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> Why do we fear being lied to? Because we don’t like others manipulating our beliefs. But our fear of being misled by false news pales by comparison to our fear of suffering total…

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Ramanujan was extra-terrestrial. His note books have produced so many papers and PhD theses. Probably will continue to do so for many more years.

> American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc. (hereinafter together "Pfizer") have agreed to pay $2.3 billion, the largest health c…

Apologies. I would like to delete the comments, but unable to.

There is also no group other than big pharma that have paid as much criminal fines in the history of commerce. So instead of cultivating a religious faith in whatever they are push…

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Your comments are a bit harsh and naive. One cannot look to paid entertainment professionals for moral and ethical guidance. Nor can we hold them to higher standards than mere mort…

> this is how business often operates on a day to day basis - vague objectives with recognition for effort and process, instead of the actual result. That's a good point. Perhaps, …

China is the new bogey man. We always need someone to hate to rally the troops (and to keep them distracted).

A leader shows direction(s) and has followers i.e. those that execute. To show direction, one needs to know his stuff well. Many qualify for this. Getting followers that execute is…

Higher suicide rates in themselves might not be an evolutionary handicap. They probably get far more stuff done relative to the ones that are emotionally closer to females and live…

> What a different world we’d live in if more boys felt safe sharing feelings, in their own way, right from the start. What if it turned out to be a world much worse than what we h…

Markets are about information processing. The information set is huge and price update has bandwidth limitation. GPT-n like systems perhaps can increase that bandwidth by orders of…

I hope this does not swing back harder in the other direction.

This is some far left nutcase conspiracy! Trump derangement syndrome is real and deserves a place in DSM manual.

I prefer well written comments and short variable names to long, descriptive variable names. A bit like how math textbooks are written. Of course, this is in the context of profess…

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Unfortunately, we gave them record, windfall profits with no downside or obligations by forcing drugs on people under threats of ostracisation and loss of employment. Now we don't …

Very well written. AD is like magic and this is a good exposition on the basic building block. I quite like Jeremy's approach: https://nbviewer.org/github/fastai/fastbook/blob/mast…

Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.

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