All-time bear opening paragraph for a textbook lmao.

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I’m way past school, just reminiscing about what a nightmare that course was.

The irony is I barely passed statistical mechanics, then did an undergrad research project in it :S

Then I did a PhD in an adjacent field :S :S

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You might like this book then: https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=80870A46C30082AE01E3A6056C09975F

Blurb:

In this unusual study, Farjoun and Machover attempt to do nothing less than rebuild two central concepts of political economy: price and profit. Using a probabilistic-statistical approach, they redefine both of these notions and then proceed to a discussion of relations between ‘labour value’, price and profit. Theories of probability and statistics are, of course, well-established in all natural and population sciences, but with one or two notable exceptions, have been largely overlooked by political economists. By treating the capitalist economy as ‘a large and disorderly collection of moving objects’, Farjoun and Machover succeed in resolving many of the contradictions that arise between the rigidity of certain analytical schemas and the wealth of empirical observation supporting them.

Laws of Chaos is a challenging, innovative work, signalling a marked departure form the duality of Marxist and Sraffian approaches.

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I am not nearly nerdy enough to read that. What are the main takeaways?

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new Junji Ito just dropped

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“this statistical analysis was made for me”

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the following pages contain depictions of non-euclidian geometry and unpronouncable ramblings

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“This is statistical mechanics why are there metric tensors here?!” Actual statement by me in university.

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That’s fucking gnarly omg

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If a book isn’t threatening me, then I cannot learn.

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Always reminds me of the forward to the scsh manual.

https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html

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Jack n Zac

:data-laughing:

Death to America

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My department chairman, a manager who gives one new insight into and sympathy for disgruntled postal workers?

:meow-knit: :meow-knit:

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So you probably couldn’t get away with that here 28 years in the future.

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