http://www.dadamo.com/B2blogs/blogs/index.php?blog=24&disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:15:48 +0000 PJ Eby [Visitor] c2120@http://www.dadamo.com/B2blogs/blogs/ For the original version of this "Fat Tony" anecdote, see page 124 of "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable", by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.<br /> <br /> (More precisely, it's a thought experiment posed by Taleb, of bringing together two real people -- christened "Fat Tony" and "Dr. John" to discuss the odds of flipping a coin.)<br /> <em><br /> Yes! Thank you for sharing this info. I had forgotten exactly where I had read of this anecdote. Great book. </em>
(More precisely, it's a thought experiment posed by Taleb, of bringing together two real people -- christened "Fat Tony" and "Dr. John" to discuss the odds of flipping a coin.)

Yes! Thank you for sharing this info. I had forgotten exactly where I had read of this anecdote. Great book. ]]> http://www.dadamo.com/B2blogs/blogs/index.php/2010/08/28/fat-tony-science?blog=24#c2120