{"id":1754,"date":"2005-09-11T17:58:58","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T17:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2005-09-11T17:58:58","modified_gmt":"2005-09-11T17:58:58","slug":"talebs_fooled_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1754","title":{"rendered":"Taleb&#8217;s Fooled by Randomness Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nassim Taleb publishes a useful website that includes a number of useful articles following up on his wonderful book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/000185.php\">Fooled by Randomness<\/a>. His latest is: The Scandal of Prediction (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fooledbyrandomness.com\/prediction.pdf\">PDF<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves &#038; the quality of their knowledge too seriously &#038; those who don\u2019t have the guts to sometimes say: I don\u2019t know&#8230;.&#8221; (You may not be able to change the world but can at least get some entertainment &#038; make a living out of the epistemic arrogance of the human race).<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nassim Taleb publishes a useful website that includes a number of useful articles following up on his wonderful book, Fooled by Randomness. His latest is: The Scandal of Prediction (PDF): &#8220;My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves &#038; the quality of their knowledge too seriously &#038; those who don\u2019t have the guts to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}