A black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet we—especially the experts—are blind to them. In this second edition, Taleb has added a new essay, On Robustness and Fragility, which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world.
*2nd Edition, With a new essay: "On Robustness and Fragility"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has devoted his life to immersing himself in problems of luck, randomness, human error, probability, and the philosophy of knowledge. He managed to transform his interests into three successful careers, as a man of letters, businessman-trader-risk manager, and university professor. Although he spends most of his time as a flâneur, meditating in cafés across the planet, he is currently Distinguished Professor at New York University's Polytechnic Institute and Principal of Universa. His books Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan have been published in 31 languages. He is widely recognized as the foremost thinker on probability and uncertainty. Taleb lives mostly in New York.
“蝴蝶扇动翅膀, 在远方形成了风暴”,这句混沌学的名言陈冠希一定深有体会。一次电脑故障,弄出这么大的事情。他一定很后悔去修电脑了,或者去那家修电脑了,而不是拍了那些照片。那些照片原是可以很严实地被隐藏着,隔绝着,象气球里的空气或埋在地下的煤气管道。只是偶然...
评分『历史是由一系列稀有事件推动的』。这乍一看让人联想起被人民群众口诛笔伐的所谓精英主义,但你要仔细研究人类发展的历史,就会不得不折服于作者的论证。 虽然上层建筑为了统治的需要,会通过教育向基层人民灌输什么『天才来源于人民』等诸如此类的概念作为安抚,但作者实际...
评分“蝴蝶扇动翅膀, 在远方形成了风暴”,这句混沌学的名言陈冠希一定深有体会。一次电脑故障,弄出这么大的事情。他一定很后悔去修电脑了,或者去那家修电脑了,而不是拍了那些照片。那些照片原是可以很严实地被隐藏着,隔绝着,象气球里的空气或埋在地下的煤气管道。只是偶然...
评分(一) 在512汶川大地震后,民间关于“地震预测”的各种质疑和方法,纷纷出笼。而官方地震局和专家则坚守“地震的不可预知性”和“科学性”。双方是各执一词,互不买账。 我们不懂地震的小老百姓,就只好看热闹。看东风压倒西风,还是西风压倒东风。风风不相容? 其实在...
评分在历史浩瀚籍册文字掩盖下的,是另一种人类精神文明的真实。人类以确定性将认知垄断恰恰证明了没有记录下来的历史的不确定性的真实和未被认知的力量。 易说我、非我是道而变化万千,老子说一切皆从无中来,庄子说我怎么知道我梦见的我也在梦着我,孙子说每个我都要知道彼我还...
Idea好,但行文形散.In Extremistan world,vol不可靠因BS exist and their rarity lowers vol.应对负面BS:keep a diary to prevent burnout from 2nd guessing of past actions,defensive redundancies,keep it small,use barbell.正面BS:be an aggregate BS hunter (VC, publisher),max serendipity, invest in preparedness not predictability,trade duration for intensity in workout (?!)
评分Stop looking the gift horse in the mouth-remember that you are a black swan.
评分認同的觀點包括經濟學過度依賴數學模型忽略現實中複雜的因素而被NNT稱爲僞科學;Gaussian bell curve is intellectual fraud;那些所謂的expert往往穿西裝打領帶,但聼不聼他們的意見其實根本不重要(比如wall street analyst對於股票走勢的分析和預測)。總之對主流大學教授的經濟、金融、統計學一一炮轟,並結合了作者自己哲學的見地。
评分Stop looking the gift horse in the mouth-remember that you are a black swan.
评分I only bought this book to understand the jargon "black swan" mentioned in many works. This is an important book(because of its important idea), but it is too lengthy and a little tedious to some extent. It's better to learn this idea through some kind of book summary instead of plodding through the book itself.
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