J'ai découvert par hasard cet auteur Nassim Nicholas Taleb qui a un profil tres interessant et impressionant (MBA, Ph.D. in financial mathematics, Professor of Marketing, etc...)a black swan is a large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare event beyond the realm of normal expectations.
J'ai pas encore lu ce livre The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable qui est paru en avril 2007 et qui a déja 200 commentaires surNassim Talebis an essayist, philosopher of randomness, researcher, and practitioner of mathematical finance. As a pioneer of complex financial derivatives[2], he had as a "day job" a lengthy senior trading career in New York City's Wall Street firms, before he reduced his financial mathematics activities to start a second career as an epistemologist of chance events and focus on the development of his black swan theory of unexpected rare events[3]. Taleb's literary approach is to provide a modern-day brand of philosophical tale by mixing narrative fiction, often semi-autobiographical, with scientific commentary.
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En tous cas cette théorie du Black Swan semble interessante pour l'impact que peut avoir un phénomene imprevisible. il parle du 9/11 comme exemple mais on peut facilement étendre à d'autres catastrophes + ou - imprevisible.
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