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photo credit: stephcarterLeonard Mlodinow, a physicist/author who also, apparantly, understands the impact of random events and the ‘illusion of control’ in everyday life.  In this talk he adresses randomness, the illusion of control, probability misinterpretations (i.e. in medicine, sports), psychology (i.e. Kahnemann, Taversky) etc., basically the insights similar to The Black Swan. He talks about randomness, confirmation [...]