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Monthly Archives: December 2013

Quiz: Som people to measure happiness in a country or region and its variations by the suicide rate…

Quiz: Som people to measure happiness in a country or region and its variations by the suicide rate. Assuming happiness can be defined, what is wrong with the method? via Quiz: Som people to measure happiness in a… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

What’s Rarer Than Black Swans?

Four Points Beginner Risk Managers Should Learn from Jeff Holman’s Mistakes in the Discussion of Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb :: SSRN

Four Points Beginner Risk Managers Should Learn from Jeff Holman’s Mistakes in the Discussion of Antifragile Nassim Nicholas TalebNew York University; Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne – Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne (CES)December 16, 2013 Abstract:Using Jeff Holman’s comments in Quantitative Finance to illustrate 4 critical errors students should learn to avoid: 1) Mistaking tails (4th […]

Economists and Quant Risk Managers have been lining up from here to Cleveland…

Economists and Quant Risk Managers have been lining up from here to Cleveland to get at the ideas of The Black Swan… For 6 years now, with nothing to report, no substance.Here is the first attack on my ideas in a decent academic journal… So full of mistakes that I will use it in a […]

Friends, Paris, Wednesday 18, Amphitheatre de la Sorbonne, free registration.

Friends, Paris, Wednesday 18, Amphitheatre de la Sorbonne, free registration. Will speak in English as it is organized by the BBC and Paris Dauphine. http://www.dauphine.fr/fr/actus/evenements/conferences-bbc/inscription-nassim-nicholas-taleb.html via Friends, Paris, Wednesday 18, Amphitheatre de la… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.