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Great quote from the highly recommended Marginal Revolution about the fine line between brilliance and lunacy. The original quote is from an article in the NYT.
Speaking of dinner, when the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt
told a friend, a Parisian doctor, that he wanted to meet a certifiable
lunatic, he was invited to the doctor’s home for supper. A few days
later, Humboldt found himself placed at the dinner table between two
men. One…
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Très belle citation sur le très bon Marginal Revolution au sujet de la limite très floue entre le génie et la folie. La citation est reprise à partir du New York…
Nouveau post : le génie et la folie http://bit.ly/cSW81
A recurring theme these years is the Wisdom of Crowds meme, from the eponymous book by James Surowiecki: the average opinion of a great number of uninformed people is often better than the informed opinion of a few experts. .
The book is not short on examples to support its point of view, from
the weight of a cow at a farm show to the sales forecast at an IT
manufacturer. It even led to the creation of a wealth of companies
dabbling in prevision…
Un des thèmes récurrents de ces dernières années a été la Sagesse des Foules, une idée extraite du livre éponyme de James Surowiecki
: en moyennant l’opinion…
New post : the wisdom of a random guy http://bit.ly/5ThG2
Nouveau post : la sagesse d’un parfait inconnu http://bit.ly/46Ir56 (en français)
This is an icon: girl doesn’t want to let go of father going to war http://twitpic.com/kmtgg ; via @alipasha #iraq
Des publicitaires piégés par des images subliminales http://bit.ly/14grRk