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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Sometimes there were interesting little problems that emerged and one of those has to do with the use of chariots in warfare.

偶尔会有一些有趣的小问题出现,这往往和战争时使用的二轮战车相关

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When a brief pulse of electricity is sent to the read/write head it flips on a tiny electromagnet for a fraction of a second.

当一个简单的电脉冲被送到读写头,它会短时间内出现一个小的电磁。

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Then a little car pulls up. It is my friend, Bumpy.

然后有一辆小车出现了，那是我的朋友小颠。

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Treasury bills are for serious investors and so they don't come in small denominations.

国库券是面向专业投资者的,所以他们不以小面值出现

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When little holes come along, that's rain coming through.

当出现小洞时，便有了雨水。

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So, that minor third can show up very early in the scale.

那么,这个小三度在音阶中出现得相当早

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So, let's take a look at one of these rows in more detail to think about why this might be happening, and it turns out the reason that these glitches occur are because the sub shell structure predominates in certain instances, and that's where these glitches take place.

那么，让我们仔细地看一看其中一行,想一想为什么会这样，结果是这些小偏差的出现,是因为在一定情况下,亚壳层结构会产生重要影响，这正发生在小偏差出现的地方。

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You can very quickly drive yourself nuts by sitting down, thinking, oh, I can write this program, no sweat, and then you write it and then there's a tiny little mistake here, but then there's a tiny little mistake here and here, and all of these stupid little things cascade until you try running your program, and the thing just doesn't work.

如果你只是仅仅干坐着，不费吹灰之力，凭空幻想着我可以把这个项目搞定，你会想地发疯的，也许你会写出一点东西出来，可能会有一点点错误,紧接着这或那又出现一点小错误，这些小错误一点一点地堆积了起来,直到你开始运行你整个项目，你会发现这堆东西根本就不工作。

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