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The black swan : the impact of the highly improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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- Summary
- Examines the role of the unexpected, discussing why improbable events are not anticipated or understood properly, and how humans rationalize the black swan phenomenon to make it appear less random
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Extent
- xxxiii, 444 p.
- Note
- "Originally published in hardcover and in slightly different form in the United States ... by Random House in 2007."-T.p. verso
- Contents
-
- Prologue
- Umberto Eco's antilibrary, or how we seek validation. The apprenticeship of an empirical skeptic ; Yevgenia's black swan ; The speculator and the prostitute ; One thousand and one days, or how not to be a sucker ; Confirmation shmonfirmation! ; The narrative fallacy ; Living in the antechamber of hope ; Giacomo Casanova's unfailing luck : the problem of silent evidence ; The Ludic fallacy, or the uncertainty of the nerd
- We just can't predict. The scandal of prediction ; How to look for bird poop ; Epistemocracy, a dream ; Appelles the Painter, or what do you do if you cannot predict?
- Those gray swans of Extremistan. From Mediocristan to Extremistan and back ; The bell curve, that great intellectual fraud ; The aesthetics of randomness ; Locke's madmen, or bell curves in the wrong places ; The uncertainty of the phony
- The end. Half and half, or how to get even with the black swan
- Epilogue : Yevgenia's white swans
- Postscript essay: on robustness an fragility, deeper philosophical and empirical reflections. Learning from mother nature, the oldest and the wisest ; Why I do all this walking, or how systems become fragile ; Margaritas ante porcos ; Asperger and the ontological black swan ; (Perhaps) the most useful problem in the history of modern philosophy ; Fourth quadrant, the solution to that most useful of problems ; What to do with the fourth quadrant ; Ten principles for a black-swan-robust society ; Amor fati: how to become indestructible
- Isbn
- 9780812973815
- Label
- The black swan : the impact of the highly improbable
- Title
- The black swan
- Title remainder
- the impact of the highly improbable
- Statement of responsibility
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Examines the role of the unexpected, discussing why improbable events are not anticipated or understood properly, and how humans rationalize the black swan phenomenon to make it appear less random
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Taleb, Nassim
- Dewey number
- 003/.54
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- Q375
- LC item number
- .T35 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Uncertainty (Information theory)
- Forecasting
- Label
- The black swan : the impact of the highly improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Note
- "Originally published in hardcover and in slightly different form in the United States ... by Random House in 2007."-T.p. verso
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [400]-429) and index
- Contents
- Prologue -- Umberto Eco's antilibrary, or how we seek validation. The apprenticeship of an empirical skeptic ; Yevgenia's black swan ; The speculator and the prostitute ; One thousand and one days, or how not to be a sucker ; Confirmation shmonfirmation! ; The narrative fallacy ; Living in the antechamber of hope ; Giacomo Casanova's unfailing luck : the problem of silent evidence ; The Ludic fallacy, or the uncertainty of the nerd -- We just can't predict. The scandal of prediction ; How to look for bird poop ; Epistemocracy, a dream ; Appelles the Painter, or what do you do if you cannot predict? -- Those gray swans of Extremistan. From Mediocristan to Extremistan and back ; The bell curve, that great intellectual fraud ; The aesthetics of randomness ; Locke's madmen, or bell curves in the wrong places ; The uncertainty of the phony -- The end. Half and half, or how to get even with the black swan -- Epilogue : Yevgenia's white swans -- Postscript essay: on robustness an fragility, deeper philosophical and empirical reflections. Learning from mother nature, the oldest and the wisest ; Why I do all this walking, or how systems become fragile ; Margaritas ante porcos ; Asperger and the ontological black swan ; (Perhaps) the most useful problem in the history of modern philosophy ; Fourth quadrant, the solution to that most useful of problems ; What to do with the fourth quadrant ; Ten principles for a black-swan-robust society ; Amor fati: how to become indestructible
- Control code
- ocn213400968
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Extent
- xxxiii, 444 p.
- Isbn
- 9780812973815
- Lccn
- 2010292618
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Label
- The black swan : the impact of the highly improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Note
- "Originally published in hardcover and in slightly different form in the United States ... by Random House in 2007."-T.p. verso
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [400]-429) and index
- Contents
- Prologue -- Umberto Eco's antilibrary, or how we seek validation. The apprenticeship of an empirical skeptic ; Yevgenia's black swan ; The speculator and the prostitute ; One thousand and one days, or how not to be a sucker ; Confirmation shmonfirmation! ; The narrative fallacy ; Living in the antechamber of hope ; Giacomo Casanova's unfailing luck : the problem of silent evidence ; The Ludic fallacy, or the uncertainty of the nerd -- We just can't predict. The scandal of prediction ; How to look for bird poop ; Epistemocracy, a dream ; Appelles the Painter, or what do you do if you cannot predict? -- Those gray swans of Extremistan. From Mediocristan to Extremistan and back ; The bell curve, that great intellectual fraud ; The aesthetics of randomness ; Locke's madmen, or bell curves in the wrong places ; The uncertainty of the phony -- The end. Half and half, or how to get even with the black swan -- Epilogue : Yevgenia's white swans -- Postscript essay: on robustness an fragility, deeper philosophical and empirical reflections. Learning from mother nature, the oldest and the wisest ; Why I do all this walking, or how systems become fragile ; Margaritas ante porcos ; Asperger and the ontological black swan ; (Perhaps) the most useful problem in the history of modern philosophy ; Fourth quadrant, the solution to that most useful of problems ; What to do with the fourth quadrant ; Ten principles for a black-swan-robust society ; Amor fati: how to become indestructible
- Control code
- ocn213400968
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Extent
- xxxiii, 444 p.
- Isbn
- 9780812973815
- Lccn
- 2010292618
- Other physical details
- ill.
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