"We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right,……" — Nate Silver

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• O truly enjoy... [a university], the individual-student or faculty-must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into… — Robin Winks
• Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed… — Luc Ferrari
• When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When… — Annie Dillard
• For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose… — Rebecca Solnit
• Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated… — Luc Ferrari
• I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a… — Derek R. Audette
• Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate… — Sarah Dessen
• To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it… — Richard Russo
• The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean… — Bruno Latour
• Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a… — Carl Sagan
• I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk. — John Scalzi

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