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@nntaleb Imbecile, these are the people from the Hama area that UK “scholars” want you to believe are “Africans” (J2 haplogroup is the Med gene). pic.twitter.com/KGycAtl7y1 Permalink 6:28 PM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Did Hama (Emesa) people have the SubSaharan phenotype? Do you know how they look? Have you seen their DNA? Hahahaha. Only in the UK Permalink 6:22 PM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Trying to figure out using @PZalloua ‘s database if Venitians left much imprint… pic.twitter.com/nk7KMPgnJc Permalink 2:22 PM – 5 Aug 2017

@GeorgeJNasr https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/778702519518187520   Permalink 12:32 PM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Writing shd be a form of risk taking. Permalink 12:23 PM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Aramaic du Jour: Qornet as-Sawda is not “Black Corner” from Arabic, but from Aramaic “Mount of Martyrs” Qarno d’Sohdeh.https://twitter.com/turlevnon/status/893862311475150849   Permalink 12:03 PM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I bet you the Facebook “Fake News” marker will be interpreted as “true uncensored news”. #Antifragilehttps://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/893906875359604736   Permalink 11:52 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I just published “Quand les chrétiens du Liban ont-ils commencé à parler français ?”https://medium.com/p/quand-les-chr%C3%A9tiens-du-liban-ont-ils-commenc%C3%A9-%C3%A0-parler-fran%C3%A7ais-faedb960cbdb   Permalink 10:26 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb (this is fun… a lot of fun) pic.twitter.com/nxRQEcyr4m Permalink 10:15 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@ektrit Taleb is the ultimate practitioner of Fuckoffism. Two parameters needed: 1) Be empirically knowledgeable. 2) Be financially independenthttps://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/893820093896982528   Permalink 10:02 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb About the wusses in UK (and other) universities. pic.twitter.com/yeDd7lpVke Permalink 9:57 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@emiliodib J’ai pu l’améliorer un peu grâce à quelques commentaires. Êtes-vous à l’origine de la remarque concernant François 1er ? Permalink 8:17 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Wusses in UK intelligentsia who hate the Pol.Cor.Gestapo yet are afraid to speak. They study in detail Ceasar, Hanbl, but they are wusses. Permalink 6:31 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@amyalkon What was done to Tim Hunt was terrible, & people (inc me) defended. @BoraZ never guilty of still-ruinous accusation http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2015/07/03/bora_zivkovic_r.html   ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/AYEXtGEZh5″>  pic.twitter.com/AYEXtGEZh5 Permalink 6:10 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb UK pol. cor. Gestapo managed to destroy EVERY researcher they went after, including Tim Hunt (Nobel) They can’t do NOTHING to me Actually… Permalink 6:04 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb You don’t fucking understand that “looking good” and *what people think of me* has NEVER been part of my agenda? Permalink 5:51 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I got >1000 insults hurled at me by the Brit IYI mob, posts on hist newsletters, etc. I am still around (haha) What wd break me? 10^5? 10^6? Permalink 5:49 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@heyjohnnyross keep up the great work NNT, their superficial walls are beginning to crumble Permalink 5:23 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The general kills the particular! pic.twitter.com/cE88fZ6w1P Permalink 5:11 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Chers amis, quelqu’un peut etre interesse a traduire en francais?https://medium.com/@nntaleb/when-did-lebanese-christians-start-speaking-french-771603969932   Permalink 5:03 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb From the Bed of Procrustes. (Why the Brits don’t like my calling Mary Beard who is a bullshitter, bullshitter): https://www.amazon.com/Bed-Procrustes-Philosophical-Practical-Aphorisms/dp/1400069971/ref=bxgy_cc_b_img_a   ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/0RN2OX3dB2″>  pic.twitter.com/0RN2OX3dB2 Permalink 5:02 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I just published “When did Lebanese Christians Start Speaking French?”https://medium.com/p/when-did-lebanese-christians-start-speaking-french-771603969932   Permalink 1:55 PM – 4 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Thought experiment: If the child does not have his father’s DNA, who will you trust, the social narrative, i.e., “history”, or the DNA? Permalink 1:03 PM – 4 Aug 2017

