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Getting close to finishing the first draft of… “Fat Tails and Asymmetries”

Getting close to finishing the first draft of the book. Changed the title to “Fat Tails and Asymmetries”. Wrote a preamble.And the central message:” It is better to take risks you understand than to try to understand risks you are taking.” http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/FatTails.html Questions: There are two options, 1 academic publisher , 2 staying at Random […]

Friends, which format is better (for the textbook)

Friends, which format is better (for the textbook), A- 1 col per page, smaller format: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/comparison1.pdf B- 2 cols per page, larger https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/comparison2.pdf A or B? Thanks a million. via Friends, which format is better (for the… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

One more attempt with the title of the technical version.

One more attempt with the title of the technical version. Looks like: *Elements of Risk Engineering: Probability and Decision in the Real World* is more descriptive of the effort. I wanted Engineering in the title to stress the necessity of an anti-intellectual, nobullshit approach to risk. I rewrote the introduction to cristallize the approach. textbook.pdf […]

Friends, 1 Changed the name of the technical book to: FAT TAILS AND ANTIFRAGILITY…

Friends, 1) Changed the name of the technical book to:FAT TAILS AND ANTIFRAGILITY: Lectures on Probability, Risk, and Decisions in the Real World, which should be a completely parallel piece of work, standalone. 2) Completed the main technical points of The Black Swan, and showed IN MATHEMATICAL TERMS the limits of current probability theory and […]

Friends, the first 57 pages of my linear textbook-style treatise are online…

Friends, the first 57 pages of my linear textbook-style treatise are online. I am still in the pre-antifragility phase. Risk management is the only area in which “practical” and “no BS” are central. Comments are welcome. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_31K_MP92hURjZxTkxUTFZnMVk/edit via Friends, the first… | Facebook.