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How to Predict Everything

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

How to Predict Everything

By William Poundstone

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About the book

How do you predict something that has never happened before?There's a useful calculation being employed by Wall Street, Silicon Valley and maths professors all over the world, and it predicts that the human species will become extinct in 760 years. Unfortunately, there is disagreement over how to apply the formula, and some argue that we might only have twenty years left.Originally devised by British clergyman Thomas Bayes, the theorem languished in obscurity for two hundred years before being r...Show more

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9781786075710

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Oneworld Publications

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2019

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How to Predict Everything

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