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  1. I am hating, HATING the black swan. I am convinced it could be edited down to 4 pages I would happy pay 2x as much for.
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      My kindle is telling me <15 minutes to go. WE CAN DO THIS.
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        2 MINUTES.
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          Okay my takeaways from the black swan. 1) the Gaussian models we use do not work because they predict extreme events badly.
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            2) the author bears a lot of grudges and the only person he respects intellectually is Mandelbrot.