I thank you all for the help. This is part of Chapter 8 (on iatrogenics & concavity), a very very preliminary (and incomplete) draft. http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/AntiFragilityChapter8.pdfhttp://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/AntiFragilityChapter8…
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Can someone tweet-summarize this Wall Street vs computers piece so I don’t have to read it? KTB. theatlantic.com/…
Although predictions of the death of AQR and its ilk, by the writer and investor Nassim Taleb, among others, turned out to have been greatly exaggerated, worries linger, even as some high-profile quants have surged back. Taleb and the other critics thi…
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
There is No two Party System in America. Watching the budget debate, with $1.3 trillion deficit & Democrats & Republicans bickering over a $60 billion reduction… Time to realize that Republicans and Democrats are same, like the left wing and …
CONCAVITY, IATROGENICS, & JENSENS' INEQUALITY (CONNECTING DOTS): COPENHAGEN- Iatrogenics occur when we have small identifiable gains (say, avoidance of small discomfort or a minor infection) and delayed invisible large side effects (say, death)…
I’m in receipt today of a collection of emails from Janet Tavakoli. You may recall some controversy around figures NNT was quoted to have said in a GQ article. I believe I’ve posted about this elsewhere on the blog. It’s from 2009. As you know, I have no relationship with Nassim Taleb, I’m simply collecting, [...]
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How about 300 pages of reader reviews, again at GoodReads.com
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A LOT of reader reviews over at GoodReads.com
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Taleb deleted my comments, calling them nonsensical. So, I posted a new comment, telling others that Taleb apparently didn’t favor free speech, when his words were questioned. I knew there was a risk he would delete my comment, and he did. He also bl…
Friends, I need help. Looking for a list of IATROGENICS -Humans causing problems trying to “improve” things (insults to mother nature). So fat I have 1) TRANS FATS (to replace saturated fats turned out to have killed legions of people), 2) SYNTHETIC MO…
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Nassim Taleb, author of ‘The Black Swan’, confirmed to speak at the UNEP FI Global Roundtable
18.03.2011
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Names Not Numbers Symposium An annual thought leadership symposium. Multimedia Fragility, Complexity & Society (mp3) Talk with Q&A Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Former Trader and Author of ‘The Black Swan’ Q&A moderated by Matthew Taylor, RSA
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(Apollonian-Dionysian: Many attribute the idea of “creative destruction” to the economist Joseph Schumpeter (not wondering how something deep can come out of an economist), while the more erudite source it to the great K Marx, it is indeed Nietzsch…
The problem with both institutions and knowledge is that they are more easily created than destroyed.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Added to note 142 : A simple example of probabilistic perturbation leading to massive computational differences to show why there is no such thing as measurable uncertainty.http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/notebook.htm
I've received close to 600 requests for interviews on the "Black Swan" of Japan. Refused all (except a radio program, mostly because it only takes 5 min). I think for a living & write books not interviews. I wrote all I have to say i…
Alas, being forced to write this note 142http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/notebookOpacitywww.fooledbyrandomness.com(A philosophical notebook. I only put stuff here from my work in progresss. Once again, I beg you to avoid sending me the list of typos….
I sent 18 emails last week. Next week, 14. Ideally, 10.
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Audio from the BBC. Intelligence Symposium in Portmeirion, with Oceanographer sylvia Earle and painter, poet Frieda Hughes. HatTip to Dave Lull.
Lebanese- American Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of ‘The Black Swan’….
JUMPS DO NOT ALWAYS NEED ENERGY. For antifragile matters in the nonphysical (i.e., socio-economic) domain, Thom’s Catastrophe Theory does not make a difference. What matters is convexity or concavity, period.This graph gives the intuition behind my nee…
[Removed my last post wishing Saudis rioters good luck (for attempt at "day of rage" etc.) & posts that that have perishable nature to them: (can be read next year (or next decade) without any loss of relevance). Everything I post (write,...
قلبي معكم My thoughts are with the Saudi protesters tomorrow.
Technical Proof of Leverage leading to Fat Tails (uninteresting to those who do not need convincing)- Note 141http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/notebook.htmOpacitywww.fooledbyrandomness.com(A philosophical notebook. I only put stuff here from my work i…
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