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100 | _aTaleb, Nassim Nicholas | ||
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_aThe black swan : _bthe impact of the highly improbable _cby Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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_aLondon : _bPenguin, _c©2010 |
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_axxxiii, 444 p. : _bill. ; _c20 cm. |
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505 | _aThe 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. 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. 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. Half and half, or how to get even with the black swan Epilogue : Yevgenia's white swans | ||
650 | _aUncertainty (Information theory)--Social aspects | ||
650 | _aForecasting | ||
650 | _aUncertainty (Information theory) | ||
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