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Monthly Archives: January 2011

Is Mubarak Egypt's 'black swan'? – Business 360 – CNN.com Blogs

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I spoke to best-selling author Nassim Taleb on the phone who wrote the famous business book the “Black Swan,” which identifies situations that have mathematical multiplier effect due to their unforeseen power. In…

More people died today (from nonstandard trauma) in Germany (where I am) than in Egypt.

More people died today (from nonstandard trauma) in Germany (where I am) than in Egypt. http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2011/01/30/dix-morts-dans-une-collision-ferroviaire-en-allemagne_1472700_3214.htmlDix morts dans une collision ferroviaire en A…

The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Book Review

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The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Random House

The Bed of Procrustes is the latest book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, but it diverges wildly from his other philosophical works.

(1) How credible and attention-deserving is Nassim Taleb? – Quora

His two lay books, Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan, are only samples of his work.  If you want to judge him, read his technical book Dynamic Hedging, and his published papers, starting at SSRN.com:http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_d… (There…

Anyone here from Egypt? I am trying to get sponsored by a U.S./U.K. newspaper to go to Cairo with some press card (at the cost of writing some article about Fragility/AntiFragility that would confuse the editors & hopefully be rejected). I have no interest in journalism, I just want to take a look/feel history.

Anyone here from Egypt? I am trying to get sponsored by a U.S./U.K. newspaper to go to Cairo with some press card (at the cost of writing some article about Fragility/AntiFragility that would confuse the editors & hopefully be rejected). I have no …