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Monthly Archives: November 2013

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Thursday, November 28, 2013

For imbeciles the Black Swan means “shit happens”. For intelligent people and those with skin in the game, it means “Build a solid protocol to not be the Turkey” and identify “consequential turkey domains”. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! This is our annual reminder to not be the turkey. (credit George Nasr) via Timeline Photos – Nassim […]

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A standard mistake is to do something to avoid criticism…

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

A standard mistake is to do something to avoid criticism (as opposed to doing something because it is *right*), and, what’s worse, show it. This seems trivial but smart people make the mistake all the time, not realizing the hormetic effect: critics will now have the stimulating challenge to find something else. If you are […]

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Friends, which format is better (for the textbook)

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Friends, which format is better (for the textbook), A- 1 col per page, smaller format: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/comparison1.pdf B- 2 cols per page, larger https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/comparison2.pdf A or B? Thanks a million. via Friends, which format is better (for the… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

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Another place where fancy images of the brain allow neuroscientists…

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Another place where fancy images of the brain allow neuroscientists to butcher mathematical/statistical rigorhttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_31K_MP92hUSTRzbzZnQUVjbm8/edit via Another place where fancy images of the brain… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

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More commentary on why neurobiology is a very soft science…

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

More commentary on why neurobiology is a very soft science (high dimentionality matrix/nonlinear responses). From The Black Swan (2007), less aggressive statement (it looks that mathematics leds me to get more aggressive in debunking): “For an example that justifies skepticism about unconditional reliance on neurobiology, and vindicates the ideas of the empirical school of medicine […]

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