making a murderer.....netflix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxgbdYaR_KQ
Stuff to watch
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marksmeets302
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Interesting, especially when it came to the 'superforecasters'. For those who are put off by the long length of the video: Only a very small minority of people can actually come up with any useful predictions, although the vast majority of people think they can. And there is a method to useful forecasting: gather data, separate the data in distinct classes and look what that would say individually, then aggregate and come to a conclusion. Kahneman contrasts this with intuition, which invariably fails. He also said that there is some evidence that this works better than a wisdom of crowds approach.
Also liked what he had to say about big data.
Also liked what he had to say about big data.
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convoysur-2
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Great documentry,not so good for the guy locked up,but its a must watch,i couldent stop watching i did the 10 hours in one day,
https://kickass.unblocked.li/usearch/ma ... %20murder/
Just watched the Billions pilot, on
http://couchtuner.city/5/billions-s1-e1-pilot/
(my 15 yr old set it up for me .. stunning what they find on the net .. )
Anyway .. its excellent .. am looking fwd to more episodes.
http://couchtuner.city/5/billions-s1-e1-pilot/
(my 15 yr old set it up for me .. stunning what they find on the net .. )
Anyway .. its excellent .. am looking fwd to more episodes.
Did anyone watch the Derren Bown programme last night - pushed to the edge?
really interesting experiment about social compliance any how we respond to authority and suggestion
It makes you wonder how when we are bombarded with information each day how easy it is to go astray and make what can be life changing wrong decisions
really interesting experiment about social compliance any how we respond to authority and suggestion
It makes you wonder how when we are bombarded with information each day how easy it is to go astray and make what can be life changing wrong decisions
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marksmeets302
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Just watched 'the big short'. Very good movie. Selena Gomez explains what a synthetic CDO is.
Especially the end perfectly caught the atmosphere when things really went down the drain.
Especially the end perfectly caught the atmosphere when things really went down the drain.
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andyfuller
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Here she is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PNvIHSUdLg
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steven1976
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Enjoyed the first couple of episodes of Billions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sYBpNxZ__o
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?search=billions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sYBpNxZ__o
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?search=billions
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andyfuller
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The Brain with David Eagleman - Who Is in Control?
Link to series, past episodes and upcoming: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06yjrdp/episodes/guide
Thursday 9pm - BBC4
Series in which Dr David Eagleman takes viewers on an extraordinary journey that explores how the brain, locked in silence and darkness without direct access to the world, conjures up the rich and beautiful world we all take for granted.
This episode explores the great deception that greets us each morning when we wake up - it feels as though we are in conscious control of our lives, but in fact almost every action we take, every decision we make, every belief that we hold is driven by parts of the brain that we have no access to.
Dr Eagleman reveals the electrical storm of unconscious neural activity that accompanies even the simplest of actions. We meet a patient who has lost the ability to walk without consciously controlling every movement. If he's distracted for even a moment he will fall.
To demonstrate the proficiency of the unconscious brain, Dr Eagleman competes with a 10-year-old world champion in the sport of cup stacking. Wearing EEG caps to record their brain activity reveals that although the champion is performing at much greater speed and precision, his brain is almost at rest. When a skill sinks below the level of conscious, controlling this allows for much greater speed and efficiency.
Dr Eagleman reveals that everything from who we find attractive to how we describe the relationship we have with our mother can be influenced by factors that we have no conscious control over. But the unconscious has a dark side, as the story of Ken Parks - who killed his mother-in-law in his sleep - demonstrates. Our consciousness is needed to arbitrate between competing systems in the brain that, left to their own devices, are liable to run amok.
Dr Eagleman ends with a brief journey through free will, and the deep question of whether we have any conscious control over our lives. Although there is tantalising evidence that we can feel as though we are consciously in control when we are not, the experimental jury is still out on whether or not free will is an illusion. However, free will or no free will, the human brain's extraordinary complexity guarantees that life will never feel predictable.
Link to series, past episodes and upcoming: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06yjrdp/episodes/guide
Thursday 9pm - BBC4
Series in which Dr David Eagleman takes viewers on an extraordinary journey that explores how the brain, locked in silence and darkness without direct access to the world, conjures up the rich and beautiful world we all take for granted.
This episode explores the great deception that greets us each morning when we wake up - it feels as though we are in conscious control of our lives, but in fact almost every action we take, every decision we make, every belief that we hold is driven by parts of the brain that we have no access to.
Dr Eagleman reveals the electrical storm of unconscious neural activity that accompanies even the simplest of actions. We meet a patient who has lost the ability to walk without consciously controlling every movement. If he's distracted for even a moment he will fall.
To demonstrate the proficiency of the unconscious brain, Dr Eagleman competes with a 10-year-old world champion in the sport of cup stacking. Wearing EEG caps to record their brain activity reveals that although the champion is performing at much greater speed and precision, his brain is almost at rest. When a skill sinks below the level of conscious, controlling this allows for much greater speed and efficiency.
Dr Eagleman reveals that everything from who we find attractive to how we describe the relationship we have with our mother can be influenced by factors that we have no conscious control over. But the unconscious has a dark side, as the story of Ken Parks - who killed his mother-in-law in his sleep - demonstrates. Our consciousness is needed to arbitrate between competing systems in the brain that, left to their own devices, are liable to run amok.
Dr Eagleman ends with a brief journey through free will, and the deep question of whether we have any conscious control over our lives. Although there is tantalising evidence that we can feel as though we are consciously in control when we are not, the experimental jury is still out on whether or not free will is an illusion. However, free will or no free will, the human brain's extraordinary complexity guarantees that life will never feel predictable.
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andyfuller
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lol - I had missed the series up until now so plan on catching up on the other episodes and recording the future ones. They seem quite relevant to trading and how we make decisions.
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andyfuller
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The Toughest Horse Race in the World: Palio
BBC Four - 9pm Sunday 07/02/2016
The Palio is the oldest horse race in the world, and turns the Italian city of Siena into a high-stakes battleground of strategy, intrigue and simmering machismo. In the eye of the storm stand the jockeys - adored if they succeed, despised if they fail.
This film follows the legendary maestro Gigi Bruschelli, winner of 13 races and master of the intrigues that surround the Palio, and his former protégé Giovanni Atzeni, a handsome young contender driven by a fearless passion to become number one. It exposes the notoriously closed world of this ancient race and the larger-than-life personalities of those involved in an epic and cinematic tale of Italian life in microcosm.
BBC Four - 9pm Sunday 07/02/2016
The Palio is the oldest horse race in the world, and turns the Italian city of Siena into a high-stakes battleground of strategy, intrigue and simmering machismo. In the eye of the storm stand the jockeys - adored if they succeed, despised if they fail.
This film follows the legendary maestro Gigi Bruschelli, winner of 13 races and master of the intrigues that surround the Palio, and his former protégé Giovanni Atzeni, a handsome young contender driven by a fearless passion to become number one. It exposes the notoriously closed world of this ancient race and the larger-than-life personalities of those involved in an epic and cinematic tale of Italian life in microcosm.
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CLOWNSHOES
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