Only academics, hacks, and other nonpractitioners use words like “practical” or “real-word” solutions in debates. [European Parliament]

To understand why the system is going bust, consider the shrinking difference between “incentive” and bribe, between socializing and gold-digging, and between compliance and cowardice.

OPEN TO PUBLIC. I am presenting the heuristic on Monday Sept 26 at Columbia. Nonliterary presentation to geeks, so a bit technical. The lecture is not entirely open to the public but open to all of you.

http://www.ieor.columbia.edu/seminars/financialengineering/2011-2012/fall/Taleb_N/seminar.html

A Map and Simple Heuristic to Detect Fragility, Antifragility, and Model Error
www.ieor.columbia.edu
SEAS Columbia University;

FRAGILITY & NONLINEARITY. A king, angry at his son, swore that he would crush him with a large stone. After he calmed down he realized he was in trouble as a king cannot break his oath. Solution: he had the stone cut into very small pebbles and had his son pelted with them. [Midrash Tehillim 6,3]

Friends I need help finding the original Hadith Bukhari for:” The learned are those who practice what they know”. Thanks.