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Monthly Archives: December 2010

Got some news from the author Jamie Whyte who wrote to say he repents & "felt shitty".

Got some news from the author Jamie Whyte who wrote to say he repents & "felt shitty". I will not relent. Why? Think of all these helpless authors. Because of the principle of symmetry reviewers should go down with their review. Authors a…

Something to report: Nader endorses the idea to "make captains go down with ships…

Something to report: Nader endorses the idea to "make captains go down with ships; all captains & all ships" –as the central problem in society is "asymmetry" & we need to remove it in complex systems. As a consumer advocat…

In the wake of wikileaks…

In the wake of wikileaks, I wonder if hackers can partake of a revolution since nerds are (with rare, very rare exceptions), just like academics, devoid of physical courage.

Book review: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms – Scotsman.com News

No readers of The Black Swan, Fooled By Randomness or any of Taleb’s academic writings about economics, probability, risk, fragility, philosophy of statistics, applied epistemology, etc, will question whether he is qualified to dish out wisdom. And non…

Mother nature cares about life, not the living.[Life is antifragile at the expense of the living; economic systems are antifragile by making single entities break. etc.]

Mother nature cares about life, not the living.[Life is antifragile at the expense of the living; economic systems are antifragile by making single entities break. etc.]