Weekend Reading Links: NBA, Less Wrong, Reservations, EV/EBIT, Becoming a Polymath, and More.

The Atlantic – The Four Horsemen May Charge Over The Earth — But Coca Cola Will Remain.

Farnam Street – Thomas Bayes and Bayes’s Theorem.

Aeon – Anyone Can Learn To Be A Polymath.

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Safal Niveshak – Life & Money Lessons From Kantilal.

Oddball Stocks – Completebankdata.com.  This is Nate from Oddballs Stocks new site that helps you to research banks with its great software instead of having to do all the searching yourself.

Greg Speicher – EV/EBIT Ratio Trumps P/E Ratio.

The New York Times – Treasure Hunters of the Financial Crisis.

Mises – Native American Reservations: Socialist Archipalego.  I found this article very interesting myself living within a few hours drive of some reservations and some of the poorest ones in the country at that.

Less Wrong – On Learning Difficult Things.  This site was recommended to me by Valueprax and is a site I have learned from since then.  I like to consider myself a pretty bright guy but the people who post on this site are at a completely higher level of smart.  Some of the topics and discussions (called sequences) on the main site include: Reductionism, ethics of artificial intelligence and the singularity, evolution, the philosophy of zombies (not the zombies you are thinking about), self-deception, rationality, quantum physics, etc.  If you like to think, read, learn, and you have an open mind this site is absolutely amazing.

Forbes – Revisiting The Greatest Sports Deal Of All Time.  An update to this article is below.

Bleacher Report – NBA Negotiating With The Silna Brothers To Remedy Their Egregious $300 million mistake.