From so simple a beginning…

On Wednesday last week the town where I lived got 20 inches of snow in a twenty-four hour period. I got an unexpected, happy, day off work. Bizarrely, southern regions like Washington and Baltimore got much more than northern ones; Baltimore got 40 inches, Philadelphia got about the same. Records were set in both places [...]

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And Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s two books, Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, are undoubtedly two of the most provocative and interesting books I have come across in my life. While I am still ploughing through them, especially the second book, The Black Swan, has made waves and is apparently now (as usual [...]

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