It's been almost six years since I last read Yuval Noah Harari's "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow". I remember when a colleague, who had just finished reading Sapiens, asked me if I recommended this sequel. My response was that this book did not leave as lasting an impression …

The inspiration for this exploration came from a Twitter (or X) post by Nassim Taleb:

In this article, I propose a simple method to quantify this "summary diversity" or "book dimensionality" using natural language processing (NLP) and a bit match approach. The process involves:

1. Collecting book review data. Since it's …

DDP vs GDP

I have read an interesting article about the Democratic Domestic Product (DDP)¹. There are many disputes and critiques regarding GDP, so I refer you to the details in this article. The main point is that GDP is not a good measure of individual well-being since its …

Nassim Taleb warns us of the dangers in misapplying linear statistical methods (e.g. regression, correlation) to compare a fat-tailed variable (e.g. wealth, income) to a thin-tailed one (e.g. IQ test scores) in his book "Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails". The fat tails - where the extremes lie and …