Nicholas Nassim Taleb is popping up everywhere these days due to the publishing of his new book The Black Swan later this month. In Few and Far Between: Black Swans and the Impossibility of Prediction he writes about his thesis that rare catastrophic events (black swans) have a much larger effect on society expects because [...]
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Black Swans and the Impossibility of Prediction
Posted in biases, statistics on April 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Nicholas Nassim Taleb Interview in Wired
Posted in Uncategorized on April 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wired magazine has a short interview between James Surowiecki (who wrote the book The Wisdom of Crowds) and Nicholas Nassim Taleb, dicussing Taleb’s new book The Black Swan. Slate magazine had an interview in 2005 between James Surowiecki and Malcolm Gladwell (author of The Tipping Point and Blink). And to close the loop, Malcolm Gladwell [...]
