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020 $a9781400063512 (acid-free paper)
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035 $a(OCoLC)71833470
035 $a(OCoLC)71833470
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100 1 $aTaleb, Nassim.
245 14 $aThe black swan :$bthe impact of the highly improbable /$cNassim Nicholas Taleb.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$cc2007.
300 $axxviii, 366 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [331]-358) and index.
505 0 $aUmberto Eco's antilibrary, or how we seek validation. The 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 0 $aUncertainty (Information theory)$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aForecasting.
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