@BlackSwanReport #Monsanto Secret Documents @nntalebhttps://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/   Permalink 11:02 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@tlitb Is it lying when getting a TLS forum to report a twitter spat while distorting the tweets? @nntaleb @wmarybeardhttps://twitter.com/tlitb/status/893493193538326529   Permalink 10:38 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@nntaleb These UK IYIs think that just picking random insults from “manual of platitutes for low IQ historians” will stop the spread of my argument.https://twitter.com/MikeStuchbery_/status/893510188011048960   Permalink 9:37 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@nntaleb So Mr Pickard, you are confirming that you have absolutely no regards for journalistic ethics? Permalink 8:47 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@nntaleb So Mr Pickard, you are confirming that you have absolutely no regards for journalistic ethics? Permalink 8:47 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@tlitb Hmm, swapping the chron. order and hiding the clear cause of the citation retort seems pretty dodgy from a historian @nntaleb @wmarybeard pic.twitter.com/5yBer0iaeD Permalink 8:25 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@nntaleb You can shout “injustice” if someone is taller than you, require compensation for hurt feelings. Freedom of expression is ROBUST. Kapish? Permalink 7:57 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@JulianAssange Between Trump’s directness & leaks the Trump admin is the most transparent in living memory–despite its policies. Good or bad? Permalink 7:41 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@christophermah3 We’ve only had troops in Afghanistan for 16 years. Give the strategy time to work.https://twitter.com/JewhadiTM/status/893473470415343617   Permalink 7:08 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@nntaleb You need to do something about Grand Inquisitors such as @david_colquhounhttps://medium.com/incerto/something-is-broken-in-the-uk-intellectual-sphere-7efc9a1f154a   Permalink 6:53 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I just published “Something is Broken in the UK Intellectual Sphere.”https://medium.com/p/something-is-broken-in-the-uk-intellectual-sphere-7efc9a1f154a   Permalink 6:01 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@JulianAssange Why WikiLeaks is the best friend of the American peoplehttps://fighting15th.com/2017/04/16/wikileaks-is-not-our-enemy/   Permalink 4:49 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Mr. Jim Pickard @PickardJE, I understand you like fake news… but why are you proud of being unethical?https://medium.com/incerto/the-facts-are-true-the-news-is-fake-5bf98104cea2   Permalink 4:20 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@nntaleb This confirms our genetic distance based on mitocondria between Leb & further north w/@PZalloua Canaanites were not “Semitic”https://twitter.com/ancientorigins/status/893418759989456896   Permalink 4:13 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@nntaleb OK, finalized the subtitle: Skin in the Game The Underlying Matrix of Daily Life Permalink 3:47 PM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The exercise allows us to understand Fat Tails. From my book with @DrCirillo (my class notes at NYU) pic.twitter.com/XF2EeSR3vM Permalink 2:33 PM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb 1) Heuristic to get fat tails: Conditional of an event killing 1 billion in 2018, what is most likely? Pandemic Cancer Nuclear accident? Permalink 2:25 PM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Once I catch someone like Mary Beard in the act of bullshitting, I cease to read additional comments/posts by her & her friends. Kapish? Permalink 1:52 PM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Indeed, nuclear is thin-tailed & not under Precautionary P, just vigilance. Very dangerous but no systemic effects, unlike GMOs/epidemics Permalink 1:39 PM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Ad Hominem was started by Mary Beard. I turned it on her. She subsequently misrepresented the exchange. 1 designation: bullshitter. Kapish? Permalink 7:49 AM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb If that’s how Mary Beard bullshits about her exchange with me, how can anyone trust her historical reports? No more use for her. Permalink 7:29 AM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Evidence that Ms Beard is a bullshitter. She tried to degrade me to “pop risk” until I compated the “pop” to HERs. Her report. Bullshitter! pic.twitter.com/XuaYt7eLCi Permalink 7:27 AM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Deeper problem in the UK: the PolCorrect police terrorizes academics wusses & few dare speak up ag. the BS. UK Academics are too insecure. Permalink 7:18 AM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Kate Cooper and Kaitlin Green are taking the scholarly approach; it is a matter of S Med phenotype & worth engagin.Beard is useless; ignore Permalink 6:53 AM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The royal way is to quietly study quizzes on @CutTheKnotMath Permalink 6:37 AM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Some ignorance on the part of Ms Beard: classifying Pple of Tiddis, Roman times “nonwhite” equiv. to classifying London Italians as such Permalink 6:13 AM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb For those interested in our program w/ @DrCirillo to introduce statistical/probabilistic rigor into historiography. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=64BtMdsAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=64BtMdsAAAAJ:mZB2-lCpWbQC   Permalink 5:33 AM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I am sure that you agree: history shd be accurate representation of past empirical reality not cherry-picked saliency/ availability biases. Permalink 5:16 AM – 3 Aug 2017

