Econowmics

Illusion of control

“Perhaps the strangest thing about this illusion of control is not that it happens but that it seems to confer many of the psychological benefits...

Python Programming / Statistics

[Python] Catalan Numbers

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves....

Python Programming / Statistics / Terms and Concepts

Shakespeare’s Nightmare: Monkeys on Typewriters

If the monkey could type one keystroke every nanosecond, the expected waiting time until the monkey types out Hamlet is so long that the...

Cognitive Biases

End of history illusion

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. Julian Barnes, The Sense of an...