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Author:
Mark Blyth a
(Show Biography)
Affiliation:
a Department of Political Science, Brown University, Providence, RI
DOI:
10.1080/08913810903441385
Publication Frequency:
4 issues per year
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Poker has always been compared to the stock market with its risk-to-reward and long-term approach mentality, but these comparisons are usually cited in a generalized way, and always struck me as more philosophical than absolute –where the analogies c…
Audio Only: Daniel Kahneman & Nassim Taleb at DLD 2008 One of the most anticipated talks at DLD 2009 brought together essayist and former mathematical trader Nassim Taleb, nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman (Princeton University) and John Brockman, publisher of Edge in Munich. View the complete 1 hour DLD video of the session “Reflections on a [...]
One of the most anticipated talks at DLD 2009 brought together essayist and former mathematical trader Nassim Taleb, nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman (Princeton University) and John Brockman, publisher of Edge in Munich. View the complete 1 …
DLD (Digital – Life – Design) is a three-day experience gathering 800 entrepreneurs, investors, philantropists, scientists, artists and creative minds from all over the world. With global diversity in attendees and an interdisciplinary perspective of d…
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Taleb openly despises those in “suits”—very often mainstream economists or students of finance—who make predictions without bothering to study the record of their previous forecasts. Taleb de…
Finally, a bonus hero: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the trader-turned-author of The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness. Taleb warns us not to ignore low-probability events at the ‘long tail’, as the effect of these ‘Black Swans’ can be catastrophic. Also, h…
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Aha! Now we see where all those tweets were coming from. Links above to full list. HatTip to Dave Lull.
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A few Aphorisms
In science you need to
understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand
it.
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I am often asked by journalists for a list of my “favorite
books” –I don’t know what “favorite” means for a
journalist. I treat books as friends; you miss them when you don’t
see them for a while. Perhaps the bes…
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Today’s Pic: Rare Black Penguin
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