Policy Tensor Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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(4) The authors to read on the Soviet-German war, and Soviet military art is general, are David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House. The big one is, of course, When Titans Clashed. But 'August Storm' is the fascinating account of the greatest operational maneuver in history. https://t.co/A0IRRMO3l3

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The greatest Sanskritist alive is Wendy Doniger. The Hindus is probably her magnum opus. It has yet to be surpassed as a socio-cultural monograph on ancient India. 2/ https://t.co/RBpof4LYm4

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Hey NYU peeps. You have access to War and the Engineers : The Primacy of Politics over Technology by Keir A. Lieber. Could you please share? DM me?

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@StephenDasien @ingogun I don't know anyone who has read The Sorrows of Young Werther. Maybe @njtmulder. Have you read Goethe man? But yeah, it's up on the list. Pretty high. Might even make it that far in before I die. I have some unresolved issues about the viability of my reading list.

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«The president of the Council of Foreign Relations, Richard Haass: “Just days ago much of the world was focused on the unwanted prospect of regime change in Ukraine,” he tweeted. “Now the conversation has shifted to include the possibility of desired regime change in Russia.”»

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“In time-keeping, in trading, in fighting men counted numbers; and finally, as the habit grew, only numbers counted.” Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization.

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(4) The authors to read on the Soviet-German war, and Soviet military art is general, are David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House. The big one is, of course, When Titans Clashed. But 'August Storm' is the fascinating account of the greatest operational maneuver in history. https://t.co/A0IRRMO3l3

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A story told by Prado in his Advances in Financial Machine learning (compulsory reading for quants) captures the phenomenon really well. He talks about how you could find a whole mountain of silver or gold in the sixteenth century like Potosi. Nowadays, big discoveries of …

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@mathtick @RassBariaw There is much to commend the Solomon Brothers' 'flows view'. See Michael Howell's (@crossbordercap) very interesting book, Capital Wars. Working off of that got me closest to "timing markets". See my https://t.co/WRPYgsaWIf. https://t.co/bNQY4ZbOPt

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@Left_Hegelian Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas is unsurpassed as a meditation on the neoliberal self. Looking forward to your take when you’re done reading.

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