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The Bed of Procrustes (Work in Progress)

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

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Q&A 2. Excerpt of OWP 2010 Evening Session

Friday, June 25, 2010

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.

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Nassim Taleb and the Problem with Bailouts

Friday, June 11, 2010

CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS

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Videos Posted by NYU-POLY FRE: Interview with Charles Tapiero and Nassim Taleb

Monday, June 7, 2010

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

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New Yorker Video: Nassim Taleb on Risk and Robustness

Monday, June 7, 2010

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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Nassim Taleb Issues for Investment Officers Now

Sunday, May 30, 2010

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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Nassim Taleb, on why massive spending is sparking fears of a greater financial crisis.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

  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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The Black Swan Report

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Update 8/11/10 Turns out one need only be logged in to Twitter to see NNT’s tweets. It does appear the RSS feed is also login protected. Update 8/8/10 It would appear NNT has “protected” his tweets. Not sure what that means exactly. There is the option to Send Request. Never seen that before. It looks [...]

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nntaleb: Catalogue raisonné (in progress) http://TwitPWR.com/JcO/

Monday, May 17, 2010

nntaleb: Catalogue raisonné (in progress) http://TwitPWR.com/JcO/

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nntaleb: Experimenting with 2-way dialogue on http://TwitPWR.com/IgP/

Thursday, April 29, 2010

nntaleb: Experimenting with 2-way dialogue on http://TwitPWR.com/IgP/

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