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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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Interesting how the author growing up in Lebanon, tipping from a peaceful equilibrium into civil war, tells his story of the world disregarding improbable events through oversimplification and overreliance on the bell curve
Trusting bell curve quantitative models is like picking pennies before a steamroller
Fascinating storytelling on a potentially dull narrative in respect to psychological challenges of humans to deal with highly improbable events.
More thoughts to follow 🦢🖤🧮
Trusting bell curve quantitative models is like picking pennies before a steamroller
Fascinating storytelling on a potentially dull narrative in respect to psychological challenges of humans to deal with highly improbable events.
More thoughts to follow 🦢🖤🧮
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Mar 28, 2023 03:05PM
Looking forward to your thoughts Henk. I bought this book on my lunchbreak the other week. It looks very interesting.
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As you can see, many readers were put off by the arrogance of the author. But stay with it because, overall, it's insightful (Daniel Kahneman tried to get Taleb to tone down the intro, but to no avail)
I must says his irreverent stabs at all kinds of professions initially had me thinking about if I really enjoyed the book, but in the end I think it doesn’t detract from the message and makes it rather unique
