We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes calibrate estimate prediction
By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes. Nate Silver artificiallycurvedevelop Change image and share on social
Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie. Nate Silver amountcatcollection share on social
The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before. Nate Silver 000circulatedissemination share on social
It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour. Carol Bellamy childengageestimate Change image and share on social
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish. Rebecca Solnit airatmospherebig share on social
Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that. Steven Chu centuryhighipcc Change image and share on social