Sentences with phrase «by randomness by»

For investing, I'd have to add Capital Ideas by Peter Bernstein, Fooled By Randomness by Nasim Nicholas Taleb and Common Sense on Mutual Funds by John Bogle.

Not exact matches

By leaching out some of the randomness of traditional online dating, Hinge emphasizes dating over hook - ups.

Taleb, who grew up in Lebanon and used to work on Wall Street, published his first non-technical book, Fooled by Randomness, in 2001.

To produce the randomness, Ouroboros does this by a secure, multiparty implementation of a coin - flipping protocol.

Since that time, he has written a long - form essay broken into three books: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, and Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.

Howard Marks «Fooled by Randomness is a serious, intellectually sophisticated book, well worth reading carefully.

«Fooled by Randomness - I consider it one of the most important books an investor can read.»

Risk is randomness in which events have measurable probabilities, wrote economist Frank Knight in 1921 in Meaning of Risk and Uncertainty.1 Probabilities may be attained either by deduction (using theoretical models) or induction (using the observed frequency of events).

1 Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, 2nd ed., (New York: Thompson Texere, 2004), 61.

I could grab plenty more ICO fundraise charts but hopefully by now you've caught my drift: while ICO raises are sort of similar in that we usually see an initial rush of investors that gradually tapers off, with a little boost just before the sale ends, the initial two week - period of the Ethereum pre-sale looks more than merely typical, there's very little randomness in it — it looks perfect.

Other titles that got some love from VCs: Nassim Taleb's Fooled by Randomness and Good to Great by Jim Collins.

Sometimes we refer to «constrained randomness», but what you probably mean by random usually isn't what's going on in evolutionary dynamics.

«13 Randomness is somehow domesticated by these open systems.

But when any scientist «explains» any event or series of events by appeal to randomness or chance, he is not doing science.Randomness has no inherent intelligibility.

The ultimate randomness of the Universe and all its bodies flying about via the process of «gravity» shows quite clearly that if you get in the way of gravity as it exists in the outer region or by chance we will get hit by something huge is NOT a good design.

The apparent randomness as well as the struggling and unpredictable meanderings that science sees in evolution, and which have caused so much theological controversy, are just what we should expect if the world is in some way left to be itself by the non-interfering goodness of a self - emptying God.

Some scientists have so struggled with the extreme improbability of the conditions for life resulting from randomness that they go so far as to dream up theories of parallel universes to explain the problems presented by simple math on the likelihood of random chance.

To state a disbelief in true randomness in nature by saying «God deosn't play dice» is just a metaphor and one that caused a whole lot more trouble than it was ever worth.

Wouldn't you agree that it's a bit more ego - centric to believe that an all - powerfull divine being created humans in his image, rather then acknowledging that we're all unimportant continuous chemical reactions that coalesced by pure randomness?

there's really no room for the concept of an independent entity possessed of «will» in a worldview shaped by cause and effect; the only place for «will» to retreat to is the zone of true randomness, of complete uncertainty, which means that truly free will as such must be completely inscrutible [sic]... Statistical laws govern the decay of a block of uranium, but whether or not this atom of uranium chooses to fission in this instant is a completely unpredictable event — fundamentally unpredictable, something which simply can not be known — which is equally good evidence for the proposition that it's God's (or the atom's) will whether it splits or remains whole, as for the proposition that it's random chance.

If you mean that we counter creationists arguments that evolution runs counter to the second law of thermodynamics by saying that that law only applies to heat transfer and randomness in a closed (gaseous) system, well, that is true.

If all is to be conceived by analogy with our human nature, then either Spinoza is right and the eternal, immutable essence of the cosmic soul necessitates everything in the cosmic body, and there is no chance, randomness, or genuinely open alternatives either within the world or as between this and other possible worlds; or there is freedom both in our decisions and in God's.

Intervening in the game's randomness, he seeks to re-establish some balance by rigging the dice so that they kill the responsible pitcher (Jock Casey).

All of this randomness of the universe, you know the one with the rules that seem to complement each other so well... almost like it was designed... but wasn't because you know it was randomly created... by nothing...

