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"The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is a revolutionary vision from one of the most subversive...
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Consciousness literature and the arts volume 31
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Rodopi
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie volume Bd. 2
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B.R. Grüner
Pub. Date
1984
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English
12) Survival under uncertainty: an introduction to probability models of social structure and evolution
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Springer
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[2016]
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English
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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"A measurement result is incomplete without a statement of its 'uncertainty' or 'margin of error'. But what does this statement actually tell us? By examining the practical meaning of probability, this book discusses what is meant by a '95 percent interval of measurement uncertainty', and how such an interval can be calculated. The book argues that the concept of an unknown 'target value' is essential if probability is to be used as a tool for evaluating...
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