On the Edge

af Nate Silver

In The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now, in his timely new book, Silver investigates 'the River', or those whose mastery of risk allows them to shape, and dominate, so much of modern life.The River is Silver's term for professional risk takers - poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true-believers and blue-chip art collectors - and in On the Edge, he reveals what we can learn about navigating uncertainty from those who do so f... (Læs mere)