{"id":4104,"date":"2012-01-30T12:51:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T20:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=4104"},"modified":"2012-01-30T12:51:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T20:51:23","slug":"non-sissy-uncertainty-why-i-inflict-nassim-black-swan-taleb-on-my-students-cross-check-scientific-american-blog-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/non-sissy-uncertainty-why-i-inflict-nassim-black-swan-taleb-on-my-students-cross-check-scientific-american-blog-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Sissy Uncertainty: Why I Inflict Nassim \u201cBlack Swan\u201d Taleb on My Students | Cross-Check, Scientific American Blog Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More follow-up from NNT&#8217;s recent Stevens Institute talk.<br \/>HatTip to Dave Lull.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s a quote from the prologue of Antifragility, which should give you a sense of Taleb\u2019s substance and style: \u201cThis book is about how to domesticate, even dominate, even conquer, the impenetrable, the unseen, the non-understood, the opaque, the perplexing, and the inexplicable. Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness: you want to use it, not hide from it. You want to be the fire and wish for the wind. This summarizes my non-sissy attitude toward randomness and uncertainty.\u201d Non-sissy uncertainty? That\u2019s a message I\u2019ll enjoy imparting to my students.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/cross-check\/2012\/01\/30\/non-sissy-uncertainty-why-i-inflict-nassim-black-swan-taleb-on-my-students\/\">Non-Sissy Uncertainty: Why I Inflict Nassim \u201cBlack Swan\u201d Taleb on My Students | Cross-Check, Scientific American Blog Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More follow-up from NNT&#8217;s recent Stevens Institute talk.HatTip to Dave Lull. Here\u2019s a quote from the prologue of Antifragility, which should give you a sense of Taleb\u2019s substance and style: \u201cThis book is about how to domesticate, even dominate, even conquer, the impenetrable, the unseen, the non-understood, the opaque, the perplexing, and the inexplicable. Wind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-4104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","tag-karl-popper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7702,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions\/7702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}