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So noise reduction could be a bad idea in these judgments, he argued. [27] Anticipating this critique, Kahneman, Sibony and Sunstein write in the book that noise reduction should ideally be followed by decision makers using the now-better judgment data together with their values and potential risk-avoidance criteria to make the optimal choice.
White Noise begins in the college town of Blacksmith. [5] The exact geographical setting of White Noise is unidentified, but elements of the novel evoke the Midwestern United States, especially the Rust Belt and Upper Midwest. The fictional Iron City shares its name with the Pittsburgh beer company of the same name. Critic John Pistelli wrote ...
NOiSE is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsutomu Nihei. It is a prequel to his ten-volume work, Blame!. Noise offers some information concerning the Megastructure's origins and initial size, as well as the origins of Silicon life. The book also includes Blame, a one-shot prototype for Blame!, which originally debuted in ...
Cover of Luigi Russolo's L'arte dei rumori, published in book form in 1916. The Art of Noises (Italian: L'arte dei Rumori) is a Futurist manifesto written by Luigi Russolo in a 1913 letter to friend and Futurist composer Francesco Balilla Pratella.
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don't is a 2012 book by Nate Silver detailing the art of using probability and statistics as applied to real-world circumstances. The book includes case studies from baseball, elections, climate change, the 2008 financial crash , poker, and weather forecasting.
Noise, Water, Meat draws upon some of Kahn's prior writing, including articles for October and The Musical Quarterly, and book chapters in Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant-Garde (MIT Press, 1992), In the Spirit of Fluxus (ed. Elizabeth Armstrong and Joan Rothfuss, Walker Art Center, 1993), and his PhD dissertation "Techniques and Tropes of Sound, Voice and Aurality in Artistic ...
Noise: The Political Economy of Music is a book by French economist and scholar Jacques Attali which is about the role of music in the political economy.. Attali's essential argument in Noise: The Political Economy of Music (French title: Bruits: essai sur l'economie politique de la musique) is that music, as a cultural form, is intimately tied up in the mode of production in any given society.
"Noise" is a science fiction story written by Jack Vance in 1952. Also known as Music of the Spheres , it was first published in the magazine Startling Stories in 1952. It is about a space voyager who is marooned on a beautiful alien planet that seems to have no other inhabitants.