On the Edge
by Nate Silver · first published 2024
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How some people — including poker players, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists — analyze and navigate risk, and why it’s important.
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On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore (http://bit.ly/11KMaT Amazon). Commodore has been kind of ignored in computing history, but they were the first company to sell 1 million units. This book…
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on “Ask HN: Best non-fiction book you read in 2024?” ↗…impoverished Africa. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36260719-dictatorland Magic Pill - Johann Hari - About Semaglutide and how people got fat. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201319612-magic-pill On the Edge - Nate Silver - About how seeing the world in terms of risk and expected value can work. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/204236707-on-the-edge Orbital - Samantha Harvey - Booker Prize winner about…
on “Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?” ↗…estimate. Similarly, we only have a 50-60 samples of years in which it was possible to have a nuclear exchange, so a fairly small sample size, but we can still get a noisey estimate. But I haven't read On The Edge yet, so I don't know exactly what Silver does here. >> This is kind of the point being made. > Was it? I think they meant that all of the solutions people invented to prevent nuclear war and which…
on “Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930” ↗I was reading Nate Silver's book "On The Edge" and there is an interesting part where he takes predictions on the usage of nuclear weapons taken from just after World War 2 and compares them to what the Bayesian prediction would be given what actually…
on “Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930” ↗