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Title: The Doomsday Calculation
Author: William Poundstone
Narrator: Kyle Tait
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
Release date: 10-15-19
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 60 ratings
Genres: Mathematics
Publisher's Summary:
In the 18th century, the British minister and mathematician Thomas Bayes devised a theorem that allowed him to assign probabilities to events that had never happened before. It languished in obscurity for centuries until computers came along and made it easy to crunch the numbers. Now, as the foundation of big data, Bayes's formula has become a linchpin of the digital economy. But here's where things get interesting: Bayes's theorem can also be used to lay odds on the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence, and on the biggest question of all: how long will humanity survive?

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