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“I am adding close to 100 pages to The Black Swan (much deeper[*] philosophical material) for the paperback version (May 2010).”HatTip to Dave Lull
nntaleb: One added section to The Black Swan http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/asperg…
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Recent additions to NNT’s Notes page. HatTip to Dave Lull.
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Climate
Change and “Too Big” Polluters
I have been asked frequently on how to deal with climate
change in connection with the Black Swan idea …
Claim to be an expert: it makes people’s brains hurt. In a remarkable new study, Jan Engelmann and colleagues used fMRI to observe the brains of people who received expert advice during a financial simulation. They found that subjects thought different…
The punchline is that Niederhoffer blew up (for the second time, thereby fulfilling his own definition of a hoodoo): Last fall, Niederhoffer sold a large number of options, betting that the markets would be quiet, and they were, until out of nowhere tw…
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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
