It's about how so many plans in finance are messed up by rare events that suddenly appear out of nowhere.

书中提到金融界中突然出现的小概率事件,怎样搞砸了无数计划

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To gain an understanding of some of the issues involved, and the emergence of a tribal structure in the land, it's helpful to know something about the geography of Israel, which is why I have handed out for you a couple of different maps but one that gives you physical features .

为了了解其中一些事件，以及在这片土地上逐渐出现的部落形式，了解以色列的地理是很有好处的，这也就是我给你发了几份不同地图的原因,其中有一幅呈现了物理特点，在最上面。

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It was, in some respects, for me anyway, it was harder than the immediate aftermath of 911, because 911 felt like an discrim event, like there was an attack, we recovered, there was a response.

就我个人而言，在某些方面，它比911后果还要严重，因为911像个能够辨别分析的事件，出现了一次袭击，我们恢复过来，我们有应对措施。

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And what this is in a very general sense is the learning of an association between one stimulus and another stimulus, where stimulus is a technical term meaning events in the environment like a certain smell or sound or sight.

一般来说,经典条件作用是指在一个刺激,和另一个刺激之间形成联结，这里的刺激是一个专业术语,意思是环境中出现的事件,比如某种味道，声音或景观。

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