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The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it.

matters are far worse: we may have no less of a problem with phony skepticism.

while the statements are dressed up to look as if they were made for the benefit of the collective.

Stern was part of the conference but absent from the dinner.

But we don't easily translate this to other domains and remain victims of scientism

Nor did the point escape Machiavelli. Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, citing him: "It seemed, wrote Machiavelli, that in the midst of murders and civil wars, our republic became stronger [and] its citizens infused

options pushed me to study the math of probability.

grammar is something people without anything more exciting to do in their lives codify into a book. While

The word sample stresses that one sees only one realization among a collection of possible ones. Now, a sample path can be either deterministic or random, which brings the next distinction.

the lucky surge of interest for reasons completely external to the works themselves.

They may hate McDonald's, but they certainly hate uncertainty even more.

The first of the problems of human nature that we examine in this section, the one just illustrated above, is what I call the narrative fallacy.

Such statements, that other traders had also gotten into trouble, are self-incriminating.

Note a slight disagreement on my part that does not change the story by much: the world, rather, moves by large incremental random changes.

but runs the risk of killing a few, with a net benefit to society.

you never cure structural defects; the system corrects itself by collapsing.*2

if you seek certainty about whether the patient has cancer, not certainty about whether he is healthy, then you might be satisfied with negative inference, since it will supply you the certainty you seek.

every search has incrementally a higher probability of yielding a result

they are explicitly designed to benefit from market volatility.

this was his most significant insight, but it remains his least known.

By dumping the kitchen sink of scientific references in a paper, one can make another literary intellectual believe that one's material has the stamp of science.

their role being confined to analysis, not decision making.

to avoid dullness may help to filter out the nonessential.)

absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, a simple point that has the following implications: for the antifragile, good news tends to be absent from past data, and for