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The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p 56
NEGATIVE EMPIRICISM “…a series of corroborative facts is not necessarily...
Aug 27th
The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p 55
NAIVE EMPIRICISM “…we have a natural tendency too look for instances that confirm our...
Aug 27th
The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p 53-4
DOMAIN SPECIFICITY “…inability to automatically transfer knowledge and sophistication...
Aug 26th
The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p 52
A turkey is fed everyday but on the thousand and first day it becomes dinner…up until the last...
Aug 26th
The black swan (Nassim Taleb) P 40, 44,...
PROBLEM OF INDUCTION How can we know the future, given knowledge of the past? “…turkey...
Aug 26th
The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p 32-37
SCALABILTY AND 2 TYPES OF UNCERTAINTY 1. Mediocristan “When your sample is large, no single...
Aug 25th
The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p29-31
People with idea type jobs are at risk over people with labor type jobs eg singer vs baker Before...
Aug 25th
The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p28
” [A writer] does not have to write each book again every time someone wants to read it. But...
Aug 25th
The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p13
“The journal was purportedly written without…knowing what was going to happen next, when...
Aug 25th
We evolved in a world where our survival depended on an intimate knowledge of our surroundings. This...
Aug 24th