Tag: talk

RSA hosts Nate Silver in a talk about why predictions often fail and how to accurate filter through the noise of predictions. This talk, of course, is based off of Nate Silver’s book The Signal And The Noise.

An inspiring talk by Sue Austin about how the wheelchair has increased her ability to enjoy life and live unrestricted by the common perceptions of the wheelchair-bound. The video of her diving in the wheelchair is fantastic!

Nate Silver of the famed 538 political blog (which accurately called the recent Presidential election to an insane degree of perfection) is the latest author at Google to give a talk on his book The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail but Some Don’t. Man, I really want to read this book after [...]

Steven Johnson’s talk related to his book, Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter. A fantastic read by the way if you need a good book to pick up!