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Albert Cory's avatar

You wrote about black swans, and didn't even mention "The Black Swan" a best-selling book by Nessim Nicholas Taleb?

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Paul G Fisher's avatar

Thanks for mentioning Albert! Haven’t read it. Will check it out.

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Albert Cory's avatar

This is me, introducing him at Google. He was very nice. Don’t believe what people say about him! That’s only if you try to prove you’re smarter than he is (unlikely).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3REdLZ8Xis

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Bob Gilbreath's avatar

One of my favorite quotes from The Black Swan popped for me today:

"Nobody would pay one dollar to buy a series of abstract statistics reminiscent of a boring college lecture. We want to be told stories, and there is nothing wrong with that—except that we should check more thoroughly whether the story provides consequential distortions of reality."

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