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Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2005 · 316 pages

2 people have this book on the record — 1 of 2 verdicts positive. The dissent stays on the page.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Radek Pietruszewski read it
Podcast. Ramblings about randomness and all the ways in which our minds aren’t properly equipped to deal with it.

on radex.io · 1 Jan 2017

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.