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Monthly Archives: February 2013

Muscles without strength…

Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember. via Muscles without… | Facebook.

Took advantage of a misleading but positive review …

Took advantage of a misleading but positive review in Nature to compress in a short comment my entire idea of antifragility, something reviewers were not getting, hence spreading a mischaracterized version of it.http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/nature-definition.pdf via Took advantage of a… | Facebook.

Something poorly understood about skeptical philosophers…

Something poorly understood about skeptical philosophers (Hume, Sextus Empiricus, Huet, Montaigne, Pyrrho & the Pyrrhonian skeptics) is that their skepticism tends to be directed at contemporary experts, rather than traditions, which they tend to follow as a default strategy. And the crowds against which they stand up are the crowds of “experts”, or the masses […]

Antifragile Systems – IEEE Spectrum

For the first half of the last century, multipath phenomena were harmful. In radio frequency transmission they caused signal fading as different paths became variously additive or destructive. In wire-line transmission there were similar effects due to the nonuniform delay of signal frequency components, resulting in intersymbol interference and degraded speeds.These multipath impairments were eventually […]

Wisdom is…

Wisdom is overcompensation for loss of energy & strength. via Wisdom is… | Facebook.