Automation, data, and geoscience — for practitioners who build things.
Look at 37% of your candidates. Reject all of them. Then pick the next one that beats everyone you've seen so far. This rule gives you at least a 37% chance of picking the single best candidate, no matter how long the...
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An Israeli Air Force instructor told Daniel Kahneman that praise made pilots fly worse and criticism made them fly better. He wasn't lying. He was watching regression to...
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In 1973 the University of California at Berkeley appeared to be discriminating against women. The aggregate admissions rate was 44 percent for men and 35 percent for women,...
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Junior explorers often live and die by the press release. So when one of these companies announces a drill result or a financing, does the stock actually move,...
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The county with the highest cancer rate in America is rural. So is the county with the lowest. Both extremes come from the same mechanism, and it isn't...
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