Author : Herbert Cole Coombs
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
The Fragile Pattern
Herbert Cole Coombs
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Fragile Patterns
Jeffrey H. Altschul
Author : Jeffrey H. Altschul
Publisher : Statistical Research
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN :
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author : Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Publisher : Random House
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0679645276
Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world. Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. In Antifragile, Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better. Furthermore, the antifragile is immune to prediction errors and protected from adverse events. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for you, and why is what we call “efficient” not efficient at all? Why do government responses and social policies protect the strong and hurt the weak? Why should you write your resignation letter before even starting on the job? How did the sinking of the Titanic save lives? The book spans innovation by trial and error, life decisions, politics, urban planning, war, personal finance, economic systems, and medicine. And throughout, in addition to the street wisdom of Fat Tony of Brooklyn, the voices and recipes of ancient wisdom, from Roman, Greek, Semitic, and medieval sources, are loud and clear. Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world. Erudite, witty, and iconoclastic, Taleb’s message is revolutionary: The antifragile, and only the antifragile, will make it. Praise for Antifragile “Ambitious and thought-provoking . . . highly entertaining.”—The Economist “A bold book explaining how and why we should embrace uncertainty, randomness, and error . . . It may just change our lives.”—Newsweek
The Fragile Universe
Patrick Burke
Author : Patrick Burke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 1979-06-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1349044121
The central topic of current philosophy of religion has been the meaning and the truth of the assertion that God exists. The roots of this preoccupation lie in the natural theology, and the criticism of that theology, of the eighteenth century in the West. The arguments of Hume and Kant are still the basis of contemporary discussion. While this attachment to eighteenth-century concerns may manifest a laudable sense of reverence for our ancestors, it has led the philosophy of religion into lamentable delinquencies and impoverishments.
xUnit Test Patterns
Gerard Meszaros
Author : Gerard Meszaros
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 887 pages
File Size : 19,82 MB
Release : 2007-05-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0132797461
Automated testing is a cornerstone of agile development. An effective testing strategy will deliver new functionality more aggressively, accelerate user feedback, and improve quality. However, for many developers, creating effective automated tests is a unique and unfamiliar challenge. xUnit Test Patterns is the definitive guide to writing automated tests using xUnit, the most popular unit testing framework in use today. Agile coach and test automation expert Gerard Meszaros describes 68 proven patterns for making tests easier to write, understand, and maintain. He then shows you how to make them more robust and repeatable--and far more cost-effective. Loaded with information, this book feels like three books in one. The first part is a detailed tutorial on test automation that covers everything from test strategy to in-depth test coding. The second part, a catalog of 18 frequently encountered "test smells," provides trouble-shooting guidelines to help you determine the root cause of problems and the most applicable patterns. The third part contains detailed descriptions of each pattern, including refactoring instructions illustrated by extensive code samples in multiple programming languages.
Chaos Engineering
Casey Rosenthal
Author : Casey Rosenthal
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1492043818
As more companies move toward microservices and other distributed technologies, the complexity of these systems increases. You can't remove the complexity, but through Chaos Engineering you can discover vulnerabilities and prevent outages before they impact your customers. This practical guide shows engineers how to navigate complex systems while optimizing to meet business goals. Two of the field's prominent figures, Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones, pioneered the discipline while working together at Netflix. In this book, they expound on the what, how, and why of Chaos Engineering while facilitating a conversation from practitioners across industries. Many chapters are written by contributing authors to widen the perspective across verticals within (and beyond) the software industry. Learn how Chaos Engineering enables your organization to navigate complexity Explore a methodology to avoid failures within your application, network, and infrastructure Move from theory to practice through real-world stories from industry experts at Google, Microsoft, Slack, and LinkedIn, among others Establish a framework for thinking about complexity within software systems Design a Chaos Engineering program around game days and move toward highly targeted, automated experiments Learn how to design continuous collaborative chaos experiments
Fragile World
Kerby Rosanes
Author : Kerby Rosanes
Publisher : LOM Art
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781912785254
With over 50 endangered and vulnerable creatures and landscapes to colour, this book will raise awareness of our fragile world and inspire conservation.
The Fragile Wisdom
Grazyna Jasienska
Author : Grazyna Jasienska
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0674067193
Women’s physiology evolved to aid reproduction, not to reduce disease. Any trait—however detrimental to post-reproductive health—is preserved in the next generation if it increases the chances of having offspring who will survive and reproduce. For this reason, the author argues, many common diseases are especially difficult for women to prevent.
The Fragile South Pacific
Andrew W. Mitchell
Author : Andrew W. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,6 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780292724662
The author traces his journey through the South Pacific and examines the natural history of the region
Fragile by Design
Charles W. Calomiris
Author : Charles W. Calomiris
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691168350
Why stable banking systems are so rare Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries—but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households. Analyzing the political and banking history of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil through several centuries, Fragile by Design demonstrates that chronic banking crises and scarce credit are not accidents. Calomiris and Haber combine political history and economics to examine how coalitions of politicians, bankers, and other interest groups form, why they endure, and how they generate policies that determine who gets to be a banker, who has access to credit, and who pays for bank bailouts and rescues. Fragile by Design is a revealing exploration of the ways that politics inevitably intrudes into bank regulation.