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The bed of Procrustes : philosophical and practical aphorisms / by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas,1960-(CARDINAL)352439;
Procrustes -- Preludes -- Counter narratives -- Matters ontological -- The sacred and the profane -- Chance, success, happiness, and stoicism -- Charming and less charming sucker problems -- Theseus, or, living the Paleo life -- The republic of letters -- The universal and the particular -- Fooled by randomness -- Aesthetics -- Ethics -- Robustness and fragility -- The ludic fallacy and domain dependence -- Epistemology and subtractive knowledge -- The scandal of prediction -- Being a philosopher and managing to remain one -- Economic life and other very vulgar subjects -- The sage, the weak, and the magnificent -- The implicit and the explicit -- On the varieties of love and nonlove -- The end -- Postface.
Subjects: Sayings.; Human behavior;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The black swan : the impact of the highly improbable / by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas,1960-(CARDINAL)352439;
Includes bibliographical references and index.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.'The Black Swan' is a concept that will change the way you look at the world. Black Swans underlie almost everything, from the rise of religions, to events in our own personal lives. Nassim Taleb explains everything we know about what we don't know, and shows us how to face the world.
Subjects: Uncertainty (Information theory);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The black swan : the impact of the highly improbable / by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas,1960-(CARDINAL)352439;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-358) and index.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.
Subjects: Uncertainty (Information theory); Forecasting.;
Available copies: 27 / Total copies: 35
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Fooled by randomness : the hidden role of chance in life and in the markets / by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas,1960-(CARDINAL)352439;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index.
Subjects: Chance.; Investments.; Random variables.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The black swan : the impact of the highly improbable / by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas,1960-(CARDINAL)352439;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-429) and index.Prologue -- 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.Examines 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.
Subjects: Forecasting.; Uncertainty (Information theory);
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Antifragile : things that gain from disorder / by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas,1960-,author.(CARDINAL)352439;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-504) and index.Prologue -- The antifragile: an introduction -- Modernity and the denial of antifragility -- Nonpredictive view of the world -- Optionality, technology, and he intelligence of antifragility -- The nonlinear and the nonlinear -- Via negativa -- The ethics of fragility and antifragility -- Epilogue"The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is a revolutionary vision from one of the most subversive and important thinkers of our time." -- Provided by publisher
Subjects: Complexity (Philosophy); Forecasting.; Uncertainty (Information theory);
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 18
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Skin in the game : hidden asymmetries in daily life / by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas,1960-author.(CARDINAL)352439;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The phrase "skin in the game" is one we have often heard but have rarely stopped to truly dissect. It is the backbone of risk management, but it's also an astonishingly complex worldview that, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows in this book, applies to literally all aspects of our lives. In his inimitable style, Taleb pulls on everything from Antaeus the Giant to Hammurabi to Donald Trump to Seneca to the ethics of disagreement to create a jaw-dropping tapestry for understanding our world in a brand new way.Introduction -- A first look at agency -- That greatest asymmetry -- Wolves among dogs -- Being alive means taking certain risks -- Deeper into agency -- Religion, belief, and skin in the game -- Risk and rationality -- Epilogue: What Lindy told me.
Subjects: Risk; Risk-taking (Psychology); Information asymmetry; Uncertainty (Information theory); Complexity (Philosophy); Risk behaviors.;
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 21
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Fooled by randomness : the hidden role of chance in life and in the markets / by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas,1960-author.(CARDINAL)352439;
If you're so rich, why aren't you so smart? -- A bizarre accounting method -- A mathematical mediation on history -- Randomness, nonsense, and the scientific intellectual -- Survival of the least fit : can evolution be fooled by randomness? -- Skewness and asymmetry -- The problem of induction -- Too many millionaires next door -- It is easier to buy and sell than fry an egg -- Loser takes all : on the nonlinearities of life -- Randomness and our mind : we are probability blind -- Gamblers' ticks and pigeons in a box -- Carneades comes to Rome : on probability and skepticism -- Bacchus abandons Antony -- Solon told you so -- Three afterthoughts in the shower."[Taleb is] Wall Street' s principal dissident... . [Fooled By Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther' s ninety-nine theses were to the Catholic Church." - Malcolm Gladwell, "The New Yorker" Finally in paperback, the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about the markets and the world. This book is about luck: more precisely how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill- the world of business- Fooled by Randomness" " is an irreverent, iconoclastic, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining exploration of one of the least understood forces in all of our lives. -- Publisher.Includes bibliographical references ( pages 293-306) and index.
Subjects: Investments.; Chance.; Random variables.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Antifragile [sound recording] : things that gain from disorder / by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas,1960-; Ochman, Joe.nrt;
Read by Joe Ochman.Shares philosophical insights into how adversity and chaos can bring out the best in individuals and communities, drawing on multiple disciplines to consider such topics as the superiority of city states over nation states, the drawbacks of debt, and why modern developments usually fail.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Complexity (Philosophy); Forecasting.; Uncertainty (Information theory);
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Fooled by randomness [sound recording] : the hidden role of chance in life and in the markets / by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas,1960-,author.(CARDINAL)352439; Pratt, Sean.nrt.;
Read by Sean Pratt.Contends that randomness and probability have a large impact on life, claims that people regularly fail to recognize that role, and tells how to differentiate between randomness in general and the financial markets in particular.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Chance.; Compact discs.; Investments.; Random variables.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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