Great Problems Require Simple Solutions J-L RheaultSpotted by Rupert Read
Also, friends, someone mentioned here that Brazilian helicopter pilots require maintenance workers to take random rides. Is there a reference somewhere? Thanks.Indian state orders headteachers to taste all school lunches
Order comes after 23 children died earlier this week from eating a school lunch contaminated with pesticide
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Maybe it is time for an outsider, and Paddypower has duly supplied one, putting iconoclast Nassim Nicholas Taleb as a 1000-1 shot in a field of a dozen potential candidates. Taleb, best known for the concept of the black swan, the big-impact, hard-to-predict outlier, is tough-minded, understands risk and, unlike most of the competition, wants bankers to truly have skin in the game.
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As you age, or get richer, you have more duties than privileges, especially if you have the physical, financial or intellectual means. There is nothing more debasing than a rich old person trying to hide his age and chasing culinary (and other) pleasures; there is nothing more dignified than an experienced aged person who is now a resource for society (broad or narrow), with the respect-worthy role of the “elder”. And in general, no privilege without obligation, and no obligation without respect.
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cont. We know that A students end up working for a C-minus entrepreneur. But what about science?
The problem is that because science is instutionalized, it is impossible for a mediocre student to do science unless one has, like Charles Darwin, f-you money. They don’t accept C-minus students in Grad School, and in scientific PhDs they throw you out rather quickly if you are not good at exams. Very, very few managed to escape through the net: a brilliant case is here. This fellow Stephen Smale is a giant of modern mathematics.Looking at studies to extract the bias and test my hunch that scientific contribution peaks at C to B-minus record.
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Taleb’s Facebook — which boasts 33,000+ followers — is truly a must-like for anyone interested in success, failure, Brooklyn, the modern condition, philosophy, the sordid state of journalism, or all of the above.
Here are Taleb’s 35 most important observations. Each is a quote.
The artificial gives us hangovers, the natural inverse-hangovers.
The only problem with the last laugh is that the winner has to laugh alone.
Intelligence without imagination: a deadly combination.