Bias are good or bad? Are we inherently failed thinking machines? Not so fast, and read it slow: goodreads.com/book/show/1146…
Yes, we are rational, and, yes, we make decisions that look very irrational. Humans have to make fast decisions, and all the time in situations that are not the clean labs. goodreads.com/notes/13062120…
#quote Expert intuition strikes us as magical, but it is not. Indeed, each of us performs feats of intuitive expertise many times each day.
#quote Conflict between an automatic reaction and an intention to control it is common in our lives.
The world is complicated, the universe? more. But as a bit more prescience than the rest of life on Earth we have tools to figured it out: goodreads.com/book/show/5456…
Some encyclopedism is not bad: our thinking systems need information to make slow and fast decisions. Is the world really today that bad? Not so fast: history goes in circles most of the time and zigs zags, but last 80 years have a clear trend: ourworldindata.org/much-better-aw…
This book goodreads.com/book/show/3489… shows that we had learn to improve the state of 7 billions and the world in general
And to learn more about what's good, bad and could be really improved this book is the continuation goodreads.com/book/show/3971…
Putting all together last Pinker's book goodreads.com/book/show/5622… published in the middle of COVID pandemia is a great antidote to biases that will push you into conspiracy thoughts
But could it be possible to have some formal models to help you put your thoughts and bias into good use? This is my last recommendation: goodreads.com/book/show/3908…
#quote Mr Macron also faces a problem that responsible politicians always face when running against populists. He offers policies boringly grounded in reality. They say whatever will stir up voters, whether or not it is true
I updated my #Flickr album on Black and White experiments. Adding a few pictures and sorting again. Adding a short snippet of the story behind the pictures flic.kr/s/aHsmVx3vdh
In 2014 just a few months after arriving in #France we visited #Normandy and the #D-Day landing beaches. Omaha Beach is one, the most (in)famous. The image of the perfectly aligned tombs in the cemetery impacted me and haunts me since then flic.kr/p/2nc2D8g
Amigo y ex colega, en IT, Maxi, como le decimos, ha decidido comenzar un podcast de porqué algunos de sus amigos y conocidos han decidido irse. Ya lleva 3 episodios! Aquí el primero: open.spotify.com/episode/3A1kgw…
this is not working collaboratively in the Cloud!!! This is a mess!
If your changes are rejected by the server, or you loose your changes, the workaround? "Send an instant message or e-mail to the other authors letting them know about the changes you want to keep" WTF!!!!
Seguí caminando hacia mi viejo departamento y en Córdoba y Pasteur doblé y visité de nuevo la #AMIA dónde el ataque terrorista del 18 de julio de 1994 dejó 85 muertos y 300 heridos
Fue el peor ataque terrorista en la Argentina y el mayor contra la comunidad judía luego del fin de la 2da guerra. Aún sigue sin resolver y los que planificaron y ayudaron a realizarlo siguen libres.