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Friends, a graphical presentation of ANTIFRAGILE one of 3 appendices. Hope it is clear
http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/appendix1.pdf
The web’s main benefit is forcing the perishable to perish quickly; more generally, high-speed modernity forces the fragile to break quickly. [REVISED]
It took me a lifetime to realize that what grows freely (organically) tends to be fractal.
Any doctor in the room?
JENSEN’S INEQUALITY IN MEDICINE CHAP 21
I’ve found very few medical papers making use of nonlinearity by applying Jensen’s inequality to medical problems, in spite of the ubiquity of nonlinear responses in biology. I am generous, I actually only found a single one , thanks to Eric Briys, and a single one that used it properly, so the response “we know that” when nonlinearity is explained to medical researchers is rather lame. The philosopher’s stone explained that the volatility of, say, a dose matters, often more than the average. If you are antifragile to a given substance, then you are better off to have it randomly distributed, rather than provided steadily. Remarkably it works in an identical way as with options, innovations, anything convex. Now let us apply it …
CHAPTER ON EDUCATION
Self directed scholarship has an aesthetic dimension. For a long time I had on the wall of my study the following quote by Jacques Le Goff, the great French medievalist, who believes that the Renaissance came out of independent humanists, not professional scholars. He examined the striking contrast in period paintings, drawings and renditions that compare Medieval university members and humanists:
“One is a professor surrounded and besieged by huddled students. The other is a solitary scholar, sitting in the tranquility and privacy of his chambers, at ease in the spacious and comfy room where his thoughts can move freely. Here we encounter the tumult of schools, the dust of classrooms, the indifference to beauty in collective workplaces,There, it is all order and beauty,Luxe, calme et volupté “