Saturday, December 17, 2011
2400 years ago, we were ahead. Way ahead. www.fooledbyrandomness.com/protagoras.pdf via Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Added a section to the text with the Alan Blinder problem. http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/ethics.pdf via Added a section to… | Facebook.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Get it while it’s hot! NNT often kills pdf links after a few days. A little tough: My chapter naming names. http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/ethics.pdf www.fooledbyrandomness.com via A little tough: My… | Facebook.
Also filed in
|
|
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 [...]
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Seneca was a stoic, but not that type of stoic. Rewrote the section to make it clear. www.fooledbyrandomness.com/Seneca.pdf via Seneca was a stoic,… | Facebook.
Also filed in
|
Tagged Seneca
|
Saturday, November 12, 2011
[Unfortunately the link is broken. I don't have the pdf and NNT is pretty clear about not sharing the documents he posts to FooledByRandomnexx.com anyway.] The continuation of Seneca’s asymmetry: “Fragility is the new blue”. I need to find the person who wrote it to give proper credit. http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/fragility-blue.pdf via The continuation of… | Facebook.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Finally found a way to explain the central asymmetry of life leading to nonlinearities (convexity effects) www.fooledbyrandomness.com/Seneca.pdf via Finally found a way….
Also filed in
|
|
A link from NNT’s homepage. Chapter 4. Thales’ Secret, or The Intelligence of Antifragility (pdf) I landed early (once) — A simple heuristic to get an inheritance — Where we discuss the idea of doing instead place of walking the Great Walk — Where the philosophers’ stone was staring at us — ideas matter less [...]
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
The Problem is Beyond Psychology: The Real World is More Random than Regression Analyses
Nassim Nicholas Taleb NYU-PolyDaniel G. Goldstein London Business School
International Journal of Forecasting, Forthcoming
Abstract:
Where t…
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 [...]