正題名/作者 : The black swan :/ Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
其他題名 : the impact of the highly improbable /
作者 : Taleb, Nassim.
出版者 : New York :Random House Trade Paperbacks,c2010.
面頁冊數 : xxxiii, 444 p. :ill. ;21 cm.
附註 : Originally published in hardcover and in slightly different form by Random House in 2007.
標題 : Uncertainty (Information theory) - Social aspects. -
ISBN : 081297381X (pbk.)
ISBN : 9780812973815 (pbk.)
ISBN : 9780679604181 (ebook)
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500 $aOriginally published in hardcover and in slightly different form by Random House in 2007.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [400]-429) and index.
505 0 $aPrologue -- Umberto 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 -- Postscript essay: on robustness an fragility, deeper philosophical and empirical reflections. Learning from mother nature, the oldest and the wisest ; Why I do all this walking, or how systems become fragile ; Margaritas ante porcos ; Asperger and the ontological black swan ; (Perhaps) the most useful problem in the history of modern philosophy ; Fourth quadrant, the solution to that most useful of problems ; What to do with the fourth quadrant ; Ten principles for a black-swan-robust society ; Amor fati: how to become indestructible.
520 $aExamines the role of the unexpected, discussing why improbable events are not anticipated or understood properly, and how humans rationalize the black swan phenomenon to make it appear less random.
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