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First Lecture in the Philosophy of Probability

As mentioned in an earlier Tweet from NNT, here’s the link to his recent Princeton philosophy dept. lecture. Title suggests there will be more. Certainly hope so, although for the more general ‘reader’ such as myself, I do wish someone would create a ‘Fat Tony’ version notes page.
http://fooledbyrandomness.com/philo-lecture.htm
For some reason the audio file (direct download [...]

The Russian Forum Debate: Marc Faber, Hugh Hendry, Nassim Taleb

Aha! Made it to YouTube.Nassim Taleb (Synopsis): Go no-risk with a small percent and high-risk with the rest. For the speculative component, short the S&P and be long in precious metals; bet on hyperinflation with OTM calls on gold and puts on bonds; short USTs as long as Bernanke and Summers are in office; trade [...]

Converting Debt to Equity: Nassim Taleb at The New Yorker Summit

From May 20 2009. Pretty sure I saw this before but somehow it didn’t make it to the site.

nntaleb: Connection with the Cavemen diet (the NYT article) www.fooledbyrandomness.com/whyIwalk.pdf

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From the new book? NNT Twitter posts link to 7 pg. chapter entitled “Why I Do All This Walking, or How Systems Become Fragile”
nntaleb: Connection with the Cavemen diet (the NYT article) www.fooledbyrandomness.com/whyIwalk.pdf

Entrevista Nassim Taleb (1)


Entrevista Nassim Taleb (1) Primera parte de la entrevista de Charlie Rose a Nassim Taleb. Incluye subtitulos en castellano. Transcripción completa en: http://babalum.wordpress.com/2008/08/… Me ha costado entender algún pasaje, se admiten sugerencias y correcciones en los subtitulos.