Mapped: The 10 U.S. States With the Lowest Real GDP Growth
“Delaware witnessed the slowest growth in the country, with real GDP growth of -1.2% over the year as a sluggish finance and insurance sector dampened the state’s economy.”
“There are a few pretty big takeaways here. For one, the fact that agriculture takes up almost half of habitable land. Humankind has, over the past 1000 years, turned 120,000 square kilometers of wild habitat into farmland — an area equal to the USA 13 times over.
That, of course, makes agriculture the absolute number one cause of deforestation and our planet’s diminishing biodiversity.”
Concentration of measures:
Talagrand's "work illustrates the idea that the interplay of many random events can, counter-intuitively, lead to outcomes that are more predictable, and gives estimates for the extent to which the uncertainty is reigned in."
"En opposition avec l’automatisation du traitement de grand jeux de données qui prévaut actuellement, l’analyse causale affirme que toute conclusion statistique est assujettie à un ensemble d’hypothèse sur les relations causales entre les variables – hypothèses qui ne peuvent être formulées que par un humain ayant des connaissances extérieures sur la signification de ces variables et les relations qui les lient."