@careygillam After release of dox showing ghostwriting, paying of scientists, @MonsantoCo seeks harsh sanctions on plaintiffs’ attorneys. Gloves are off.https://twitter.com/careygillam/status/892914920517496832   Permalink 6:25 PM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb This time I am off the hook! Figured out a proof for this case by brute force rather than thinking. pic.twitter.com/x55GhtC0wv Permalink 4:31 PM – 2 Aug 2017

@CutTheKnotMath The nature’s greatest artist: pufferfish http://1funny.com/pufferfish-courtship/   #math #mathphoto HT Lyonya Medvedovsky ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/IprpwPHcxE”>  pic.twitter.com/IprpwPHcxE Permalink 9:57 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb https://medium.com/incerto/peace-neither-ink-nor-blood-4657956c82ac   Permalink 9:03 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb A potential explanation is that Aliens abducted all of them. Hey, I am not an expert on Alien history. Permalink 7:09 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Sorry the answer is NOT there. Try again: where did the genes evaporate? Permalink 6:54 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb There is ONE & only ONE question that @wmarybeard needs to answer, & it is: “Where did the diversity genes evaporate?” All the rest is tawk. Permalink 6:34 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb So,”Astrology fails to work on data”. @wmarybeard “How many books on Astrology have you read? You don’t see the nuances” This is 2017! Permalink 6:25 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Pbm vastly more general than @wmarybeard: there is this absence of intellectual rigor in humanities, ANECDOTAL is mistaken for STATISTICAL. pic.twitter.com/gkczkA2MvZ Permalink 5:44 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb This is what people say when the data contradicts all their beliefs.https://twitter.com/wmarybeard/status/892709792468393985   Permalink 5:17 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Friends, can you find antecedents to the “availability heuristic” in the literature? Permalink 5:14 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Genetic data =>Ms Beard:”dont think you have many qualifications in nuanced historical analysis”. This is what is commonly known as bullshit Permalink 4:54 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I apologize if you perceived it as an “insult” (and BTW I’ve offered your last book as Xmas present), but I need to compress. Permalink 4:41 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The term “unsurprising” is now used as a substitute for *representative* population and “diversity”? Who are you fooling? “Scholarship?” Permalink 4:37 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Sorry Ms Beard if you are insulted by data, but here is some more. BTW Mr Morley’s blog is not “evidence”, just anecdotal reasoning. pic.twitter.com/KQ3BTEY0c5 Permalink 4:06 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The ONLY other possible explanation is that ALL the “diversity” women had no girls, ALL “diversity” men had no boys, proba ~ 1 in trillions. Permalink 3:58 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Well, Ms Beard… Scientific evidence IS available. Where did the Subsaharan genes evaporate? (w/interMed trading for 25 C.) Stop the BS. pic.twitter.com/bRfgFfNdiW Permalink 3:31 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb When @wmarybeard says “firm evidence”, god knows what this means. In science evidence is statistical, != backed up historical anecdote. Permalink 7:32 PM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb We have a clear idea of genetic distributions hence backward composition; genes better statisticians than historian hearsay bullshit. Permalink 7:09 PM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Historians believe their own BS. Where did the subsaharan genes evaporate? NorthAfricans were lightskinned. Only “Aethiopians”, even thenhttps://twitter.com/wmarybeard/status/889925415032299520   Permalink 7:08 PM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Answer in here with real world application. I did a bootstrap for variance reasons. pic.twitter.com/UDCPZJxWRE Permalink 6:12 PM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb A probability Quiz. pic.twitter.com/AIofc0udvQ Permalink 5:57 PM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Courage is the only virtue you can’t fake. Permalink 9:20 AM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Using quotes by modern psychologists is the bullshitter’s imitation of depth. #LindyEffecthttps://twitter.com/dmichaelsnyder/status/892412903357394944   Permalink 8:56 AM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb So how many of the articles by @HenryiMiller on @ProSyn are written by Monsanto? Or those he wrote against our PP http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/PrecautionaryPrinciple.html   ?https://twitter.com/garyruskin/status/892385165376278528   Permalink 7:12 AM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Why cursing signals independence, even aristocracy (same chapter in Skin in the Game) pic.twitter.com/hO2Zl3cPfJ Permalink 6:03 AM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The tragedy of Anthony @Scaramucci is that one cannot be both alpha, free, direct and … have a supervisor.https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-legally-own-another-person-4145a1802bf6   Permalink 5:36 AM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb And talking about regulators being servants to industry, say Monsanto:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/597fc800e4b0d187a5968fbf   Permalink 4:55 AM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb And talking about regulators being servants to industry, say Monsanto:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/597fc800e4b0d187a5968fbf   Permalink 4:55 AM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb https://medium.com/incerto/inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d8f00bc0cb46   Permalink 4:47 AM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb https://medium.com/incerto/inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d8f00bc0cb46   Permalink 4:47 AM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The problem is IYIs not understanding inequality https://medium.com/incerto/inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d8f00bc0cb46  https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/892143453215346689   Permalink 4:47 AM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb 11) For the Tesla, the put option embedded in lease ~ %15 of initial price. Breakeven is a 35% drop in used-car mkt. Price for uncertainty! Permalink 7:50 PM – 31 Jul 2017