When we look at the very basis of all science (that is quantum physics and the math which underlies it) we see that everything truly is governed by randomness and probabilities, not by determinism.

And what exactly is meant by those who say that life appeared by chance and that evolution is a blind process ruled by randomness?

It's regional fairy tales put into impressionable minds by parents and elders and the rest is just the randomness of human nature.

It is the combination of randomness and the winnowing process called natural selection that is offered as an answer by neo-Darwinists.

Top - down selection leads to increased complexity, enabled by the randomness of lower - level processes, an intriguing thought.

Claiming that we falsify reality if we divide it into mind and matter, into living and non-living, he said: «consciousness (which we take to include thought, feeling, desire, will etc.) is to be comprehended in terms of the implicate order, along with reality as a whole».7 Thus the randomness of sub-atomic elements may be linked with the creative freedom exercised by human consciousness.

While affirming that there is randomness and chance in the universe, process thought is not a form of indeterminacy in the typical way the word is used, referring to reality being constituted by discreet causally unrelated entities.

Ricotta Cannoli by The Brunette Baker Ricotta & Spinach Gnocchi by Dinner With Julie Amaretti Cookies by The Busy Baker Squash and Hazelnut Rotelle / Polenta with Sausage and Rapini by The Tasty Gardener Tiramisu by My Daily Randomness Nonna Ortenzia's Meatballs by Libby Roach Egg and Raisin Bread by She Eats Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Sage Butter by Devour & Conquer Potato Doughnuts by Eating Niagara Balsamic Roasted Pear Wedges with Prosciutto by Once Upon A Recipe Spinach Ricotta Cannelloni by Culinary Cool Pickled Eggplant by The Yum Yum Factor Roasted Tomatoes and Fresh Creamy Ricotta by Kelly Neil

by focusing on results (which come with a degree of randomness that bites everyone at some time) as opposed to play.

That's bound to turn around, if only by the randomness of one - lost records.

Scoring happens so infrequently in soccer that short - term wins, losses, and ties often get skewed by randomness.

But a new advance on a method known as a randomness extractor makes it easier for machines to roll the dice, generating truly random numbers by harvesting randomness from the...

«So how is collective motion of bacteria controlled by randomness of the medium?

To find out if that was the case, he teamed up with John Goutsias, Ph.D., professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, to find a way to measure this controlled type of randomness, scientifically termed epigenetic stochasticity, by using the information - theoretic concept of Shannon entropy.

Feinberg, who is also a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Public Health at The Johns Hopkins University, suspected that this variation might be an adaptive feature by which built - in epigenetic randomness would give some cells an advantage in rapidly changing environments.

The freak accident highlighted Florida's vulnerability to sinkholes, and the seemingly sheer randomness of death by earth.

Next month, in Part 2, we will consider how randomness rules our lives through the metaphor of «the drunkard's walk,» well elucidated by physicist Leonard Mlodinow of the California Institute of Technology in his new book of the same title.

To cancel out that randomness, Steinman and his co-authors first took the realizations created by these different supercomputers and averaged them all together.

And when biased reviewers took more than 2.8 % off the scores awarded to grants from the nonpreferred applicants, the bias began to affect funding decisions — even though that number is smaller than the difference in scores produced by randomness.

But a new advance on a method known as a randomness extractor makes it easier for machines to roll the dice, generating truly random numbers by harvesting randomness from the environment.

«So in that sense, by making it easier to get high - quality randomness, our methods could improve security.»

«One common way that encryption is misused is by not using high - quality randomness,» says Zuckerman.

This was originally developed by physicists to quantify lost energy in mechanical systems, such as a steam engine, but entropy can also be used to measure the range or randomness of a system.

Nicolas Cage's new movie knowingly takes on some big questions about randomness and determinism — and, by extension, about science and faith

Entanglement is not possible in classical physics, so the nature of the system must be governed by quantum randomness.

But a paper in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is upsetting the conventional wisdom about randomness by showing that some of these numbers are far more predictable than expected.