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Monthly Archives: December 2013

43 Brilliant Musings From Nassim Taleb’s Facebook Page – SFGate

Quite a predicament to be both evil and risk averse.It is a sad situation to be boring without being virtuous.It takes a lot of skills to be virtuous without being boring.People laugh out loud and broadcast their laughter when they’re worried about the statement that they purportedly find funny. They would smile – perhaps surreptitiously […]

Friends, Happy Holidays for All and Merry Christmas…

Friends, Happy Holidays for All and Merry Christmas for those who celebrate it.With gratitute for another year of conversation and depth! via Friends, Happy Holidays for All and Merry… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Here is a question on exercise for the naturalistic experts…

Here is a question on exercise for the naturalistic experts such as Guru Anaerobic and others about muscle tension, “knots” and matters that require curative intervention.—When you lift heavy weights, you tend to develop “knots” in some areas, painful lumps of muscle fibers, the result of an uneven sudden tension. My personal experience: clean and […]

PLEASE SHARE VIA NEGATIVA RULES. I am quite certain that new year resolutions don’t really work…

PLEASE SHARE VIA NEGATIVA RULES. I am quite certain that new year resolutions don’t really work, are more wishful thinking (gyms are full in January and empty in February)… except that interdicts have worked in history: halal/kashrut dietary laws, etc. I have personally never been successful with positive resolutions, but have been with stated negative […]

Answer to Quiz: The extreme is not an estimate…

Answer to Quiz: The extreme is not an estimate of the average. Assuming one can define happiness, a measure in the “tails”, that is the suicide rate, provides a near-random estimate of the average. Likewise counting the super-rich doesn’t give an idea of the wealth of a country. It is much more of a measure […]