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Nassim Taleb – The Russia Forum 2011

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 Brel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMzAmrNS164

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.

Is there a wiki editor here? Is there a way to block a mad & obsessive stalker from vandalizing a bio?

Nassim Taleb asks: Is there a wiki editor here? Is there a way to block a mad & obsessive stalker from vandalizing a bio?

Sunday Times The Bed of Procrustes Review

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 [...]

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

Oh, I Don’t Read His Stuff – Bernanke on Taleb

Some clever kids nabbed some off-the-cuff comments from Bernanke.

Technical Papers Update

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

Nassim Taleb to Speak at IMF Sept. 16 2010

International Monetary Fund, Sept 16, 2010, Washington, DC, General Lecture (morning) and Technical Workshop (afternoon) on how to detect tail-fragility.

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

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

How Would You Simplify the Financial-Reform Bill? A Freakonomics Quorum – Freakonomics Blog – NYTimes.com

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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 …