@JasonL3d Yeah something snapped inside of me the other day when I finally understood this idea I got from Nassim Taleb’s bookhttps://twitter.com/jasonl3d/status/891015399847993346   Permalink 6:30 PM – 31 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 10) On the optimality of buying vs leasing (& optionality of lease), how much does a Tesla currently lose in % after 3 y &/or 36000 miles? Permalink 3:34 PM – 31 Jul 2017

@CutTheKnotMath My apologies and appreciation to every one who noticed and point out the typo pic.twitter.com/qc43Y9TAUt Permalink 1:11 PM – 31 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Time to refresh the smear artists http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/smear.html   Permalink 12:29 PM – 31 Jul 2017

@nntaleb People want to buy the argument by Pinker, via shoddy statistics, that the state LOWERED violence. It did not.https://twitter.com/catoletters/status/892024628755017728   Permalink 9:35 AM – 31 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Thing I learned today: The SP500 negative extremes follow the standard Extreme Value Distribution, not the positive extremes pic.twitter.com/HG0MOKBSHS Permalink 8:16 AM – 31 Jul 2017

@nntaleb JK Rowling should write fiction in her books not in her tweets using Virtue Signaling with children. The liar did not remove tweet. Liar. pic.twitter.com/wirfcNNRYD Permalink 7:51 AM – 31 Jul 2017

@nntaleb From genetics w @Zalloua, Church founders in Levant & AsiaMinor looked as Lebanese,same they did 3800 years ago, SAME as Southern Europeans. pic.twitter.com/OTLL9ycLPc Permalink 7:18 AM – 31 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Attempt to make church leaders look nonEuropean is a fraud. Genes show they looked like S. Europeans/Meds @PZallouahttps://medium.com/east-med-project-history-philology-and-genetics/no-jesus-was-not-a-nonwhite-refugee-who-would-have-voted-for-43779209eea4   Permalink 6:57 AM – 31 Jul 2017

@nntaleb From #SkinintheGame You get more results, more peace reducing the State Dept staff & interventionistas. pic.twitter.com/BN8tw80TVq Permalink 4:59 AM – 31 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 9) It remains that the most subsidized industries (via taxpayer stop) have been Auto & Banking. Turned both into living carcasses. #Tesla Permalink 4:16 AM – 31 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/891770632337227776   Permalink 6:38 PM – 30 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 8) I understand the EV costs energy to make. How about other cars: do they grow on trees? Permalink 4:03 PM – 30 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 7) +Battery depletion [V. small for 50k miles] +Fragility of car [have WARRANTY] I plug at home… I fail to see a compelling arg. ag Tesla. Permalink 2:08 PM – 30 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 6) Rational arguments ag. electric: +Electric =fossil [NOT in NY] +Range anxiety [99% of my driving<80m] +Refill [Plug v.convenient for me] Permalink 2:04 PM – 30 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Thing I learned today: Extremes for SP500 are independent for negative, dependent for >0. Gumbel test @DrCirillo pic.twitter.com/sKMHf60CWK Permalink 1:45 PM – 30 Jul 2017

