ITConversations has an interview with Nassim Nicholas Taleb about his new book The Black Swan (which I am sadly too swamped to read right now but will post when I have). Taleb talks about the effect of a world where rare and unforeseen phenomena (which he calls “Black Swans”) shape much of the world in [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Nassim Nicholas Taleb on IT Conversation
Posted in biases, statistics on May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Schneier on Rare Risks
Posted in biases, data mining, statistics on May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Bruce Schneier started out as a cryptography expert but he came to realize that most security problems are caused by everything but the military grade encryption technology he studied. Now he writes about real world security and a lot of this is related to how people overreact to security issues that are rare events and [...]
