Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
I Use The Example As Computed By The Mathematician Michael Berry. If You Know A Set Of Basic Parameters Concerning The Ball At Rest, Can Compute The Resistance Of The Table (quite Elementary), And Can Gauge The Strength Of The Impact, Then It Is Rather Easy To Predict What Would Happen At The First Hit. The Second Impact Becomes More Complicated, But Possible; You Need To Be More Careful About Your Knowledge Of The Initial States, And More Precision Is Called For. The Problem Is That To Correctly Predict The Ninth Impact, You Need To Take Into Account The Gravitational Pull Of Someone Standing Next To The Table (modestly, Berry's Computations Use A Weight Of Less Than 150 Pounds). And To Compute The Fifty-sixth Impact, Every Single Elementary Particle Of The Universe Needs To Be Present In Your Assumptions!
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