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Hannah Fry: The Mathematician Who Knows Uncertainty Is Unavoidable

Medicine and the Machine

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What Statistics Can and Can't Tell Us About Ourself?

You wrote a piece in the New Yorker, what statistics can and can't tell us about ourselves. The deadline for that was the day that I got diagnosed with cancer. In my head they are all of these stories are very connected, because I think that as humans, we are. You have to really be careful to train yourself to realize that there is irreducible randomness right?

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