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Explain Yourself!
In Mind Games. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 54–54 (2010)
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Day 25, Explain Yourself! task of trying ‐ to predict one's day what mathematicians call ‐ ‘sensitive dependence on initial conditions’ things in life ‐ varying in unpredictable ways, and non‐linear ways Looking at the matter with 20/20 hindsight ‐ human nature to always look of patterns, scientist and investor alike
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