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Games
scientists play
“When
mathematicians and physicists are left alone in a room, one of the games
they’ll play is called a Fermi problem, in which they try to figure out
the approximate answer to an arbitrary
problem,” said Rebecca Saxe, a cognitive neuroscientist at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology who is married to a physicist.
“They’ll ask, how many piano tuners are there in Chicago, or what
contribution to the ocean’s temperature do fish make, and they’ll try to
come up with a plausible answer.” [full
article]
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Why bankers are better than consultants
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