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I link at the source of this anecdote at the end of my essay on I-Ching: https://www.pa-mar.net/Lifestyle/I-Ching.html

Here is the direct link if you don't care about my stuff (it has been featured on HN already)

http://statweb.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/papers/thinking.pd...



Thanks for that source, a talk by frightfully brilliant Stanford mathematician and magician Persi Diaconis. It contains another cute anecdote:

> One of my most endearing memories of the great psychol- ogist of decision making under uncertainty, Amos Tversky, recalls his way of ordering in restaurants: “Barbara? What do I want?”


;) the whole piece is really a fantastic read.




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