Word: surprisingness
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With a life so invested in music, Reddout’s academic interests are not surprising. A joint concentrator in Music and Anthropology, Reddout has managed to blend the two together into a unique cross-cultural investigation.
In a variation on a surrealist parlor game, a small group of Harvard students pass around a blank sheet of manuscript paper folded like a fan, each one writing a line of music without being able to read any more than the musical notes directly preceding it. After each composer...
“It was surprising that there was so much emphasis on how people are different and how to enjoy what people have to offer,” he said.
Their mixture of seriousness and good humor seems to be contagious, as does their affection. Feliz-Taveras proudly beams, “The one thing we stress is having the Eleganza family.” Around the room, the models sit and talk and smile. As the rehearsal winds down...
Considering these essential shortcomings, what is most surprising is that we still trust our models so much. The fact that the mirage of certainty has crept from economics into other disciplines is obvious enough: A famous Harvard government professor often complains that no data-heavy, model-driven graduate student gets...