Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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Again, just seeing NNT’s ideas filter into the culture. Hugh Macleod is an artist and an entrepreneur and a frequent speaker at internet conferences. He blogs at http://gapingvoid.com/
To get some very lucid, hardcore perspecti…
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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Tidy summary of October 2009 HBR article.
Nassim N. Taleb, Daniel G. Goldstein, and Mark W. Spitznagel discuss risk management and short comings in approaches in the October 2009 issue of the Harvard Business Review (subscription req…
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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Taleb talks briefly @ 25 minute mark for about 5 minutes. Mostly on “know what vs. know how”. Caplan wrote The Myth of the Rational Voter. Great Caplan introduction audio lecture from SXSW 2008 at http://audio.sxsw.com/podcast/intera…
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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Nice intro to NNT article found at Reddit by sixbillionthsheep
Nassim Taleb is the best-selling author of The Black Swan. He is a former Wall Street trader and a current University Professor of risk engineering whose grandfather and …
Monday, December 28, 2009
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From NNT’s homepage. Continued at link above. Hat tip to Dave Lull.
118- 2009, Annus MirabilisI thought that calendar 2009 was agood year for my thinking activities; taking stock I thought I hadsatisfied my new year commitment to not…
Monday, December 28, 2009
nntaleb: Note 118 www.fooledbyrandomness.com/notebook.htm
Sunday, December 27, 2009
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Great story about Eisenhower’s own Black Swan as well.
According to Taleb in “The Black Swan”, the human mind suffers from three ailments when it comes to looking back and understanding history, or even the events that shape our own …
Sunday, December 27, 2009
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With NNT on hiatus as it were, my attention is being drawn to people who are talking about his ideas. I don’t really have the time (or smarts really) to do point by point analysis of each individual’s application (or criticism ) of N…
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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This links to NNT’s Amazon book reviews. HatTip to Dave Lull.
Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences by Jon ElsterEdition: PaperbackPrice: $23.76Availability: In Stock39 used & new from $19.73 …
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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In the interest of at least appearing to have some balance, from time to time I’ll share a well-written, intelligent criticism of NNT. This is by Eric Falkenstein, author of Finding Alpha.
Nassim Taleb is a former trader who wrote a …
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Nassim Nicholas Taleb の "Fooled by Randomness" を(すでに図書館で借りて読んでるんだけどいつでも好きな時に参照できるようにと)思い切って購入した。経済書に分類されているが経済に関
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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Think I missed this. From July, 2009
The core of the problem, the unavoidable truth, is that our economic system is laden with debt, about triple the amount relative to gross domestic product that we had in the 1980s. This does not s…
Monday, December 21, 2009
Jason Calacanis (Jason and NNT actually met at Edge Master Class 2009) is a serial entrepreneur currently the founder of Mahalo.com. He also hosts ThisWeekInStartups.com, a weekly online tv show featuring interviews with web entrepreneurs. But he also plays poker. So he invited professional poker player Annie Duke onto the show for a special [...]
Friday, December 18, 2009
HatTip to Dave Lull
117- Postscript to The Black Swan (second edition, paperback inUS): Where I Lose All Inhibitions and State That It Is The MostRelevant Problem in the History of Thought Until The Black Swan (…
Friday, December 18, 2009
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From 1997!
Against VARBy Nassim TalebPhilippe Jorion is perhaps the most credible member of the pro-VAR camp. I will answer his criticism while expanding on some of the more technicalstatements I made during the interview (Derivative…
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Nassim Taleb su finanza, banche e crisi a margine del Discorso Bruno Leoni, Milano 16 novembre 2009 … nassim taleb istituto bruno leoni discorso 2009 crisi banche istituzioni finanziarie indebitamento debito obama mercato g20 cigno nero giocati dal caso black swan fooled by randomness
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
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This is just so fascinating to see. It’s from her second post of comments related to NTT’s The Black Swan.
Our Lord also did not seem to be in the Father’s plan when He was tried, convicted and marched up to the hill of Golgotha to…
Speaker: Nassim Taleb Playlist: www.youtube.com The “La Ciudad de las Ideas 2009 Re-Evolution” Festival witnessed a very exciting event, where great theologists, philosophers and thinkers debated over the eternal conflict between science and religion, reason with faith and Darwin vs The Bible. The opinions and views expressed are strong, we recommend open-mindedness for its enjoyment. Debaters: Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett (new atheists) vs. Shmuley Boteach, Dinesh D’Souza …
Speaker: Nassim Talib Playlist: www.youtube.com The “La Ciudad de las Ideas 2009 Re-Evolution” Festival witnessed a very exciting event, where great theologists, philosophers and thinkers debated over the eternal conflict between science and religion, reason with faith and Darwin vs The Bible. The opinions and views expressed are strong, we recommend open-mindedness for its enjoyment. Debaters: Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett (new atheists) vs. Shmuley Boteach, Dinesh D’Souza …
“Reality is far more vicious than Russian roulette. First, it delivers the fatal bullet rather infrequently, like a revolver that would have hundreds, even thousands of chambers, instead of six. After a few dozen tries, one forgets about the existence …
opinions and views expressed are strong, we recommend open-mindedness for its enjoyment. Debaters: Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett (new atheists) vs. Shmuley Boteach, Dinesh D’Souza, Nassim Taleb (theists), and Robert Wright (neutral). Original full-length video (2:16:26): www.youtube.com With Spanish narration (2:22:42): www.youtube.com YouTube channel: LaCiudaddelasIdeas … LaCiudaddelasIdeas debate Ciudad Ideas 2009 Re-Evolution Sam Harris Christopher Hitchens Daniel …
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Or run it through Google translate. http://translate.google.com/#de|en|
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