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Loading... Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be SmartTwilight collectors edition by Stephanie Meyer
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres
Yes Man by Danny Wallace
A Spy by Nature by Charles Cumming
The Water's Lovely by Ruth Rendell
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
... 6. Super Crunchers, Ian Ayres, 2008
Had two interesting snippets on how analysing lots of data can improve public policy making and medical diagnoses. ... Taking Pictures.
I've read a quick speculative fiction by John Wyndham The Chrysalids and a non-fiction book Super Crunchers. Both were quick reads. I found Super Crunchers, had two interesting snippets. ... Simon Winchester
2. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Barbara Kingsolver
3. Patrick White, David Marr
4. Super Crunchers, Ian Ayres
5. The Brain that Changes Itself, Norman Doidge (20/01/09)
6. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, A ... OC: The Emperor Jones EX: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Super Crunchers ... /08
2001: A Space Odyssey ***
by Arthur C. Clarke
7/22/08
The Emperor Jones ***½
by Eugene O'Neill
7/22/08
Super Crunchers (#165) ***½
by Ian Ayres
7/23/08
Cannery Row *****
by John Steinbeck
7/24/08 ... ***
2. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion *****
3. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris ***½
4. Supercrunchers by Ian Ayres ***½
5. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami ***½
6. The Gulag Archipelago: Vol. 2 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ... Got the following books (for free) from work:
Super Crunchers (advance copy)
people of the book by geraldine brooks (advance copy)
look me in the eye by john elder robison (advance copy)
bridge of sighs by richard russo
FREAKING TOUCHSTONES! ... The Eye: My Life With Asperger's (advance reader's copy)
Bridge Of Sighs
People Of the Book (advance readers copy)
Super Crunchers (advance readers copy)
*touchstones are wonky
I'm going back to sleep now, until work.
I am reading (and nearly done with) Cass Sunstein's Infotopia: how many minds produce knowledge and Ian Ayres' excellent Super Crunchers. Briefly, the first is about the success and failure of knowledge aggregation in markets, democracies, deliberative groups, collaborative sites and the like; ...
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