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Nassim Taleb Lashes Out On Twitter – Business Insider

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Nassim Taleb Gets Into Historic Twitter Brawl, Shows Everyone How ANTIFRAGILE He Is 1/26 It all started with a simple generalization, as Twitter conversations often do @nntaleb Never buy a product that the owner of the company that makes it doesn’t use (Generalized Skin in the Game) https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151449726048375&id=13012333374 via Nassim Taleb Lashes Out On Twitter [...]

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Twitter / nntaleb: @rongalloway When banks start …

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Nassim N. Taleb ‏@nntaleb @rongalloway When banks start accepting bitcoins, it will be a home run. via Twitter / nntaleb: @rongalloway When banks start ….

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Twitter / nntaleb: @aoanla I focus on fragility …

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Nassim N. Taleb ‏@nntaleb @aoanla I focus on fragility of representation and model error (metaprobability)… http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/precautionary.pdf … via Twitter / nntaleb: @aoanla I focus on fragility ….

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Twitter / nntaleb: This is the central argument missing from the Salon piece

Monday, December 3, 2012

nntaleb Nassim N. Taleb @AchimMuellers Thanks this is the central argument missing from the Salon piece pic.twitter.com/wl9UkhmC via Twitter / nntaleb: @AchimMuellers Thanks this ….

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Twitter / nntaleb: @gregoliver_ @dgardner Precision …

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Dan Gardner ‏@dgardnerIf you can identify a clear definition of “black swan,” that Taleb has consistently applied, I will give you a C-note.http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/24/nassim-taleb-antifragile-finance-interview…Nassim N. Taleb ‏@nntaleb @gregoliver_ @dgardner Precision in scientific terms. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_31K_MP92hUNjljYjIyMzgtZTBmNS00MGMwLWIxNmQtYjMyNDFiYjY0MTJl/edit?hl=en_GB(Links to 400 pages of NNT’s technical papers.) via Twitter / nntaleb: @gregoliver_ @dgardner Precision ….

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What I say is HERE and HERE ONLY

Monday, November 26, 2012

This is the fact that should make sympathetic readers of Taleb pause: we have had at least two major global crises in recent years – the financial crisis in 2007-08 and the European banking crisis in 2011 – and yet the payoff to option buyers from those events has not even covered the carrying costs [...]

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Twitter / nntaleb: Until Dec 14, my friend.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

John Durant ‏@johndurantNassim Taleb is tweeting again: @nntaleb   Nassim N. Taleb Nassim N. Taleb ‏@nntaleb@johndurant Until Dec 14, my friend. via Twitter / nntaleb: @johndurant Until Dec 14, my friend..

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Twitter / nntaleb: @ModeledBehavior This explains …

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

  Nassim N. Taleb ‏@nntaleb @ModeledBehavior This explains a bit http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/ECONOMIST2013.pdf …   via Twitter / nntaleb: @ModeledBehavior This explains …. http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/ECONOMIST2013.pdf [more]

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Felix Salmon

Saturday, October 20, 2012

He’s back! HatTip to Dave Lull. This morning, Nassim Taleb returned to Twitter, posting one of the technical appendices to his new book. And immediately he got into a wonderfully wonky twitterfight/conversation with Daniel Davies. I don’t pretend to understand all the subtleties of the conversation between the two, but, for Tom Foster, here’s an [...]

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Technical Papers Update

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

NNT posted to his Twitter… Fixed Tech Collection (added 50 pages) http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/Technicalpapers.pdf

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nntaleb: Finished My Central Paper http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1669317

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

nntaleb: Finished My Central Paper http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1669317

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nntaleb: The commodification paths: from hunting to farming to artisanry to industry; and from love to marriage to gold-digging to prostitution

Sunday, August 29, 2010

nntaleb: The commodification paths: from hunting to farming to artisanry to industry; and from love to marriage to gold-digging to prostitution

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nntaleb: The Magnificent, Note 133, www.fooledbyrandomness.com/notebook.htm

Friday, August 27, 2010

nntaleb: The Magnificent, Note 133, www.fooledbyrandomness.com/notebook.htm

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nntaleb: Why did the CRISIS Happen? http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1666042

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

nntaleb: Why did the CRISISHappen? http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1666042

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nntaleb: “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical: Practical Aphorisms”, N N Taleb (of Amioun), c. Jan 2011 www.fooledbyrandomness.com/aphorisms.pdf

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

nntaleb: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical & Practical Aphorisms”, N N Taleb (of Amioun), c. Jan 2011 www.fooledbyrandomness.com/aphorisms.pdf

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nntaleb: @felixsalmon sees with clarity: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/08/16/the-mess-that-is-deposit-insurance/

Monday, August 16, 2010

nntaleb: @felixsalmon sees with clarity: http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.reuters.com%2Ffelix-salmon%2F2010%2F08%2F16%2Fthe-mess-that-is-deposit-insurance%2F

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nntaleb: Forget 2300 p of reg; problems are cured at the source with the RISK GOLDEN RULE: “Captains go down with ships, all captains & all ships”.

Friday, July 30, 2010

nntaleb: Forget 2300 p of reg; problems are cured at the source with the RISK GOLDEN RULE: “Captains go down with ships, all captains & all ships”.

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nntaleb: Why Deficits are dangerous (concave) I explain here: http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/OxfordBTLecture.pdf

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

nntaleb: Why Deficits are dangerous (concave) I explain here: http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/OxfordBTLecture.pdf

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nntaleb: (20 more aphorisms before the book is completed…did 13 this morning so far)

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

nntaleb: (20 more aphorisms before the book is completed…did 13 this morning so far)

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nntaleb: Added derivations of why large will eventually break (& why economists are largely charlatans); www.fooledbyrandomness.com/OxfordBTLecture

Sunday, July 25, 2010

nntaleb: Added derivations of why large will eventually break (& why economists are largely charlatans); www.fooledbyrandomness.com/OxfordBTLecture

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nntaleb: The more I read him, the more I realize John Gray (the philosopher not the pop-psych) is the greatest and most lucid thinker on the planet.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

nntaleb: The more I read him, the more I realize John Gray (the philosopher not the pop-psych) is the greatest and most lucid thinker on the planet.

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nntaleb: Excerpts from my lecture www.fooledbyrandomness.com/OxfordBTLecture

Monday, July 19, 2010

nntaleb: Excerpts from my lecture www.fooledbyrandomness.com/OxfordBTLecture

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nntaleb: I wonder if Gregg Easterbrook will do the honorable thing of removing his NYT review of The Black Swan.

Monday, July 19, 2010

nntaleb: I wonder if Gregg Easterbrook will do the honorable thing of removing his NYT review of The Black Swan.

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nntaleb: (in the process of deleting all past aphorisms owing to copyright matters)

Saturday, July 17, 2010

nntaleb: (in the process of deleting all past aphorisms owing to copyright matters)

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nntaleb: Half of life’s sucker problem can be summarized with the pig staring at pearls; the other half is with what you are staring at right now.

Friday, July 9, 2010

nntaleb: Half of life’s sucker problem can be summarized with the pig staring at pearls; the other half is with what you are staring at right now.

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