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A model, after all, is an abstract representation of some process.

Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil

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You don't need to understand all the details of a system to know that it has failed.

Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil

Instead of searching for the truth, the score comes to embody it.

Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil

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Truly, fortune's displeasure is but sluttish.

All’s Well That Ends Well by Shakespeare

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, goo and ill together.

All’s Well That Ends Well by Shakespeare

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To Do Tuesday 28ᵗʰ September

Linear Algebra and Linear Programming Lecture

Work (10:00-13:00)

Write up Graph Theory Notes

Write up LALP notes

Read The Seven Dials Mystery

Read Weapons of Math Destruction

Duolingo

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To Do Monday 27ᵗʰ September

It’s my first day back at university, so let’s see how well I cope.

Work (09:00-11:00)

2x Graph Theory Lectures

2x Linear Algebra and Linear Programming Lectures

Write up lecture notes

Read the Secret of Chimneys

Read Weapons of Maths destruction

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When self-control problems and mindless choosing are combined, the result is a series of bad outcomes for real people.

Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein - Nudge

Our understanding of human behaviour can be improved by appreciating how people systematically go wrong.

Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein - Nudge

In vino veritas.

Nietzsche

Pereat mundus, fiat philosophia, fiat philosophus, fiam!

Nietzsche

A married philosopher belongs in comedy, that is my proposition - and as for the exception Socrates - the malicious Socrates, it would seem, married ironically, just to demonstrate this proposition.

Nietzsche

Placed above the gateway of his hell the inscription "I too was created by eternal love" - at any rate, there would be more justification for placing above the gateway to the Christian Paradise and its "eternal bliss" the inscription "I too was created by eternal hate" - provided a truth may be placed above the gateway to a lie!

Nietzsche

How do you take advantage of someone's habits without letting them know you're studying every detail of their lives?

Charles Duhigg - The Power of Habit

Every profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. The latter may hurt his vanity but the former his hear, his sympathy, which always says: "Alas, why do you want to have as hard a time as I did?"

Nietzsche

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get over their stupidities too.

Nietzsche

Quidquid luce fuit, tenebris agit.

Nietzsche

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