From The Huffington Post and YouTube
Nassim Nicholas Taleb says (pp. xvii – xviii) that a “Black Swan” is an event with three attributes. “It is an outlier . . .” in the sense that it is “outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility. . . it carries an extreme impact . . . human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable.”
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