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Monthly Archives: October 2013

Friends, some advice. It looks like a few academic presses…

Friends, some advice. It looks like a few academic presses are interested in publishing my mathematical book (with some peer-reviewing). It would be the technical version of the INCERTO and I will keep the copyright to include as appendices in the consolidated volume.Which title works best? a- Lectures on Probabilityb- Probability and Risk in the […]

This fellow obviously wished he were a Talmudic scholar instead of a real estate mogul…

This fellow obviously wished he were a Talmudic scholar instead of a real estate mogul. If true, I wonder how many “successful” people are leading the life the environment (and others) want them to lead. True, one has to assume that many “I wish I did x instead of y” are episodic rather than deep; […]

Those with brains but no balls often become mathematicians…

Those with brains but no balls often become mathematicians; those with balls but not brains join the mafia; and those with no brains and no balls become economists. There are exceptions (for mathematicians). via Those with brains but no balls often become… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

THE VINDICATION OF SKEPTICISM (AKA SKEPTICAL EMPIRICISM)

THE VINDICATION OF SKEPTICISM (AKA SKEPTICAL EMPIRICISM): knowledge grows by 1) negative empiricism, or 2) “tight” logical/mathematical proofs and arguments (not “loose” as in social science using naive mathematics), certainly not by confirmatory empiricism. This is the problem of induction in the making. The current understanding of science mistakes it for “naive” empiricism instead of […]

In a conflict, people who claim they “don’t have…

In a conflict, people who claim they “don’t have an opinion either way” tend to side against the injured or weaker side. via In a conflict, people who claim they “don’t have… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.