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Quotes About Convex

On his convex forehead his namam is a vertical, three-pronged fork, the center stripe red and the flanking two white. It signals he's a Vaishnavite, holding Vishnu to be the supreme god in the pantheon.
~ Abraham Verghese
Thanks to the printing press, the Continent was suddenly populated by people who were experts at manipulating light through slightly convex pieces of glass. These were the hackers of the first optical revolution.
~ Steven Johnson
convex side of the train," he wrote, "when both the
~ Candice Millard
The convex (left) is antifragile, the concave (right) is fragile (has
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
c) If the function is convex (antifragile), then the average of the function of something is going to be higher than the function of the average of something. And the reverse when the function is concave (fragile).
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Modernity provides too many variables (but too little data per variable), and the spurious relationships grow much, much faster than real information, as noise is convex and information is concave. Increasingly, data can only truly deliver via negativa–style knowledge—it can be effectively used to debunk, not confirm.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb