O元295030W Page_number_confidence 91.53 Pages 486 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211009120219 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 636 Scandate 20211008063919 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780141034591 Tts_version 4.Nassim Nicholas Taleb is “irritated,” he told Bloomberg Television on March 31st, whenever the coronavirus pandemic is referred to as a “black swan,” the term he coined for an unpredictable, rare, catastrophic event, in his best-selling 2007 book of that title. Half and half, or how to get even with the black swan - Epilogue : Yevgenia's white swansĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 08:14:14 Boxid IA40257224 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier 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. 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. 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. Umberto Eco's antilibrary, or how we seek validation. Includes bibliographical references and index

Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2007 Nassim Taleb explains everything we know about what we don't know, and shows us how to face the world

Black Swans underlie almost everything, from the rise of religions, to events in our own personal lives. 'The Black Swan' is a concept that will change the way you look at the world.

The black swan by nassim nicholas taleb