http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2007/11/19/directed-research-is-useless/ Computer Scientist and Open Scholar: Databases, Information Retrieval, Business Intelligence. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:49:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2007/11/19/directed-research-is-useless/comment-page-1/#comment-49564 Mike Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:23:16 +0000 http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2007/11/19/directed-research-is-useless/#comment-49564 I came across Taleb's book first on John Robb's Global Guerillas blog. I haven't convinced myself yet that it's not tautological, that is, simply saying that unexpected events are impossible to predict. I came across Taleb’s book first on John Robb’s Global Guerillas blog. I haven’t convinced myself yet that it’s not tautological, that is, simply saying that unexpected events are impossible to predict.

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