You can see the entire talk here. Here’s the audio NNT’s portion of the panel. Click arrow to listen. NNT at The Russia Forum 2011.
Flanerie a Bruxelles en pensant a Jacques Brelhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMzAmrNS164Jacques Brel – “Amsterdam” livewww.youtube.comThis is an incredible performance of “Amsterdam” by singer Jacques Brel. Try not to get chills watching this.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Nassim Taleb asks: Is there a wiki editor here? Is there a way to block a mad & obsessive stalker from vandalizing a bio?
Sunday, December 12, 2010
The Sunday Time’s Robert Collins wrote a review of The Bed of Procrustes. It’s behind a paywall but NNT was kind enough to make it available from his site. Here’s a direct pdf download link. And thanks to Dave Lull for letting me know. Here’s an excerpt: The likes of Facebook, though, get his epistemological [...]
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
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Saturday, October 9, 2010
Some clever kids nabbed some off-the-cuff comments from Bernanke.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
International Monetary Fund, Sept 16, 2010, Washington, DC, General Lecture (morning) and Technical Workshop (afternoon) on how to detect tail-fragility.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the author of The Black Swan. He is at work on a paper called “Why Did the Crisis of 2008 Happen?”
“The captain goes down with the ship…”
Time to realize that capitalism is …
Saturday, August 14, 2010
HatTip to Dave Lull. Since aphorisms lose their charm whenever explained, I only hint to the reader the main subject of this book, which corresponds to the central theme of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, though rephrased in an aphoristic style — fooledbyrandomness.com/aphorisms.pdf
Q&A, Excerpt of OWP 2010 Evening Session with Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Author of the international bestseller The Black Swan. We live in a complex system that delivers extreme deviations. Current risk management and economic analyses methods fail us in such a system because of low predictability. What should we do in such an environment? In this evening session, Taleb will present simple rules (lower leverage, less reliance on deficit spending, less mathematical risk management) for a black swan robust economic system.
NNT enters the conversation around 5:45 NYU-POLY is the school NNT chose to teach at.iatrogenics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrogenics Interview with Morton L. Topfer Distinguished Professor and Department Chair Charles S. Tapiero and Distinguished Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb .Also on Facebook: www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=396575527762
For the inaugural video in the New Yorker Currents series, Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks with James Surowiecki about the causes of the 2008 financial crisis and the future of the economy. Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/06/video-currents-nassim-nicholas-taleb-james-surowiecki.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#ixzz0q9XOjFYM .
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HatTip to Dave Lull. ai5000 interviews Nassim TalebThis is a link to the streaming video (which wasn’t playing very well the day I discovered it. Just added the YouTube links). So I made an audio recording of it. You’ll hear a few skips and pops and the last few seconds of the video wouldn’t [...]
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FoxBusinessNetwork — May 14, 2010 — Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan, on why massive spending is sparking fears of a greater financial crisis.
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Taleb decried Academia, and Finance, the two being intimately connected. The former he rebuked because it was teaching all of the wrong things in the vulgar act of moneymaking—business; the latter for obvious reasons, being t…
Durante entrevista para a HSM, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, fala sobre como o conhecimento pode gerar confiança.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb angry with economists. The interviewer was just a journalist clueless about his ideas but he got them across anyway by …
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