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+\chapter*{Acknowledgments}
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+To John...
+
+To my colleagues...
+
+To Tyler....
+
+To Claire...
+
+To Sam...
+
+To my parents...
+
+Finally, thank you to all humans who have and continue to undertake the ongoing free and
+responsible search for truth and meaning.  %
+Thanks to free software / free culture / open science advocates who have worked to create
+and share foundational tools and ideas, often at great personal opportunity cost.  %
+Thanks to thought leaders who have shown me what it means to have a good life without fully
+abandoning moral principles.  %
+And thank you to those who bravely speak truth to power.  %
+This universe is stranger, more terrible, and more fantastic than we want to believe.  %
+We must find ways to describe it's complexity without falling victim to the sometimes-overwhelming
+power of simple, ``useful'' narratives.  %
+
+\begin{dquote}
+  The explanatory stories that people find compelling are simple; are concrete rather
+  than abstract; assign a larger role to talent, stupidity and intentions than to luck; and focus
+  on a few striking events that happened rather than on the countless events that failed to
+  happen.
+
+  The ultimate test of an explanation is whether it would have made the event
+  predictable in advance.
+
+  Paradoxically, it is easier to construct a coherent story when you know little,
+  when there are fewer pieces to fit into the puzzle. Our comforting conviction that the world
+  makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
+
+  \dsignature{Daniel Kahneman \cite{KahnemanDaniel2013a}}
+\end{dquote}
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