And yet any numerical probability, I will argue—whether in a scientific paper, as part of weather forecasts, predicting the outcome of a sports competition or quantifying a health risk—is not an objective property of the world but a construction based on personal or collective judgments and (often doubtful) assumptions. Furthermore, in most circumstances, it is not even estimating some underlying “true” quantity. Probability, indeed, can only rarely be said to “exist” at all.

The field of machine learning arose somewhat independently of the field of statistics. As a result, machine learning experts tend not to emphasize probabilistic thinking. Probabilistic thinking and understanding uncertainty and variation are hallmarks of statistics.

Some worried that the movie, rather than critiquing societal issues, might instead be painting an overly sympathetic portrait of a man whose descent into brutal villainy echoes the back stories of actual mass shooters.

when reading we can double back and re-read a word several times until it sticks (which according to some arguments may actually impair comprehension rather than increase it),

For me, I find audiobooks are great but only when given 100% of my undivided attention (so same as a book). In my personal experience, listening to an audiobook when driving, cleaning etc... has made me put down certain popular novels because my brain has been prioritising the job at hand and only sponging some audio narration in between making it easy to lose track of what's going on.