Word: truthfulness
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...bowler hats and portraits of eagles ossified into plants to his famous picture of a pipe, subtitled "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" (This is not a pipe). Language was a lifelong fixation for the artist. He felt that because it was used to represent the truth, it was a betrayal: his picture of a pipe was only a simulacrum of the real thing...
...also delivered some customary advice, suggesting that those in attendance make sure to have children and to find someone in their lives who “could look [them] in the eye and tell [them] the truth, every single time...
...predict securities prices perfectly. Relying heavily on this dataset and acting according to the outputs of the models would change economic parameters so that the original assumptions are no longer valid.“Unlike in the physical sciences, where with enough data you can learn what the truth is, in markets the truth is moving around a little bit,” Stein says.In a fundamentally uncertain world, placing too much faith in predictions, no matter how sophisticated, can be a mistake.“[People] think of us as having much better forecasting skills than we really...
...Truth be told, these sentiments did more to worry than to reassure me. I walked around for the next day wondering if I had done something stupid. “Brave,” as far as I could tell, meant reckless. I couldn’t shake what one of my roommates had told me when I mentioned my plans for the piece a few days before it was printed. “They’re going to come after you,” he had said. When I asked him who “they?...
...occasional “democratic socialist,” my answer stood out for its confession of the shared reason that we were all together at Harvard and in the upper room of 14 Plympton Street: “intellectual elitism.” That moment of truth occasioned for me a clarity that I did not recover until I sat down to write this word of farewell to a community that, with all its contradictions, I love with the love of family...