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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Black Swans and the Domains of Statistics

Black Swans and the Domains of Statistics Nassim Nicholas Taleb 1. INTRODUCTION The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (hence TBS) is only critical of statistics, statisticians, or use...
  • avisolo published this 11 / 16 / 2009
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Common Errors in Interpreting the Ideas of The Black Swan and Associated Pape

Common Errors in Interpreting the Ideas of The Black Swan and Associated Papers N. N. Taleb, NYU Poly Institute October 18, 2009 Summary of the problem discussed in The Black Swan (and associated ...
  • avisolo published this 11 / 16 / 2009
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What Led to the Financial Meltdown?

A great article from Joe Nocera of the NYT on the failure of formal risk management methods in the Sub-prime Crisis (Jan 2009)
  • lukeo published this 10 / 31 / 2009
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Interplay Between Narrative Fallacy - Cinema - And History

An essay talking about how the narrative fallacy creeps into people's analysis of history (through the medium of film) and how people's notions of history are usually flawed.
  • jfmcphillips published this 06 / 25 / 2009
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Nassim Taleb - The Fourth Quadrant

Statistical and applied probabilistic knowledge is the core of knowledge; statistics is what tells you if something is true, false, or merely anecdotal; it is the "logic of science"; it is the inst...
  • felix_wonderful_cat published this 12 / 04 / 2008
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Black Swan Glossary

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
  • epignosis published this 03 / 30 / 2008
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