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NNT’s Review of Hardeep Singh Puri’s ‘Perilous Interventions’

55 of 55 people found the following review helpful 5.0 out of 5 stars Solid Book on Interventionism, Should be Mandatory Reading in Foreign Affairs, January 9, 2017 Review By  N N Taleb This review is from: Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos (Hardcover) This is an outstanding book on the […]

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Strength Training is Learning from Tail Events | Medium 11/6/16

Finally, the body is extremely opaque; it is hard to understand the exact physiological mechanisms. So we would like to make sure our methodology is robust and can stand the judgment of time. We have had theories of how muscles grow; these come and go. We have theories of nutrition; these come and go — the most […]

Foreword to Ed Thorp’s Memoirs (A Man for All Markets) | Medium

Link to article. Foreword to Ed Thorp’s Memoirs (A Man for All Markets) Ed Thorp is the first modern mathematician who successfully used quantitative methods for risk taking –and most certainly the first mathematician who met financial success doing it. Since then there have been a cohort, such as the Stony Brook whiz kids –but […]

Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People | Stephen Wolfram

The Real Thing, a Jewel., July 28, 2016 N N Taleb This review is from: Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People (Hardcover) The general public is usually supplied by books on mathematical scientists written by “science communicators” and other outside observers–the worst by far being the academic historians […]