The composer constructs a situation on the board that is theoretically possible, although often highly improbable.
But the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has never had a problem with highly improbable events.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an applied statistician and derivatives trader-turned-philosopher, and author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
Magistrate Judge David Bartick found that her continuing health problems made it highly improbable she could be brought to trial, prosecutors said.
Yet it is highly improbable that the enabling legislation could deviate from the Basic Law without being subject to challenge on constitutional grounds.
The only way a measurable amount of EM energy makes it to a critical system is via a number of strange and highly improbable coincidences.
From an investor's perspective, the idea of planning for low-probability, high-consequence events is well treated in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
"On the whole, even if every target could be met by 2010, it would be highly improbable to expect that we would be the strongest economy in the world, " he said.
More importantly perhaps, it counts Nassim Taleb, who popularized this notion with his best-selling book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable as a member of its research team.
But banking sources tell me it is highly improbable that - in these risk-averse times - the FSA will give a guarantee that NBNK would receive advanced status on any set timetable.
But even if he eliminates all the waste -- improbable -- and persuades Congress to close more military bases -- highly improbable -- he'll be lucky to eke out a few billion dollars.
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Taleb, author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, recently took the investment industry to task, arguing in a paper that active trading returns amounted to nothing more than luck.
This occurs when a doctor, fearing a lawsuit, orders a battery of costly diagnostic tests to rule out the highly improbable, even when the obvious cause of sickness or injury is staring him in the face.
Yet Malthusian doom is highly improbable.
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That timeline is highly improbable.
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So maybe this happy and highly accidental convergence of improbable events will turn out to be a much bigger mitzvah than me, Yochi, or my client could possibly have imagined a scant two weeks ago.
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