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Nassim Taleb Educates a Quant

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?

Clay Shirky and Nassim Taleb discuss internet democracy on BBC

newsnight discussion about internet freedom I got this from Dailymotion, but it origintates at the BBC.

Time’s 10 Questions for Nassim Taleb

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

Black Swan Wisdom CNBC Power Lunch

HatTip to Dave Lull.

AntiFragility Explained

NNT posted this to his Facebook page today. Reporter “Now I’m afraid readers are going to have to wait a little while for this book, right…NNT ” Five years maybe.”

Taleb Says Fed Policymakers `Do Not Understand Risk’

The risks stemming from the Federal Reserve’s efforts to stimulate the economy through bond purchases are “humongous” and the central bank doesn’t fully understand the potential effects, said Nassim Taleb, author of “The Black Swan.” “These people do not understand risk,” Taleb said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “InsideTrack” program with Erik Schatzker. He [...]

And Now A Word From Our… Huh?

This bubbled up today. Does it signify NNT’s adaptation by the mainstream?

Dr Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Taleb at The Economist’s Buttonwood Gathering

Benoit Mandelbrot, 1924-2010

In May, Nassim Taleb Tweeted, “Mandelbrot’s genius is in achieving aesthetic simplicity without having recourse to smoothness; producing harmony in highly jagged surfaces”