@nntaleb In SiculoCalabrese, “Capisci” not quite pronounced “Kapish”, more like “Gabish”, w/the G almost a Semitic Qof. What shd I use in my books? Permalink 10:12 AM – 30 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Then why don’t you use petrol/diesel cell phones and laptops? Permalink 8:30 AM – 30 Jul 2017

@nntaleb (cont) Honor is necessary, but not sufficient. Tired of the sophistry w/ counterexamples from Mafia, etc. Permalink 7:51 AM – 30 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Honor and Soul in the Game pic.twitter.com/fl8Vydx2Bm Permalink 5:49 AM – 30 Jul 2017

@primalpoly Which journalists should we trust? Whoever risks assassination or ostracism by reporting on civilization’s real enemies. #skininthegame Permalink 12:27 AM – 30 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 5) Skin in the game: I waited to buy a Tesla before commenting… Permalink 11:32 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 4) Yesterday, I replaced my lemon MiniCooper Flaneurmobile with a Tesla, wondering why I didn’t do it before. Permalink 11:28 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 3) We wasted 120 years not focusing on the battery… Permalink 11:22 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 2) The Tesla needs no oil change, no regular visits to the dealer so he could overcharge you for maintenance, no nothing. Permalink 11:21 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 1) Is it me or is it that when you see a Tesla you realize there has been a conspiracy to make us drive complicated crap for 50 years? Permalink 11:15 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb This is true. I have been unfollowing/blocking every p who spread & did not retract. @jk_rowling is personally & intellectually despicable.https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/891340518206177286   Permalink 10:00 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Centrally, unlike genetics-based medicine (huge dimensionality problems), DNA is very robust to parentage. You know your origin at ~10^-10 Permalink 8:47 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Volatility clustering, roughly seen. If we dig, we can see that: 1) It is NOT self-exciting Poisson 2) It is NOT stochastic vol. “Rough Vol” pic.twitter.com/J1HEZGJJGa Permalink 8:24 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb #somethingIlearnedtoday People on the “left” have higher school scores People on the “left” can’t figure out complex systems Problem=school Permalink 8:05 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Something I learned today: The SP500 is Fat Tailed because of serial dependence. pic.twitter.com/zJFZLEdgma Permalink 6:56 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Uncomfortable for some that, in spite of claims by some of “Arab descent”, no imprint in the genes/culture. “Arab nationalism” is dead. Permalink 6:17 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb We need to rewrite history. History belongs to scientists, not historians. https://www.facebook.com/nntaleb/posts/10155103605033375   ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/YFJSK159g6″>  pic.twitter.com/YFJSK159g6 Permalink 6:10 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb This 99% chimp theory is TOTAL BS. DNA is based on genetic distance or rigorous divergence metrics, not raw comparisons. Permalink 5:51 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Canaanite discovery by @PZalloua et al supports the idea that history was LESS VIOLENT than reported by historianshttps://medium.com/incerto/peace-neither-ink-nor-blood-4657956c82ac   Permalink 5:25 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Bravo. This is the paper to read.https://twitter.com/MuhammedKambal/status/891062446433210372   Permalink 4:10 PM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Both Lister and his boss shd be in Guantanamohttps://twitter.com/ehsani22/status/891058067508535301   Permalink 3:13 PM – 28 Jul 2017

