Completed Shelf: Recently Added

JamesMallory
Recent Activity
When he was two-years-old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of forty-six. These...
"If your objective is mainly to obtain information about Alzheimer's, then this isn't the best book for you, since it's way too long-winded and spends endless time recounting the search for cures that didn't pan out. Bottom line: there is no cure ..."
Permalink
What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of the new and familiar is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not. Computers, like us,...
From "one of the great (greatest?) contemporary popular writers on economics" (Tyler Cowen) comes a smart, lively, and encouraging rethinking of how to use statistics. Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse...