Black Swans and the Domains of Statistics

By Nassim Nicholas Taleb. 2007

Subfields: Evaluation & Benchmarks

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1. D. Bassett
2. Nicolas Papernot
3. Yarin Gal
4. S. Thorgren
5. T. Williams
6. Rahaf Aljundi
7. Gido M. van de Ven

Citations in the corpus

• The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget (2023, background): “Low-probability events are also vital to understand complex systems [Taleb, 2007].”
• Cognitive Network Neuroscience (2015, background): “One additional challenge is to consider the influences of rare events (Taleb, 2007) within and across levels of organization in nonlinear brain systems.”
• Staying alive during an unfolding crisis: How SMEs ward off impending disaster (2020, background): “While there is a range of crisis scenarios facing organizations, rare are “black swan” events (i.e., unpredictable, rare events that have a catastrophic impact) (Taleb, 2007) that truly transcend business planning or resilience models.”