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082			_a158.1 _bTAL-B
100			_aTaleb, Nassim Nicholas
245			_aThe black swan : _bthe impact of the highly improbable _cby Nassim Nicholas Taleb
260			_aLondon : _bPenguin, _c©2010
300			_axxxiii, 444 p. : _bill. ; _c20 cm.
505			_aThe 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
650			_aUncertainty (Information theory)--Social aspects
650			_aForecasting
650			_aUncertainty (Information theory)
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