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Non-Sissy Uncertainty: Why I Inflict Nassim “Black Swan” Taleb on My Students | Cross-Check, Scientific American Blog Network

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 [...]

Nassim Taleb presents the concept of anti-fragility – The Stute – Stevens Institute of Technology

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. [...]

The Stevens Center for Science Writings Presents: Antifragility: How to Protect Ourselves From -and Exploit –Unpredictability

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 [...]

Nassim Taleb’s “The Predictability of Unpredictability” Talk from the RSA

I reported NNT’s RSA talk and pdf notes back in December, 2011 . The YouTube video just became available.

It’s Here! RSA – The Predictability of Unpredictability

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 [...]

Talk by Nassim Nicholas Taleb at Stevens – Technology, Policy, Regulation & Ethics

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, [...]

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 [...]

Nassim Taleb | Flickr – Photo Sharing!

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World Business Forum, Buenos Aires, Hotel Hilton.Photo By (Flickr) morrissey

Nassim Taleb at the Goldstone Forum

NNT spoke earlier this year at the Goldstone Forum at the University of PA.

Nassim Taleb to speak at the UNEP FI Global Roundtable

Nassim Taleb, author of ‘The Black Swan’, confirmed to speak at the UNEP FI Global Roundtable

18.03.2011
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