http://www.metafilter.com/tags/fooledbyrandomness Posts tagged with 'fooledbyrandomness' at MetaFilter. Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:50:14 -0800 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:50:14 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/60763/The%2DBlack%2DSwan%2Dis%2Depisteriffic <a href="http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/"><i>The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable</i></a> by Nassim Taleb is out. Reviews in the <a href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110009979">Wall Street Journal</a>, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ferguson23apr23,1,6060713.column?ctrack=1&cset=true">LA Times</a>, and <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/824ac36c-f134-11db-838b-000b5df10621.html">Financial Times</a>. Just in time with those of us with a love of Hume's problem of induction, non-Gaussian distributions and financial intellectualism. Read an early draft of <a href="http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/GIF.pdf">chapter 16, <i>The Bell Curve, That Great Intellectual Fraud</i></a>. Read Taleb's <a href="http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/notebook.htm">"philisophical and literary notebook."</a> Then, in a feat of metanarrative rarely seen outside of Metatalk, read <a href="http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/gelman.pdf">his comments on comments on the book</a>. Previously on Metafilter: <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/59530/Susan-Sontag-on-the-moral-superiority-of-the-novel-amp-the-task-of-the-novelist#1624638">Languagehat has already made his thoughts on Taleb known</a>, it wasn't pretty, and someone with "vested interests in Taleb" <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/59530/Susan-Sontag-on-the-moral-superiority-of-the-novel-amp-the-task-of-the-novelist#1625236">responded</a>. Taleb, refreshingly, does not shy away from <a href="http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/blackswandebates.htm">debates</a> about his work. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.60763 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:50:14 -0800 blackswan fooledbyrandomness mandelbrot taleb geoff.