The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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In this book, Nassim Nicholas Taleb introduces the concept of a 'Black Swan' event – an unpredictable event that is beyond what is normally expected of a situation and has potentially severe consequences. Black Swan events are characterized by their extreme rarity, their severe impact, and the widespread insistence that they were obvious in hindsight.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Black Swan event
unpredictability
risk

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"The speaker mentions 'Tab' and being 'obsessed with Tab when it came to complex systems,' which is a clear reference to Nassim Nicholas Taleb. 'The Black Swan' is another one of his highly influential books on unpredictability and complex systems."

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