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Not what i expected but a good read nonetheless

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It was on my wish list for years and i always pushed it off because i thought it would be a real snooze

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In fact it was an incredibly readable history of how problems of prediction and risk management have been handled starting with mathematicians trying to decide how to split up the prize of an unfinished game of balla

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Most of the reading is on people the problems they tried to solve and their brilliant approaches to solve the problem of uncertainty

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Also the book was written in 1998 and perhaps there wasnt much brewing yet in topics of big data machine learning or predictive algorithms

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Only 10 pages in i felt compelled to go to wikipedia to learn who peter l bernstein is

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The greeks and romans were no slouches – they were able to determine that the world was round and pull off engineering feats that required a pretty good knowledge of arithmetic

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They were handicapped by their numbering systems all of which resembled roman numerals