Quotes About Robustness

don't understand?" is, simply, work on the undesirable states of f(x). It is often easier to modify f(x) than to get better knowledge of x. (In other words, robustification rather than forecasting Black Swans.) Example: If I buy an insurance on

Now for reasons that have to do with the increase of the artificial, the move away from ancestral and natural models, and the loss in robustness owing to complications in the design of everything, the role of Black Swans in increasing.

Per il robusto un errore è informazione, per il debole un errore è solo un errore

robust" is certainly not good enough. In the long run everything with the most minute vulnerability breaks, given the ruthlessness of time—yet our planet has been around for perhaps four billion years and, convincingly, robustness can't just be it: you need perfect robustness for a crack not to end up crashing the system.

the antifragile benefits from volatility and disorder, the fragile is harmed.

my ideas on redundancy in systems.

Je préférerais être bête et antifragile qu'extrêmement intelligent et fragile, à n'importe quel moment.

We have been fragilizing the economy, our health, political life, education, almost everything Ã¢â'¬Â¦ by suppressing randomness and volatility. Just as spending a month in bed (preferably with an unabridged version of War and Peace and access to The Sopranos' entire eighty-six episodes) leads to muscle atrophy, complex systems are weakened, even killed, when deprived of stressors.

Avoid optimization; learn to love redundancy.

a hybrid who combines the delicate frailness of the Mimosa, crumbling at a touch when his own feelings are hurt, with the thick-skinned robustness of the elephant trampling over the feelings of others.

a solid, unbreakable-looking build, like he had been cast all in one slab.

What we've underestimated is the systemic risk that that very finely tuned system of specialization exposes us to. And so I think we will start to ask whether there are ways that we could build some more robustness into our whole system.

I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience.

The truth is not delicate; it will stand up to vigorous testing.

It's about just staying fit, staying strong and staying ready.

The tougher you are, the more fragile.

I have kind of an iron stomach.

I did take some value out of looking at the extreme simplicity of implementation that the tight resource limits required. I do feel that modern games are often abstracted a lot more than is really necessary, and it leads to robustness issues.

The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle. It really is.

I need to be able to depend on the products I use to stand up to the demands I put on my vehicles.

I want to be the most durable person on the planet.

I've been strong my whole entire life.

I am fine. I feel really good. I am playing without any sort of fitness problems.

Flexibility is an essential ingredient to building a more robust, tough and resilient you. You got to be able to adjust, adapt, change and thrive no matter what circumstance you find yourself in. Be awesome, be tough and be resilient.