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Monthly Archives: November 2016

Nutanix .NEXT 2016 Europe – Closing Keynote, Part 3 [Nassim N. Taleb]

Published on Nov 22, 2016 Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb shares his views on what it takes to be “antifragile.”

Your Free RiskMinds Live Streaming Agenda NNTaleb Dec. 7th

Watch @nntaleb live on 7th Dec for FREE! "Your grandmother's intuitions abt #tailrisk is right". Register here https://t.co/zeBvEQmXOt pic.twitter.com/mGPrXkjgda — RiskMinds (@RiskMinds) November 22, 2016 Watch @nntaleb live on 7th Dec for FREE! “Your grandmother’s intuitions abt #tailrisk is right”. Register here: http://get.knect365.com/riskmindslive/

Syria and the Statistics of War | Medium

Trust none of what you hear, some of what you read, half of what you see goes an old trader adage. As a trader and quant/mathematical statistician, I have been taught to take data seriously, trust nobody’s numbers, and avoid people naive enough to engage in policy based on lurid but questionable pictures of destruction: […]

Incerto: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Now available at Amazon.

Syria, Shias, Monsanto, Putin, Obama, Arab Bullshit, Thaler |Twitter

@nntaleb 2/ Sharmine Narwani @snarwani has done some work on Syria. Hama casualties <5% of what was reported. More soonhttps://mideastshuffle.com/2013/02/22/the-dirty-numbers-game-in-syria/   Permalink 1:58 PM – 22 Nov 2016 @RiskMinds Watch @nntaleb live on 7th Dec for FREE! “Your grandmother’s intuitions abt #tailrisk is right”. Register here http://spr.ly/60118GLAV   ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/mGPrXkjgda”>  pic.twitter.com/mGPrXkjgda Permalink 12:00 PM – […]