{"id":4543,"date":"2012-06-03T13:13:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T20:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2012-06-03T13:13:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T20:13:02","slug":"book-recommendations-from-nassim-taleb-farnam-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/book-recommendations-from-nassim-taleb-farnam-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Recommendations from Nassim Taleb | Farnam Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farnam Street covered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/cdp\/member-reviews\/A3V94HTDKTOY1O\/ref=cr_cm_rdp_pdp_see_all?ie=UTF8&amp;sort_by=MostRecentReview\" target=\"_blank\">NNT&#8217;s Amazon Book Review Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Information: The New Language of Science 5 stars <br \/>If you want an introduction to information theory, and, in a way, probability theory from the real front door, this is it. A clearly written book, very intuitive, explains things, such as the Monty Hall problem in a few lines. I will make it a prerequisite before more technical great books, such as Cover and Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>Free The Animal: Lose Weight &amp; Fat With The Paleo Diet 5 stars <br \/>A charming primer on the paleo idea, with an illustration through the authors own life. I read it in one sitting. Why Everyone Else Is a Hypocrite:<\/p>\n<p>Evolution and the Modular Mind 5 stars <br \/>This is a great synthesis of the modularity approach to cognitive science. It covers the entire field and has the right footnotes for the patches. The style is readable, &amp; the author has an attitude with is a very good thing, but his jokes are often bland, not aggressive enough. While I strongly disagree with his treatment of morality I am deontic, I can safely say, so far, that this is not just one of the best books in cognitive science, but certainly one of the most readable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farnamstreetblog.com\/2012\/02\/book-recommendations-from-nassim-taleb\/\">Book Recommendations from Nassim Taleb | Farnam Street<\/a>.<br \/>HatTip to Dave Lull<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farnam Street covered NNT&#8217;s Amazon Book Review Page. Information: The New Language of Science 5 stars If you want an introduction to information theory, and, in a way, probability theory from the real front door, this is it. A clearly written book, very intuitive, explains things, such as the Monty Hall problem in a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[288],"tags":[115,536],"class_list":["post-4543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-amazon","tag-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543","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=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4544,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions\/4544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}