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Clara Listensprechen

Just don't make the mistake of calling it "predestination".

♲ earthling - 2024-05-09 01:30:01 GMT

Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World by Tom Chivers, 2024A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes's theorem and its global impact on modern life from the acclaimed science writer and author of The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy.

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At its simplest, Bayes's theorem describes the probability of an event, based on prior knowledge of conditions that might be related to the event. But in Everything Is Predictable, Tom Chivers lays out how it affects every aspect of our lives. He explains why highly accurate screening tests can lead to false positives and how a failure to account for it in court has put innocent people in jail. A cornerstone of rational thought, many argue that Bayes's theorem is a description of almost everything.</p><p>But who was the man who lent his name to this theorem? How did an 18th-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician uncover a theorem that would affect fields as diverse as medicine, law, and artificial intelligence?

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8.15K Posts, 41 Following, 650 Followers · ‘Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind,’ - Bertrand Russell

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kennychaffin@diasp.org
Kenny Chaffin

Just started this…man did it grab me…a couple of reviews below

“This Exquisite Loneliness is a transformative book for understanding this moment of collective isolation. Through his sharp-edged personal reflections, Deming interrogates powerfully and openly his own sense of aloneness as he weaves his discoveries with fellow writers, artists, and thinkers from Walter Benjamin to Zora Neale Hurston….Deming’s brave and searing prose…builds an eloquent case for staying with the discomfort as darkness becomes the passageway toward illumination.”
–Terry Tempest Williams

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/this-is-america/202310/loneliness-creativity-and-empathy

#books #nonfiction #loneliness #psychology

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https://www.amazon.com/This-Exquisite-Loneliness-Misunderstood-Creativity-ebook/dp/B0BRMK928X

Loneliness, Creativity, and Empathy

What’s the fundamental ambivalence in loneliness?

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kennychaffin@diasp.org
Kenny Chaffin

“Double perspective” is a term from Phillip Lopate, that I’ve found to be crucial in thinking about nonfiction. It’s about how every narrative has a double perspective because the now-narrator is always looking back at a prior self, whether that self was yesterday or twenty years ago. Or in other words, the now-narrator is always looking from an angle that is informed and shifted by time itself, and thus the narration — the perspective — of an event or memory changes as distance increases between our past selves and our current selves.

Beth Nguyen on navigating a double perspective.
September 20, 2023

https://link.lithub.com/view/602ea77d180f243d6532f731jihdu.g24/76588e76

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kennychaffin@diasp.org
Kenny Chaffin

Haiku

Just finished reading two haiku 'instructional' books over the weekend and can't say I recommend either one...a few brief minor gleanings in each but otherwise unremarkable. Better to just read and study haiku them selves IMO

Seeds from a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey: 25th Anniversary Edition: Revised & Expanded by Clark Strand

Three Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku by Natalie Goldberg

Both are more self-absorbed memoirs than helpful instructional books....but if your into that and the somewhat connection between zen and haiku then be my guest!

#books #haiku #nonfiction

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kennychaffin@diasp.org
Kenny Chaffin

Only because it's a new year and a new decade for me :)

I'm not much for marketing and tooting (pun!) my own horn, I write and do art mostly for my own pleasure and sharing it these days but I do self-publish (been a while since the last one) my Poetry, Prose Poetry, and other ebooks through Amazon.

My author page is at:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B007S3SMY8

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kennychaffin@diasp.org
Kenny Chaffin

New September Brevity issue

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Our September Issue
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Our newest issue features powerful essays from Daisy Hernandez, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, Julie Marie Wade, Shaindel Beers, Angela Morales, Jennifer Battisti, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Kristin M. Distel, Anna Vodicka, Mika Sutherland, Meg Senuta, Ralph Savarese, Heidi Fettig Parton, Tyler Mills, and Lori Jakiela. With the exquisite photography of Amy Selwyn.

https://brevitymag.com/

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