Download or read book The Scout Mindset written by Julia Galef and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...an engaging and enlightening account from which we all can benefit."—The Wall Street Journal A better way to combat knee-jerk biases and make smarter decisions, from Julia Galef, the acclaimed expert on rational decision-making. When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls a "soldier" mindset. From tribalism and wishful thinking, to rationalizing in our personal lives and everything in between, we are driven to defend the ideas we most want to believe—and shoot down those we don't. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a "scout" mindset. Unlike the soldier, a scout's goal isn't to defend one side over the other. It's to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what's actually true. In The Scout Mindset, Galef shows that what makes scouts better at getting things right isn't that they're smarter or more knowledgeable than everyone else. It's a handful of emotional skills, habits, and ways of looking at the world—which anyone can learn. With fascinating examples ranging from how to survive being stranded in the middle of the ocean, to how Jeff Bezos avoids overconfidence, to how superforecasters outperform CIA operatives, to Reddit threads and modern partisan politics, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think.

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Download or read book Think Julia written by Ben Lauwens and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’re just learning how to program, Julia is an excellent JIT-compiled, dynamically typed language with a clean syntax. This hands-on guide uses Julia 1.0 to walk you through programming one step at a time, beginning with basic programming concepts before moving on to more advanced capabilities, such as creating new types and multiple dispatch. Designed from the beginning for high performance, Julia is a general-purpose language ideal for not only numerical analysis and computational science but also web programming and scripting. Through exercises in each chapter, you’ll try out programming concepts as you learn them. Think Julia is perfect for students at the high school or college level as well as self-learners and professionals who need to learn programming basics. Start with the basics, including language syntax and semantics Get a clear definition of each programming concept Learn about values, variables, statements, functions, and data structures in a logical progression Discover how to work with files and databases Understand types, methods, and multiple dispatch Use debugging techniques to fix syntax, runtime, and semantic errors Explore interface design and data structures through case studies

Download or read book The Stairway to Nowhere written by Brian Rush and published by Brian Rush. This book was released on 2010-01-09 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star Mages Book 1. A fantasy story set in the modern world. Two secret orders of powerful magicians. Two ex-lovers. One order is filled with idealistic zeal and a vision of utopia. He's in that one. The other is consumed with selfish ambition. She's in it. Can resuming their relationship be anything but insane? Especially when hidden plots threaten everything.

Download or read book You Can Trust Me written by Sophie McKenzie and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The suspicious circumstances of her best friend's apparent suicide drive a young woman to the possibility that it was murder, and might involve the same man who killed her sister eighteen years ago.

Download or read book God and Me Volume 3 Ages 10 12 written by Kathy Widenhouse and published by Tyndale House Publishers. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our best-selling God and Me devotional series just for girls is back! God and Me 3 is packed with cool stories and activities that will help you draw closer to God every day! Each devotion will show you how to walk with God and discover His promises for your life. So get started and learn more about Gods great love for you today

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Download or read book The Bad Mother s Handbook written by Kate Long and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BAD MOTHER RULE #1: NEVER, EVER, DO WHAT I DID! For seventeen-year-old Charlotte Cooper, it’s too late. Despite her best efforts to finish school, tune out her angry, slightly hysterical mother, and cope with her loving but dotty grandmother, she is unexpectedly (now that’s an understatement) pregnant. And don’t even mention the jerk who knocked her up. Charlotte’s mother, Karen, is trying to convince herself that there are worse things than becoming a grandmother at thirty-three. For instance, there’s wanting to kill Charlotte for the mess she’s made of her life. Between struggling to pay the bills and halfheartedly filling out questionnaires on Internet dating sites, Karen uncovers a scandalous family secret involving her own birth, and then falls back into bed with her sexy ex-husband. So much for perfect timing. In the meantime, Karen’s mother, Nan, is having a wee bit of trouble with names (sometimes her own). But that doesn’t keep her from retaining a few things she’d rather forget. Of course, Nan knows that everything will work out fine for Charlotte and the baby–these things usually do. Now, if only she could put the pieces of her own fragmented memory together, she might have an interesting tale or two to share. In this wickedly funny, disarmingly moving novel, three generations of mothers learn that it’s the simplest mistakes that can change your life forever. With wit and wisdom, Kate Long proves that there are as many kinds of mothers as there are daughters, but the love that binds them all is what truly matters.

Download or read book Thus Was Adonis Murdered written by Sarah Caudwell and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her personal copy of the current Finance Act is found a few metres away from a body, young barrister Julia Larwood finds herself caught up in a complex fight against the Inland Revenue. Set to have a vacation away from her home life and the tax man, Julia takes a trip with her art-loving boyfriend. However, all is not what it seems. Could he in fact be an employee of the establishment she has been trying to escape from? And how did her romantic luxurious holiday end in murder?

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Download or read book A Stabbing Death in Luxor written by Howard E. Hallengren and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stabbing Death in Luxor or the Further Adventures of Professor Hilary Tamar is essentially a murder mystery. The story is told entirely from the viewpoint of Professor Tamar who, along with five of her associates, all barristers in London, comprise a group which has solved several crimes in the past. Professor Tamar becomes suspicious of a client of one of the barristers and soon uncovers a $2.5 million embezzlement scheme. Before the crime is even discovered, one of the embezzlers drives away from a bank in Switzerland with $2.5 million in gold coins loaded in his car, waving to the bank officials as he leaves. Very shortly thereafter, one of the embezzlers is dead, and Professor Tamar begins a more thorough investigation of the embezzlement and this death. Since one the embezzlers is Egyptian, the story soon shifts to Luxor, Egypt, where Professor Tamar and associates soon assemble. A detailed investigation is described, at the conclusion of which the reader is given a possible solution to the more recent stabbing in Luxor, but is left with a question as to its actual cause. The reader is also left with the question as to what the proper pronouns should be for Professor Tamar.

Download or read book Deja Vous written by Dana Toutloff and published by Dana Louise Toutloff. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deja Vous is about the development of a cure-all formula and the consequences it has on a woman named Julie/Julia.Dr. Reisner mysteriously disappears after announcing the final proof of success of a serum that can cure all diseases and restore the body to health from any condition. FBI agents, GSA agents and other interested players looking for him and his formula go after Julie/Julia, who is known to have special connections with the doctor, especially after a few agents involved mysteriously die.GSA agent Roger Meyer discovers the truth that Reisner's serum can only be effective with women who meet certain conditions, and that Julie's blood has the only available working version of Reisner's creation. Having fallen in love with her, Roger vows to protect her from harm and keep her away from the dreadful fate of being incarcerated for life while serving with her blood all those who need what her blood can do.

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