Thursday, January 6, 2011
Another C-Span video interview. This one should be embeddable, but it’s not. The link does, however load directly to the spot in the interview where Malcom Gladwell discusses Nassim Taleb. Q&A with Malcolm Gladwell Nov 30, 2009 C-SPAN | Q&A Malcolm Gladwell, best-selling author and writer for “The New Yorker” magazine, spoke about his writing [...]
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Shared by JohnH
Two C-Span videos from 2007 just popped up. I haven’t seen either of them! I don’t seem to be able to embed the video. I’ll also look for audio downloads and post the links if I find them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb talked about his book …
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Charles Murray and Nassim Taleb discussed their research on interpretations of historical achievement and great human accomplishments, including the analysis of unexpected events throughout history. After their presentations they responded to audience …
Friday, December 24, 2010
Watch the full episode. See more Tavis Smiley.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Shared by JohnH
What if NNT had is own show! That I’d watch.
Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) — New York University professor Nassim Taleb talks about his new book “The Bed of Procrustes.”
Taleb, author of “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Im…
Also filed in John
|
Tagged accountability, aphorisms, Aquinas, bloomberg, captain down with his ship, danny kahneman, Davos, debt, europe has a diagnosis, financial regluation, forecasting, long walks, Markowitz, Nobel Prize, QE2, social filter, The Bed of Procustes, the sucker problem
|
Friday, December 17, 2010
“They’re trying to change the wrong variables,” he said. “Instead of changing models or accepting limitations on their models, they have an idea in their head and the world has to fit to it.” HatTip to Dave Lull
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Now you all know I’m a Taleb super-fan, but this video is excellent and hilarious. It’s not going to mean much to the general public, but to those of us following the argument it’s genius. Would love to watch NNT’s face as he saw it for the first time. I like to think that he’d get a few laughs out of it as well, but who knows?
Also filed in Haters, John
|
Tagged autism, bell curve, Benoit Mandelbrot, code farm, credit derivatives, extreme value theory, Frank Night, Nobel Prize, normal distribution, Peter Cotton, quant, regression, standard deviation, statistics, value at risk, xtranormal
|
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
newsnight discussion about internet freedom I got this from Dailymotion, but it origintates at the BBC.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
The Black Swan author’s latest, The Bed of Procrustes, is a book of aphorisms. Nassim Taleb will now take your questions.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,695031278001_0,00.html#ixzz17BeHeqlJ
Also filed in
|
Tagged agency problem, anti-fragile, antifragility, asymmetry, black swans, complex domains, debt crisis, generalist, moral sciences, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, natural systems, over-specialization
|