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This is what physicist Max Planck (the father of quantum mechanics), Einstein, and others observed: No matter how much you know, there is an infinite amount of chance and randomness in the universe.
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
Risk, as first articulated by the economist Frank H. Knight in 1921,45 is something that you can put a price on.
Nate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
He knows, through a quite involved calculation, that at some point in a series of two hundred coin-flips, either heads or tails will come up six or more times in
Thomas H. Davenport • Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics
Von Neumann was worried about global warming long before most people were—but mostly he worried about nuclear war, fearing that “mankind might not survive another twenty-five years but instead would become the victim of its own self-destructive inclinations.” However, charged with less abstract
Nate Silver • On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
libro “El Tigre Que No Está” (Océano, 2009) Michael Blastland y Andrew Dilnot hacen un interesante recuento de estas prácticas en la vida pública: cuando los números se usan de forma sesgada, incompleta o abiertamente abusiva para hacer creer que algo es beneficioso o perjudicial.