odysseanproject

@odysseanproject

Physicist Gell Man said we need an 'Odyssean' education, 'integrative thinkers' who can take 'a crude look at the whole.' This feed has links on this theme

Joined January 2012

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  2. WATCH: This could be our last chance to save the NHS. Vote Leave on 23 June.

  3. Good & useful blog by J Portes re immigration & HMT assumptions

  4. 2,000 down, probably only another 1,000,000,000,000 to go, give or take a factor of 10

  5. forecasting tournaments attract the more open-minded. But playing in tournaments also makes one more open-minded (too risky to be closed)

  6. Semantic maps of the brain, showing common structure across subjects via

  7. A nice short overview of the recent Nature paper on semantic mapping of the brain using fMRI

  8. 4/ Crucial battleground now same as 6 months ago. What do ~20% think of relative risks viz jobs, family living standards, public services?

  9. 3/ My guess, stress guess, is Obama may have been powerful if understated. Being so aggressive maybe a mistake. Our focus groups = negative

  10. In reply to

    . 'Obama drops the John Donne bomb. Killer.' When data blows up your assumptions - reflect a la , don't get touchy

  11. In reply to

    . I've said for 9 months NHS wd be central & on the ground it is. Don't let West Wing cloud your judgement comrade!

  12. In reply to

    . b/ you, like et al, badly misjudged Obama so you need a new narrative - so 'VL seized on NHS'. All wrong

  13. In reply to

    . Except a/ we launched on NHS & have delivered millions of leaflets on it, so your column based on false assumptions...

  14. The post-Obama polls won't get much coverage cos pundits = emotionally invested in the opposite story & need an excuse to reverse ferret

  15. 3/3 post-Obama polls show shift > Leave. Loving West Wing inversely correlates with pundit accuracy, cc ?

  16. As per what I said yesterday, SW1 often misjudges things like Obama - 2 polls now out both showing swing to Leave:

  17. No 10 briefed anyone who would listen that they won last week - then polls swing against them - typical hubris. Long hard fight ahead

  18. We had 9(!) papers accepted at ICML 2016 - congrats to the team! See our publications page for the pdfs:

  19. 3/ Many pundits wrongly think fears on NHS/immigration are 'right wing' or 'core'. No. They are felt strongly across political spectrum

  20. 2/ We launched on the NHS, our first leaflet - given to millions - was on the NHS, we will keep focus on NHS from now til 23 June

  21. 1/ I remember SW1 reaction to 9/11: overwhelming belief wd help pro-€ cmpgn. Polls showed strong opposite. SW1 has overbought Obama hype too

  22. David Keith has changed his mind on solar. W/ many interesting details on why.

  23. 8/ The 20% who will decide the election are focused on their jobs & NHS not 'influence' & geopolitics...

  24. 7/ Our side shd not attack Obama for speaking, nor focus on Anglosphere sentimentality, but focus on UK living standards as swing voters do

  25. 6/ London exaggerates Washington's interest in EUR now. It is focused on Asia, economy, technology much more than EU politics

  26. 5/ If you assume Obama right that UK in EU makes EU better for US: it doesn't follow it's also in UK interests. Often our interests diverge

  27. 4/ State Dptmnt has maintained its attitude post '91. Pentagon & intel services more sceptical viz EU but obv v complex opinions in D.C

  28. 3/ Whitehall missed chance to get ahead of Monnet & do deal with Erhard, man behind postwar German recovery who wanted free trade deal

  29. 2/ Washington thought, reasonably: integrating EUR good for econ recovery & security viz Stalin, & UK in will make it << French, >> sensible

  30. 1/ Obama comments latest in long trend since late 1940s & Dean Acheson's decisions on European Coal & Steel Community/NATO/ Marshall Plan

  31. I think Obama wrong re UK/US interests but he makes a case that our side should answer, not complain he's made it

  32. The deceptions behind George Osborne’s Brexit report. My blog:

  33. Superforecasters' aggregated probability of 'Remain' winning the referendum: 69%

  34. Osborne can't predict next year. His prediction for 2030 as accurate as reading tea leaves. OBR created cos HMT forecasts so rubbish

  35. odysseanproject followed , and
    • @FuentesDeOnoro

      Colleague of the late USAF Col John Boyd; Research into the foundations of Boyd's strategy; RYT-200; Author (Certain to Win, If We Can Keep It);

    • @mattwridley

      Author, rational optimist, Times columnist, Wall Street Journal contributor, Tory peer, Northumbrian. Keen on science, scepticism, genes, ideas having sex.

  36. David Cameron - the Ratner of UK politics, his sales pitch = 'the EU is crap, we're too rubbish to do better'...

  37. It would be (X) for the NHS if Britain left the EU: Good: 32% (+2) Bad: 14% (+3) [No diff.]: 33% (-3) (via YouGov / 11 - 12 Apr)

  38. Some exciting superforecasting news- we're going to be sharing a daily updated forecast straight from the aggregated Super feed

  39. Applied genomics: the genetic "super cow":

  40. . Congratulations Yuri Milner. This is how all human beings should be thinking.

  41. The character traits valued most by elite scientists:

  42. Landing from the chase plane

  43. Chinese team reports gene-editing human embryos to introduce HIV-resistance mutation

  44. In mid-19th century, James Clerk Maxwell suggested undersea kites to help lay down early transoceanic cables. If only there'd been DARPA!

  45. EU works well for ppl who are rich enough to have offshore trusts like the PM, it doesn't work well for the rest of the public

  46. 2/ So BBC gets story but if they accept No10 deal they cannot speak to a Govt opponent before breaking the story

  47. 1/ Cos papers so hostile No10 doing stories like tonight on 'no approach' basis with broadcasters hoping for better coverage

  48. No10 must be v panicky re offshore trusts given they're deliberately starting a row over abuse of taxpayers' £ on EU

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