Malcolm Gladwell's Blowing up is rich in biographical detail on Taleb, and reads to me like Fooled
by Randomness in essay (despite Taleb's protestations that «while flattering,» it put him in the «wrong box»).
Not exact matches
Taleb, who grew up
in Lebanon and used to work on Wall Street, published his first non-technical book, Fooled
by Randomness,
in 2001.
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.
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.
Sometimes we refer to «constrained
randomness», but what you probably mean
by random usually isn't what's going on
in evolutionary dynamics.
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.
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).
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.
Scoring happens so infrequently
in soccer that short - term wins, losses, and ties often get skewed
by randomness.
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.
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.
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.
«So
in that sense,
by making it easier to get high - quality
randomness, our methods could improve security.»
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.
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.
Hope you'll stop
by and enjoy my blog
in all its
randomness.
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In computing, entropy is the randomness collected by an operating system or application for use in cryptography or other uses that require random dat
In computing, entropy is the
randomness collected
by an operating system or application for use
in cryptography or other uses that require random dat
in cryptography or other uses that require random data.
Taleb (2005, 2007, 2012) within his books on financial markets and system dynamics Fooled
by Randomness, Black Swan and Antifragile argues that our incapability to forecast
in environments subjected to extreme events including a lack of the awareness of this state of affairs means that certain experts are claiming to tell the truth while
in fact they are not.
In your opinion, does the novel argue that the universe is guided
by order or
randomness?
In his book Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Taleb defined Black Swan (the term refers to the once prevalent old world belief that all swans are white, which was proven false when black swans were discovered in Australia) as a rare event that is (1) unexpected (2) carries an extreme impact and (3) believed to be predictable in hindsigh
In his book Fooled
by Randomness, Nassim Taleb defined Black Swan (the term refers to the once prevalent old world belief that all swans are white, which was proven false when black swans were discovered
in Australia) as a rare event that is (1) unexpected (2) carries an extreme impact and (3) believed to be predictable in hindsigh
in Australia) as a rare event that is (1) unexpected (2) carries an extreme impact and (3) believed to be predictable
in hindsigh
in hindsight.
Trend following price action is an alternative to participating
in the
randomness of trying to make buy and sell decisions
by calculating fundamental valuations
in the hopes that the market will agree at some future date.
From your 50 % odds based on
randomness then you will attempt to get the odds
in your favor
by going
in the direction of the predominant trend
in your time frame.
With security prices available on a minute -
by - minute basis, the run - of - the - mill investors focus on analyzing
randomness — allowing themselves to become happy or sad over short - term price fluctuations that are disconnected from whether they were fundamentally right
in their investment analysis.
Taleb offers a similar view
in Fooled
by Randomness and The Black Swan, and that's what makes the books so enjoyable.
In Fooled by Randomness, Taleb describes how humans tend to look for patterns in cause and effect where none exis
In Fooled
by Randomness, Taleb describes how humans tend to look for patterns
in cause and effect where none exis
in cause and effect where none exist.
by Fred Schwed «The Money Game»
by Adam Smith «Against the Gods»
by Peter L. Bernstein «The Four Pillars of Investing»
by William Bernstein «The Intelligent Asset Allocator «
by William Bernstein «Personal Finance for Dummies»
by Eric Tyson «Fooled
by Randomness»
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb «The Richest Man
in Babylon «
by George Clason
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).
The core gameplay can be a bit of a bore but the aspect of
randomness brought
in by other players makes the entire experience once the buzz of surviving against dinosaurs wears off.
He wants to subvert the standards of judgment integral to our understanding of abstract painting, while being committed to the act of making... He is interested
in — to use his own words — perversely cultivating the tenuous relationship between «creative seeing» and the
randomness of nature without becoming explicit...
By finding ways to foreground his conflicts about painting, while also expanding its definition, Burckhardt has become one of the most interesting artists of his generation.»
As described
in the exhibition's catalog
by Dana Miller, The Whitney Museum's Director of the Collection, DeFeo's experiments, which the artist described as play, «meant not only taking risks, but also, at key moments, sharing authorship with forces of nature,
randomness, or accident.»
Lozano - Hemmer expands on this notion
by reminding us about the impossibility of true
randomness in a machinic universe where any pretension of autonomy
in a program is only a simulation.
It follows that changes
in the degree of
randomness can not be assessed
by changes
in the probability distribution.
On these premises it is possible to shape a consistent stochastic representation of natural processes,
in which predictability (suggested
by deterministic laws) and unpredictability (
randomness) coexist and are not separable or additive components.
Multimoment multiscale spatiotemporal integration reveals nonrandom harmonic pattern - summary discontinuities, exposing the comedy tragically advocated
by deceitful & / or naive theoreticians who are
in part constrained
by a dominant culture that clings seemingly religiously to maladaptive traditions such as unjustifiable assumptions of
randomness, independence, uniformity, linearity, etc. that are routinely misapplied (for example to conveniently render abstract conceptions mathematically tractable).
Can also be found, almost verbatim,
in the 2003 book «Physics of fractal operators»
By Bruce J. West, Mauro Bologna, Paolo Grigolini and also
in the paper «From knowledge, knowability and the search for objective
randomness to a new vision of complexity» P Allegrini, M Giuntoli, P Grigolini, BJ West — Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2004.
The reason deterministic chaos leads to
randomness given any interaction with the rest of the world is inherent
in the local dynamics: two initial points separated
by a small «distance»
in phase space will grow exponentially more distant over time, with the exponential growth rate given
by the Lyapunov exponent.
His book «Fooled
by Randomness» was published
in 2004 and «The Black Swan» was published
in 2007.
To claim that if the change attributed to CO2 is less than that caused
by natural forcings is proof that the change could not have actually been caused
by CO2 seems to me to require
randomness in climate change.
There could be a degree of
randomness on short timescales as regards any ongoing modulation
by other variable or chaotic influences but they remain present
in the background nonetheless.
In essence, Taleb says we are not very good at understanding the past or present — his first book was called Fooled
by Randomness — and that we are downright horrible at predicting the future.