The Black Swan

Sampul Depan
Random House, 13 Okt 2009 - 366 halaman
In the author's point of view, a black swan is an improbable event with three principal characteristics - It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don't know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the 'impossible'.
 

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UMBERTO ECOS ANTILIBRARY OR HOW WE SEEK VALIDATION I
3
Yevgenicrs Black Swan
23
One Thousand and One Days or How Not to Be u Sucker
38
Confirmation Shmonfirmalion
53
The Narrative Fallacy
62
Living in the Antechamber or Hope
85
Giacomo Casanovas Untailing Luck
100
The Ludic Fallacy or The Uncertainty of the Nerd
122
THOSE GRAY SWANS OF EXTREMISTAN
212
The Bell Curve That Great Intellectual Fraud
229
The Aesthetics of Randomness
253
The Logic of Fractal Randomness with a Warning
262
Lockes Madmen or Bell Curves in the Wrong Places
274
The Uncertainty ot the Phony
286
Halt and Halt or How to Get Even with the Black Swan 295
297
Notes
311

WE JUST CANT PREDICT
136
How io Look for Bird Poop
165
Episiemocracy a Dream
191
Appelles ihe Painter or Whai Do You Do ii
201

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