@CutTheKnotMath Problem 2 from the 2017 IMO http://www.cut-the-knot.org/m/Algebra/IMO2017_Problem2.shtml   #FigureThat #math #algebra ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/Ib3QjkW9dB”>  pic.twitter.com/Ib3QjkW9dB Permalink 10:13 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Calabrese barbers, my friends for 25 y pic.twitter.com/MjowvaUuSQ Permalink 8:14 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 4 out of the 6 Syrian kids in the Olympiad are from the minorities that the “rebels” want to ethnically cleanse. Permalink 6:35 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb An interesting style math problem from the 2017 Olympiad. (2nd most difficult) Also #FF @CutTheKnotMath who keeps us sharp with these. pic.twitter.com/lkLtOqbkUT Permalink 6:32 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Incidentally, 4 out of the 6 Syrian kids in the Olympiad are minorities. https://www.imo-official.org/team_r.aspx?code=SYR&year=2017   Permalink 6:28 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb The problem is never the problem. It is how @ForeignPolicy deals with it that is the main problem. Permalink 6:13 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Tried to portray son of Syria’s Assad as a loser who “flucked” math test. Turned out math test was Olympiad & he got Honor. Men. DESPICABLE. Permalink 6:12 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb The editor of @ForeignPolicy doesn’t know what a mathematics Olympiad is. Worse: he doesn’t want to know.https://twitter.com/benpauker/status/890916557332807680   Permalink 5:53 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb I mean right under the bronze. Permalink 5:41 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb “Never trust a journalist, except if she is your mother”, Bed of Procrusteshttps://twitter.com/Scaramucci/status/890736308498378753   Permalink 5:20 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb This needs a retraction, @benpauker. Young Hafez got an Honorable Mention, 1 rank under the silver medal. Is @ForeignPolicy so bad?https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/889845014133649410   Permalink 4:45 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@GreenRupertRead Watch/share, on climate/precaution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmcokyx6Tbk&feature=youtu.be   & See also my jt piece on exactly this with @nntaleb: http://www.blackswanreport.com/blog/2015/05/our-statement-on-climate-models/   Permalink 11:45 PM – 27 Jul 2017

@nntaleb A diagnosis for a mental disease that is 100% nonimaginary is working for CNNhttps://twitter.com/fridaghitis/status/890748661109596161   Permalink 6:46 PM – 27 Jul 2017

@nntaleb There are fit-all words such as ‘narcissistic’ that God created for idiots without a precise argument. Permalink 6:38 PM – 27 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Anthony @Scaramucci is being direct, natural, and nononsense. Get used to people who say it the way it is.https://twitter.com/EvanRFrost/status/890729509573586944   Permalink 5:25 PM – 27 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Finally, someone is using my language.https://twitter.com/Chris_arnade/status/890691079217065985   Permalink 3:54 PM – 27 Jul 2017

@nntaleb No self respecting Squid Ink eater will EVER put cheese on a fish pasta. Kapish? Permalink 3:23 PM – 27 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Squid ink with farro grain, Tbone steak and a lot of probability with statistician @philipbstark pic.twitter.com/i7G4uwUOno Permalink 3:19 PM – 27 Jul 2017

@nntaleb This is actually true. Women under “rebel” areas are treated like 2nd hand furniture.https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/890684001492631552   Permalink 2:33 PM – 27 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Confirmation of the theory that populations, once they settle in an empty spot, stay there. http://phy.so/420375602   via @physorg_com Permalink 2:10 PM – 27 Jul 2017

@nntaleb “malignant alliance betw powerful bureaucracies & MidEast allies” agst Amer interests, => terrorism” http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-cia-and-allies-trapped-obama-in-syrian-arms-debacle/   via @amconmag Permalink 6:37 AM – 27 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Anthony @Scaramucci understands health care is centrally a scaling problem! Grrrrrrrrreat news.https://twitter.com/newday/status/890181198940696576   Permalink 3:02 PM – 26 Jul 2017

@ScottAdamsSays Show me a person who has followed this sort of reading path and I’ll show you someone I want to work with.https://twitter.com/realwesmyers/status/890301665454305280   Permalink 2:54 PM – 26 Jul 2017

@nntaleb The minority rule failed to work! Why? It imposes too much costs on others.http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40729996   Permalink 10:05 AM – 26 Jul 2017

@nntaleb CAN YOU TAKE MY NAME OFF THAT CRAP? Permalink 9:38 AM – 26 Jul 2017

@nntaleb One day.https://twitter.com/romanletters/status/890226409163063301   Permalink 8:13 AM – 26 Jul 2017

@nntaleb A Copt (Egyptian Christian, pre-Arab invasion) moves to France, away from persecution, & vows to preserve France from the same invasion.https://twitter.com/JeanMessiha/status/889569976704749568   Permalink 8:11 AM – 26 Jul 2017

@DShaywitz Also – those noting serendipity relevant to drug discovery – I discussed this in @FT in 2008 w/@nntaleb https://www.ft.com/content/b735787c-5d9b-11dd-8129-000077b07658   Permalink 7:59 AM – 26 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Some pple criticizing economists because they “use math”. But they can’t even use math: they VIOLATE elementary probability theory. pic.twitter.com/6oiaoWEIkt Permalink 4:32 AM – 26 Jul 2017

