Tom Chivers Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Tom Chivers

Many people are saying that How to Read Numbers, by Tom and David Chivers, is the perfect example of a maths book written for – and indeed by – people who don't know very much maths: https://t.co/Hlob1GzU50 https://t.co/xXmpGHnqec

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A childish science writer writes: I'm trying to find a particular bit in John Venn's The Logic of Chance, and I've learnt that when he talks about a coin coming up heads, he calls it "giving head". "If it gives head I receive one pound." "However many times head may be given."

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sounds like Roald Dahl's got better at replying to letters since he died. I wrote to him c.1989, drew a picture of a pheasant from Danny the Champion of the World on it and everything, never heard back, not that I'm bitter https://t.co/fNijHzFukg

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My review of Matt Ridley and Alina Chan’s book Viral, on the lab leak hypothesis https://t.co/NfgiP2CDcG

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@ciphergoth @2_trenchcoat @jessesingal If you get a large enough sample size there’ll be statistically significant correlation between any two variables. I guess there will be some “cause” but it won’t always be explicable or interesting (screenshots from Bernoulli’s Fallacy by Aubrey Clayton) https://t.co/OYHnuxCoO0

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My review of Matt Ridley and Alina Chan’s book Viral, on the lab leak hypothesis https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/3b5ebf06-456d-11ec-aa43-5cc5157b09b9?shareToken=44669a83853e447333dad0203558537a

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who needs Randall Munroe's What If… when you can simply read James Milner https://t.co/mEQWevNDID

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@mattrowlandhill I think this is just too big an inferential gap to be able to explain by Twitter. If you genuinely find this interesting, try my book, or Human Compatible, or maybe The Precipice by Toby Ord (for added "why nuclear weapons probably aren't an *existential* threat")

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@mattrowlandhill no it's the opposite of them changing: It's that they'll do exactly what they've been told to do, but in unpredictable and potentially disastrous ways. And it's been thought about quite carefully by serious people! Stuart Russell's Human Compatible is apparently very good on this

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Do this! It’s a really strange sensation (from Chris Frith’s book Making Up The Mind) https://t.co/l71yWFPFjr

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