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Monthly Archives: March 2013

Friends, nitpickers are welcome…

Friends, nitpickers are welcome (truly welcome) for the technical work. I posted the first 2 chapters of my textbook style document. www.fooledbyrandomness.com/textbook.pdf via Friends, nitpickers… | Facebook.

Friends, let us help Spyros Makridakis …

Friends, let us help Spyros Makridakis by nitpicking his paper showing why hypertension is overtreated & busting medical myths. All comments are welcome. www.fooledbyrandomness.com/makridakis.pdf via Friends, let us… | Facebook.

Practice teaches us is to learn to do *convex* things without a clear reason.

Practice teaches us is to learn to do *convex* things without a clear reason. The objective of systematized education is to stamp out such behavior, even pathologize it. [Opening of the Forthcoming Lecture on Antifragility at Stanford Technology Ventures]   via Practice teaches us… | Facebook.

Friends, Sarkozy provides another example of someone selling contacts and prestige stolen from the taxpayer.

Friends, Sarkozy provides another example of someone selling contacts and prestige stolen from the taxpayer. We find it shocking if someone took priesthood “for a few years” in order to acquire contacts and to subsequently take a job as a salesman for Goldman Sachs; but we accept civil service as a nice career builder … […]

Permanently “Risk-Off”

Taleb writes: “Stifling natural fluctuations masks real problems, causing the explosions to be both delayed and more intense when they do take place. As with the flammable material accumulating on the forest floor in the absence of forest fires, problems hide in the absence of stressors, and the resulting cumulative harm can take on tragic […]