take n i.i.d. samples from some discrete p, then the # times you see domain elem'ts are not independent

Matthew Yglesias

I guess it is offensive to the part of our brains that wants to construct narratives out of things, but it seems pretty clear that there’s a healthy dose of

I'm sure this is something most of you already know but I find interesting pointing out at one topic I've realized using @drawbotapp While reading "The Nature of Code" and

I'd like to share my thoughts over day trading (10x, 100x etc.) and long term trading. Dear all, it is scientifically proven that your success over the day trade is

UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH: The conflation of "luck" and "randomness" is one of the most intellectually lazy things we do in our society. Time for a thread 1) Randomness (or random

TaylorPearsonMe

I just got an email from a reader with a background in Bogleheads/Vanguard/Value investing philosophy.They were looking for the best resources for understanding portfolio theory/diversification and risk.This is what I

Nicole Andersen

Having all this downtime, I decided to sort through and organize cards I no longer want. There are far too many to post, so I’ll start a thread of the

FuturesTrader71

FuturesTrader71

Traders: The holy grail of trading and the best advice I can give you about trading futures is below...#ES_F #trading #futures 1) Your job is align with the market. It

I want to do a thread here on something I find hard to talk about. Not for any emotional reason; just that I find we don't have adequate words in

𝗗𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗗 is threading his feed

DavidCrandall_W

Why I believe Roam is Antifragilea thread by yours trulyhttps://twitter.com/roamhacker/status/1308503256495202306 Quick recap on Antifragile:There is a concept that a spectrum exists measuring things weakened by stress (fragile), unaffected

it's all a drag

Once again I'm tired of randomness in what I "consume". I think I've been slacking with film watching because I felt I was being too random and not really 'taking-things-in'.

Betting PODCAST

THREAD: General thoughts and observations interviewing 125 different people in the betting world.(1/17) Know Your LimitationsBetween (1) analysis/handicapping, (2) bet execution and (3) bankroll management, be able to identify your

Courtney Milan 🦖

This is really exciting for many reasons, in large part because (despite Asimov’s...many...issues) FOUNDATION was one of the sci fi series I truly geeked out on as a kid, and