January 2009
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman -- Richard...
The collection of stories presented in this book were truly an inspiration. For those of you unfamiliar with the author, Feynman is a Nobel prize winning theoretical physicist. He was on the Manhattan project at Los Alamos and helped to develop the atomic bomb. He went on to profess physics at Cornell, and contributed meaningfully in several other fields. The stories range from fixing radios as a...
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Super Crunchers - Steven D. Levitt
An introduction to statistics for the layman. The book begins with some fun statistical findings, which I enjoy. It was reminiscent of Freakonomics (which Levitt co-authored) in that sense. The only thing it adds to it is a verbose explanation of how “super crunching,” a.k.a. statistical analysis, is changing the world by making better predictions than a human expert would. About 10%...
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Post-College Dating
As a relatively new card carrying member of the “real world” (read: post-college), it has come to my attention that dating is basically not the same at all. In college, dating was easy. I was guaranteed to have several things in common with any girl on campus. At the very least we were both students and we were hanging out in the same place. More likely, we were studying related fields...