Sentences with phrase «importance of rare events»

Taleb starts with the invalidation of the hypothesis «all swans are white», but the rest of the book is about the importance of rare events, not philosophy of science.

Not exact matches

The importance of this rare astronomical event to science has long since waned, but we now — seemingly in the dying days of celluloid - based cinema — have a chance to reconsider the historical and technological impact of the transit.»

The real message of his book is in my understanding that the total importance of all possible rare events is large.