Friday, February 22, 2013
Covered the audio version of this earlier on the blog. The Video of the NYPL Conversation with Daniel Kahneman is posted here (with transcripts). Note this is the 2nd time I post a link to the recording of a past event. And note that Kahneman figured out who Fat Tony was. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMBclvY_EMA via The Video [...]
Thursday, February 7, 2013
This is an audio player from NYPL Live. (Perhaps it will turn into a video player later.) The conversation took place at the New York Public Library February 5, 2013. You can also download the audio here. SOLD OUT! How do we — as individuals and as communities — make decisions when faced with uncertainty, [...]
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Interestingly, each man was asked to write a biography of seven words or less. Taleb described himself as: “Convexity. Mental probabilistic heuristics approach to uncertainty.” Kahneman apparently pleaded with the moderator to only use five words, which were: “Endlessly amused by people’s minds.” Not surprisingly these two autobiographies are descriptive of the two men’s bodies [...]
Monday, December 20, 2010
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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…
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(Borrowing this post from another blog I collect my favorites into. Danny is just such a big part of the picture when it comes to the paradigm shift implied in NNT’s philosophy, plus, they’re good friends!) … the bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? Daniel Kahneman KNOWS that [...]
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Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory Update March 2010. From the February 2010 Ted talks. Audio Only. This is such a great talk. I’m now being able to apply Danny’s insights. I don’t trust my remembering selfand so don’t bias future experience, i.e. when the thought of a specific task, chore or other [...]
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