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This has nothing to do with black swans, the birds... this has to do with unexpected results that are easy to explain in hindsight after the truth is known. ht
by wernercd 5y ago
This has nothing to do with black swans, the birds... this has to do with unexpected results that are easy to explain in hindsight after the truth is known.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory
"Taleb's "black swan theory" refers only to unexpected events of large magnitude and consequence and their dominant role in history. Such events, considered extreme outliers, collectively play vastly larger roles than regular occurrences.[2]:xxi"
This discovery (unexpected behavior of matter) seems like it'll have a surprising and large magnitude.
- meepmorp 5y agoThe way they use the phrase here has nothing to do with Black swan theory or Taleb's book. It just means something very rare, and that's been the common meaning of the phrase in English for hundreds of years. It comes from Latin.
- jtbayly 5y agoBut no correction of my improper interpretation of “soft matter”? ;-)
- wernercd 5y agoits early and the caffeine hasn't set in (still hasn't). I guess this is a better comment if I read it with a sarcastic twist?