Why statistician are way out of their depth w/BIG DATA: + … - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Why statistician are way out of their depth w/BIG DATA: + To a statistician, there are single variables, scalars, vectors, and matrices, separate "tings" in various degrees of complication. + To a probabilist, a scalar is just a low dimensional matrix. All the same "ting".

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.

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