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Wall Street: Fooled By Randomness DailyFinance By Morgan Housel, The Motley Fool Posted 9:09PM 01/19/12 Investing In his book Fooled By Randomness, Nassim Nickolas Taleb describes "luck disguised and perceived as nonluck (that is, skill)." He explains: "It manifests itself in the shape of the lucky ... and more » |
The Guardian | The quango cull: an exercise in randomness with no real savings The Guardian The quango cull is a an exercise in randomness – so accidental we can't tell whether the promised savings will ever be realised, jumbled as they are between "efficiency gains" and bog-standard cuts in service. The National Audit Office's case could ... and more » |
Randomness permeates daily life UT Daily Beacon But our control doesn't extend to randomness. When things are random, when people give up their ability to control the circumstances around them and simply go with what is happening, they live in a world governed by incorruptible randomness. |
SnakeBytes, 2/4: Super Bowl Saturday Edition AZ Snake Pit by Jim McLennan on Feb 4, 2012 1:00 PM EST in Randomness Trust you are all getting your hot-dogs and burgers ready for tomorrow's televisual treat, which has been eagerly anticipated all year. I refer, of course, t the Super Bowl Commercials. |
On writing, the randomness of being, and everyday honesty Daily News & Analysis Like me, Raghav (name changed) is a writer. Unlike me, writing is his hobby. There is something wrong with the word hobby. No one seems to be using it these days. Come to think of it, I am unable to recall a single incident where I either talked about ... |
Randomness and the NFL Playoffs Schaeffers Research But are we all getting a bit "fooled by randomness," and reading a little too much into what amounts to some tiny sample sizes? The notion occurred to me as I read this table on NFL playoff results over the last 21 years (the time frame that the NFL ... |
Wall Street: Fooled By Randomness Motley Fool UK In his book Fooled By Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb describes "luck disguised and perceived as nonluck (that is, skill)". He explains: "It manifests itself in the shape of the lucky fool, defined as a person who benefited from a disproportionate ... |
Oakland Effect: Violence is an abstraction until you experience it San Jose Mercury News Now, a certain amount of randomness is present for anyone in the world. Loved ones die in car crashes. They succumb to cancer or heart disease or brain aneurysms. They choke or drown or have strokes. But where a culture of violence is omnipresent, ... and more » |
Randomness, perceptive dogs, and extreme journalism Scienceline ... who died in 2009 and whose modern dance company recently finished its final tour. Cunningham relied on chance and randomness in many aspects of his choreography, Acocella says, and also played with technology, such as motion-capture animation. |
'Prime Suspect' 'Ain't No Sunshine' recap: Randomness is terrifying Gather.com Prime Suspect continues with episode 12, "Ain't No Sunshine." While Duffy and Calderon are working a scene where a young girl's body is found in a garbage chute, Augie and Jane have a woman who was shot whose husband performed CPR. and more » |
