When it came to 1967, she used to tell to me how she and my mother (who was only a little girl at the time) crammed into a Blue VW Beetle along with nine other family members (from four generations), leaving their house in Tulkarem to seek refuge in her native Nablus.
As such, the burn-in was set to discard the first three million generations, leaving 7,000 trees sampled for estimation of posterior probabilities (pp).
"On paper, it seems ironic: one generation leaves a country, the next generation returns to the same country.
Far from Denver and Boulder, there are many places where an atmosphere of decline has lasted for two or more generations, leaving a profound impact on the outlook of young people.
Maybe their mishpocheh made a mean matzoh ball soup, but the watered-down version three generations later leaves me nostalgic for Jewish New York past.
Larry Summers, one of the most brilliant economists of his generation, left Washington nine years ago as an outgoing Treasury Secretary celebrated for having helped to create the boom of the nineteen-nineties.
"Not only will I leave no trace of my existence behind, there won't even be anything from my entire generation left in another fifty years, just some fucking stupid shit in a museum, maybe".
