{"id":5858,"date":"2013-07-11T13:02:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T20:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5858"},"modified":"2013-07-11T13:02:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T20:02:03","slug":"having-spent-the-past-9-months-doing-nothing-but-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/having-spent-the-past-9-months-doing-nothing-but-mathematics\/","title":{"rendered":"Having spent the past 9 months doing nothing but mathematics&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Having spent the past 9 months doing nothing but mathematics, and reading nothing outside of mathematics, I come to realize that the virtue of the subject is not at all in the applications, but in refining one&#8217;s instinct against noise and bullshit. I tried to read a magazine article, and couldn&#8217;t. But I can still read Erasmus, or Spinoza, or the aphorists.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151559479933375&amp;id=13012333374\">Having spent the past 9 months doing&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Facebook<\/a>. 6\/28\/13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having spent the past 9 months doing nothing but mathematics, and reading nothing outside of mathematics, I come to realize that the virtue of the subject is not at all in the applications, but in refining one&#8217;s instinct against noise and bullshit. I tried to read a magazine article, and couldn&#8217;t. But I can still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858","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=5858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5859,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858\/revisions\/5859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}