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A good story with a flawed ending.

评论: Kafka on the Shore

Generally speaking, it is a good story, with quite a few twists and turns. I find the music critics in the novel intruiging. How Oshima commented on Schubert's piano sonata - D960. How Hoshino fell in love with Beethove, especially his famous piano trio piece, Archduke. How the cafe owner interpr...(2回应)

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Fooled by Randomness (7)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb / Random House Trade Paperbacks / 2005-8-23 / USD 17.00

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If one were to perform an optimizing operation across a large collection of variables, even with a brain as large as ours, it would take a very long time to decide on the simplest of tasks. So we need...
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Good, enlightened (and "friendly") advice and eloquent sermons do not register for more than a few moments when they go against our wiring. The interesting thing about stoicism is that it pl...
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There is a saying that bad traders divorce their spouse sooner than abandon their positions. Loyalty to ideas is not a good thing for traders, scientists-or anyone.

The Velveteen Rabbit (1)

Williams, Margery/ Wilson, Katherine (ILT) / Ideals Pubns / $ 4.46

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"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you ...

The Pyramid Principle (7)

Barbara Minto / Financial Times/ Prentice Hall / 2005-2-23

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Analytical abduction C.S.Peirce's insight was that in any reasoning process you always deal with three distinct entities: - A Rule (a belief about the way the world is structured) - A Case (an ...
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To quote a kinsman of mine, Professor William Minto, who live in a more leisured era:"'In writing you are as a commander filing out his battalion through a narrow gap that allows only one man at ...
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This is, of course, the major purpose of summarizing a grouping - to glean an insight about which you can then think further, You will take that summary point and either find others like it (induction...