More follow-up from NNT’s recent Stevens Institute talk.HatTip to Dave Lull. Here’s a quote from the prologue of Antifragility, which should give you a sense of Taleb’s substance and style: “This book is about how to domesticate, even dominate, even conquer, the impenetrable, the unseen, the non-understood, the opaque, the perplexing, and the inexplicable. Wind [...]
Saturday, January 28, 2012
About a recent NNT talk. I hope there’s audio. HatTip to Dave Lull. “The Triad” is Taleb’s system to categorize entities as fragile, robust, or anti-fragile. Some basic examples follow: debt would be considered fragile; equity, robust; and venture capital equity, anti-fragile. A nation-state would be considered fragile, while a city-state would be considered anti-fragile. [...]
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That’s next Tuesday! In New Jersey. Hope they record it! HatTip to Dave Lull. DeBaun Auditorium 6 PM A talk by Nassim Taleb. Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 6-7:30. DeBaun Auditorium. A professor of risk engineering at New York University, Taleb argued in his 2007 blockbuster The Black Swan that unpredictable events, “black swans,” have a [...]
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
I reported NNT’s RSA talk and pdf notes back in December, 2011 . The YouTube video just became available.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
The Predictability of Unpredictability 1st Dec 2011; 18:00 Listen to the audio (full recording including audience Q&A) Please right-click link and choose “Save Link As…” to download audio file onto your computer. Download Nassim Taleb’s presentation (pdf) RSA Keynote Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the brilliant and controversial author of The Black Swan, described in the [...]
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
THE STEVENS CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY POLICY AND ETHICS AND THE CENTER FOR SCIENCE WRITINGS PRESENT:”ANTIFRAGILITY: Curbing the Harmful Effects of Finance, Technology, Medicine and Government.” A talk by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 6-7:30. DeBaun Auditorium.Nassim Nicholas Taleb rocked the worlds of finance and government in 2007 with his runaway bestseller The Black Swan, [...]
Thursday, September 29, 2011
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 [...]
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NNT spoke earlier this year at the Goldstone Forum at the University of PA.
Nassim Taleb, author of ‘The Black Swan’, confirmed to speak at the UNEP FI Global Roundtable
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