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Monthly Archives: September 2011

Lillian Reports

Had a nice email from Lillian who was able to attend NNT’s talk the other night . She gave me permission to quote her… This is the material used in the NNT presentation last evening at Columbia …The event was plagued with audiovisual gremlins but with good humor and a level of patience he is […]

The Black Swan: A riveting commentary of disturbing truths | The Trinidad Guardian

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HatTip to Dave Lull
He denounces “empirically blind savants,” rejects the Gaussian Belle Curve fixation, and champions a kind of mathematical or empirical skepticism.  He advances the theory of Professor Raimund Popper, who stat…

Volatility: Laying the groundwork for the "big one" | The Economist

And next from Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Mark Blyth:Complex systems that have artificially suppressed volatility tend to become extremely fragile, while at the same time exhibiting no visible risks. In fact, they tend to be too calm and exhibit minimal …

Algazel (a.k.a. Al Ghazali, الغزالی), the Arab (Arabic language) philosopher wh…

Algazel (a.k.a. Al Ghazali, الغزالی), the Arab (Arabic language) philosopher who figured out “Hume’s problem” ~700 years before Hume) also spelled out Adam Smith’s “pin factory” ~650 years before Smith. I am convinced that Adam Smith merely rep…

Your success depends far less on your own skills than on the mistakes of others.

Your success depends far less on your own skills than on the mistakes of others.