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Re:Black Swans - unexpected movements in financial markets. by jakewolf on Monday March 17, 2008 @09:37AM (#138895)
Read Taleb's book, "The Black Swan." Very timely these days.

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable/dp...

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Re:Black Swans - unexpected movements in financial markets. by moog on Monday March 17, 2008 @09:42AM (#138897)
Listen to this talk he gave at the Long Now: http://s3.amazonaws.com/salt-recordings/salt-020080208-taleb...
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Re:Black Swans - unexpected movements in financial markets. by omarseyal on Monday March 17, 2008 @12:31PM (#138999)
Honestly, Black Swan is not Taleb's best book. I would recommend you read Fooled By Randomness first if you have the chance...

http://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Chance-Market...

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Re:Black Swans - unexpected movements in financial markets. by davidw on Monday March 17, 2008 @05:13PM (#139233)
In the above talk, he mentions that Black Swan is better than Fooled by Randomness.
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Re:Black Swans - unexpected movements in financial markets. by jakewolf on Monday March 17, 2008 @02:46PM (#139106)
Both are good and help give you some perspective on stepping back and looking at the big picture.
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Re:Black Swans - unexpected movements in financial markets. by blinks on Monday March 17, 2008 @12:48PM (#139008)
I grabbed this book to read on the flight to Dublin (from Seattle). It's a good read; humorous, but informative.
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Re:Black Swans - unexpected movements in financial markets. by blackswan on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @01:46PM (#139994)
As you might guess, this is one of my favorite books! One of the things I find so fascinating is how, as in Fooled By Randomness, the concepts he outlines are readily applicable to so many spheres of activity in the modern world. There are black swans happening and about to happen in every field where modern technology has accelerated communication and is changing the way things are done.
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