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Pluralistic: The seductive, science fictional power of spreadsheets (29 Apr 2023)


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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 29, 2023May 1, 2023Categories UncategorizedTags cdos, collateralized debt obligations, contrafactuals, el doctorow, false precision, fingerspitzengefühl, gedankenexperiments, great financial crisis, models, parables, prediction, qualitative factors, quantization, red team blues, science fiction, spreadsheets, the map is not the territory, warnings1 Comment on Pluralistic: The seductive, science fictional power of spreadsheets (29 Apr 2023)

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