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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the fourth quadrant

Edge published a new essay by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the ‘The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable’, called The Fourth Quadrant: A Map of the Limits of Statistics: If small probability events carry large impacts, and (at the same time) these small probability events are more difficult to compute from past [...]