5.0 out of 5 stars The model book, May 8, 2013 By N N Taleb “Nassim N Taleb” This review is from: Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (Dover Books on Mathematics) (Paperback) There is something admirable about the school of the Russians: they are thinkers doing math, with remarkable clarity, minimal formalism, and total [...]
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Here is what I wrote in my endorsement: Emanuel Derman has written my kind of a book, an elegant combination of memoir, confession, and essay on ethics, philosophy of science and professional practice. He convincingly establishes the difference between model and theory and shows why attempts to model financial markets can never be genuinely scientific. [...]
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Sunday, November 18, 2012
I t would be easy to think, from his place in the culture, that Nassim Taleb writes those Malcolm Gladwell-style big ideas books that have been such a recent vogue: slick expansions of journalism with a self-help edge. But Taleb, the author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, is much, much more eccentric [...]
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Book Review: LE RIVAGE DES SYRTES (The opposing shore) Until I read this book, Buzzati’s “Il deserto dei tartari” was my favorite novel, perhaps my only novel, the only one I cared to keep re-reading through life. This is, remarkably a very similar story about the antichamber of anticipation (rather than “the antichamber of hope” [...]
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Which brings us to the celebrated bird whose shadow falls over his book, the “Black Swan”: those extreme, outlier events that defy augury, and which Nassim Nicholas Taleb hunted down in his book of that name. Silver’s Bayesian recipes work best in data-systems where Black Swans can never strike. Indeed, it was notable how, after [...]
Saturday, November 3, 2012
NNT reviews The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific MaverickHatTip to Hristo Vassilev & Dave Lull “I have never done anything like others”, Mandelbrot once said. And indeed these memoirs show it. He really managed to do everything on his own terms. Everything. It was not easy for him, but he end up doing it as [...]
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
5.0 out of 5 stars A Real Person in Washington: guts & thruth, September 26, 2012By N N Taleb “Nassim N Taleb”This review is from: Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself HardcoverI don’t have time for a full review for now; all I have [...]
Implies the finished work will be a hefty 450 pages! NOTES, AFTERTHOUGHTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY. The only part of the book that felt like work. May still have mistakes.www.fooledbyrandomness.com/notes.pdf via NOTES,….
Farnam Street covered NNT’s Amazon Book Review Page. Information: The New Language of Science 5 stars If you want an introduction to information theory, and, in a way, probability theory from the real front door, this is it. A clearly written book, very intuitive, explains things, such as the Monty Hall problem in a few [...]
Get it while it’s hot! (I don’t republish pdfs NNT has removed the links to). Friends, I wonder if this chapter is easy to read and get. Thanks. www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pebbles.pdf via Friends, I wonder… | Facebook.
Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, uncertainty, opacity, adventure, disorder and stressors. Yet, in spite the ubiquity of the phenomenon, there is no word for the exact opposite of fragile. Let us call this hidden property antifragility. Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness: the resilient resists shocks [...]
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Not sure if this is new, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it. New book title and approx. release date. Antifragility, Sept 2012, Random House (US) & Penguin (UK) via Nassim N. Taleb Home & Professional Page.
Longtime reader and tipster David Lemus has a new book out.Here’s a quote: “So the statistics presented as the bell curve can at most work in one world. What polemic philosopher Nassim N. Taleb has called Mediocristan and Extremistan, the former domain is where statistics can be apply to physical measurements with miniscule margin of [...]
Sunday, December 12, 2010
The Sunday Time’s Robert Collins wrote a review of The Bed of Procrustes. It’s behind a paywall but NNT was kind enough to make it available from his site. Here’s a direct pdf download link. And thanks to Dave Lull for letting me know. Here’s an excerpt: The likes of Facebook, though, get his epistemological [...]
Thursday, December 9, 2010
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Nassim Taleb’s book of aphorisms is now shipping at Amazon. The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
NASSIM TALEB: The governments have transformed private debt into public debt. Now, that’s not something very commendable, because your grandchildren — and I know you have grandchildren — your grandchildren and their children will bear the price. This is immoral.
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This title was released on May 11, 2010. Order Here. I’m on my third reading, not to mention having listened to the audio book twice, so I wasn’t sure about getting the second edition. But in his Hard Problems talk, NNT mentions having become obsessed with robustness, and that accounting for the additional 100 pages… [...]
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