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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.

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Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

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When a possibility is unfamiliar to us, we do not even think about it.

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We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

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There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.