Saturday, October 30, 2010
An interesting fellow:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PosidoniusPosidonius – Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.orgPosidonius (Greek: Ποσειδώνιος / Poseidonios, meaning “of Poseidon”) “of Apameia” (ὁ Ἀπαμεύς) or “of Rhodes” …
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The Eagle will not feed on flies.
النسر ما بيلقط دبان
Thursday, October 28, 2010
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NNT to launch his new book Dec.7 at this free public London School of Economics event. They say podcasts of the event should be available a few days later! You know where to find it.
STICERD public lecture
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
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NNT with Umberto Eco, in the library. I see only a slight resemblance.
A Day in Heaven
Thursday, October 28, 2010
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Have been interested in Stoicism since hearing NNT talk about it. This book might be a good way in.
On adopting Stoicism, I discovered how much the world has changed since the philosophy was first formulated. Back then, if you told s…
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Those who prefer the traditional meal to the ingestion of pills realize that eating is a specific operation, not just the satisfaction of nutritional needs (though nerds in the 1960s thought it was foolish to use dishes not pills etc.); yet the same pe…
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
A just person is someone who takes less than he is entitled to by law -out of strength.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
On my way to Milan to drink Lebanese wine… in Umberto Eco’s library (the real, not the figurative one).
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
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Article includes link to Russ Roberts rap!
NASSIM Taleb was (almost) our last speaker of the day at the Buttonwood gathering and I recorded an interview with him for our Tea with The Economist slot, which will appear in due course. H…
(CONT) My answer is simply along the broader line of my work on ROBUSTNESS: goods, objects, and pieces made for pride and ego (artisans, artists, writers), not for gain (to satisfy earnings per share or academic credentials) can sustain the test of tim…
The non-natural & alienating aspect of technology shows in the following: an old version of a technological or modern object looks shabby today but not at the time it was new -say, an old Macbook Pro, Ipod, or an old model of your current car. Not …
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Antifragility, Robustness, and Fragility, Inside the ‘Black Swan’ Domain
Nassim Nicholas Taleb NYU-Poly
September 2010
Abstract:
This discussion makes the distinction inside the Fourth Quadrant …
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Statistical Undecidability
Raphael Douady RiskdataNassim Nicholas Taleb NYU-Poly
October 12, 2010
Abstract:
Using the metadistribution of possible distributions for a given measure, we define a conditi…
Saturday, October 23, 2010
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Hints of the new book. HatTip to Dave Lull.
137- The Science of Antifragility, an Ignored Ubiquitous Concept
Just as a package sent by mail bears a stamp “fragile” on it, “handle with care”, imagine the opposite: “please mishandle” …
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Proverbiorum Arabicorum, 1623- Scaliger my hero, said to be the most erudite man in history. A classicist, he read all ancient languages (including Arabic and Syriac) and compiled and translated Arabic proverbs.lebanese wines
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Full Text of the Tribute to Benoit Mandelbrot(Thanks Pradeep)http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/TIMEBenoitM.pdfhttp://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/TIMEBenoitM.pdfwww.fooledbyrandomness.com
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NNT’s tribute to Benoit Mandelbrot. Unforunately, the rest of it is behind a pay wall for now.
“Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones … and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line,” wrote Benoît …
The week of total silence has now ended. Benoit M. was buried last night in Yale. A larger public memorial ceremony is scheduled for January.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
MATHEMATICS is a curious subject. Though often classed as one, it is not really a science. That scientists use it to describe their interpretation of reality is not quite the same thing. Nor, though, is it an art—not, at any rate, in the…
In May, Nassim Taleb Tweeted, “Mandelbrot’s genius is in achieving aesthetic simplicity without having recourse to smoothness; producing harmony in highly jagged surfaces”
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Greatness starts with the absence of shame for one's imperfections & small defects.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1691165SSRN-Statistical Undecidability by Nassim Taleb, Raphael Douadypapers.ssrn.comSSRN-Statistical Undecidability by Nassim Taleb, Raphael Douady
Virtue is having one, or more than two, partners.
It is rare for admiration not to decay.
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