An occasional audio companion to Potatowire's blog, With the Grain.
There is something romantic about the notion of intuition. The trouble is, most of life renders intuition unreliable
Throughout _The Black Swan_, Nassim Nicholas Taleb bemoans the prevalence of Gaussian functions, perhaps known best graphed as characteristic bell curves.
In his book The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb analyzes the concepts of uncertainty and probability in light of the truly unpredictable.
Human beings are masters of overconfidence, but we don't have to accept defeat.
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