@nntaleb A lesson for SaudiBarbaria Tsar Alexsndr II who freed the serfs,made reforms was assassinated You suddenly give rights, they want much more Permalink 3:44 PM – 25 Jul 2017

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@nntaleb Bullshit is not Lindy-compatible, unless it serves a risk management/survival purpose.https://medium.com/incerto/an-expert-called-lindy-fdb30f146eaf   Permalink 8:50 AM – 25 Jul 2017

@nntaleb The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle happens to be …bullshit. #metahttps://twitter.com/republicofmath/status/889864052935192576   Permalink 8:21 AM – 25 Jul 2017

@nntaleb The imbeciles who wrote the article would rank LOWER in the Olympiad than the person they are making fun of Shabby journalism,@ForeignPolicyhttps://twitter.com/ForeignPolicy/status/889588526387539969   Permalink 6:49 AM – 25 Jul 2017

@nntaleb The Syrian “rebels” helped reduce Syrian Christians by 60%. They destroyed the fabric of Ancient Syria. Thank you Donaldo.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/889672374458646528   Permalink 3:06 AM – 25 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Which produces another inequality pic.twitter.com/WkIqNimfbN Permalink 2:17 AM – 25 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Yeshttps://medium.com/incerto/no-worship-without-skin-in-the-game-70b4aa341092   Permalink 3:52 PM – 24 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Some BSer just tried to frame me as an authoritarianist. If you say “No, I am not” they prey on you by 000s. If you say “fuckoff”, they do. Permalink 3:05 PM – 23 Jul 2017

@nntaleb If you are afraid for your reputation in ANY circle, you should NOT be in academia. Or at least you should not be a scholar. Permalink 2:53 PM – 23 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Recap:Honor means that, for *some* transactions, no price & no threat will ever be high enough for you. Can’t find honor in “intelligentzia” Permalink 2:44 PM – 23 Jul 2017

@LieraMarco L’antifragilita’ di chi fa lavori artigianali: sono più felici di molti colletti bianchi e non rischiano licenziamenti e robotizzazionehttps://twitter.com/kopapacafe/status/889046978985951232   Permalink 1:38 PM – 23 Jul 2017

@nntaleb I know Anthony Scaramucci. He is a doer. He does what he says he will do.https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/889126070053728256   Permalink 11:13 AM – 23 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Those semi-intellectuals considered “intellectuals” get furious when shown the same disrespect as they have towards nonintellectuals. Permalink 5:31 AM – 23 Jul 2017

@CutTheKnotMath Problem 11867 from the American Mathematical Monthly http://www.cut-the-knot.org/m/Algebra/11867.shtml   #FigureThat #math #algebra #inequality ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/7hAKk21exo”>  pic.twitter.com/7hAKk21exo Permalink 4:49 AM – 23 Jul 2017

@nntaleb They finally got the point. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.07532.pdf  https://twitter.com/khazar_milkers/status/888916761755750401   Permalink 10:42 PM – 22 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Ha! Claim on *future* assessment of *present* positions by surveying *present* beliefs as proxy for *future* consensus by *future* pple.https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/888906963815366657   Permalink 5:12 PM – 22 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Loss of dimensionality! #Antifragilehttps://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/888895943365545984   Permalink 4:09 PM – 22 Jul 2017

@catoletters For facts on Syria follow independent British Journalist Vanessa Beeley @VanessaBeeleyhttps://thewallwillfall.org/author/farashah77/   Permalink 2:57 PM – 22 Jul 2017

@nntaleb The only thing I wrote about Julian that is vaguely negative: he thought that paganism could be a centralized religion! pic.twitter.com/7RYnM5rk6g Permalink 12:10 PM – 22 Jul 2017

@CutTheKnotMath An Inequality with Inradius and Side Lengths http://www.cut-the-knot.org/triangle/InequalityWithInradiusAndSides.shtml   #FigureThat #math #geometry #inequality ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/jo2IpBpMQ5″>  pic.twitter.com/jo2IpBpMQ5 Permalink 9:25 AM – 22 Jul 2017

@Sebastopol94 Im sure many people think Nassim Taleb is mean in public and nice in private Permalink 8:50 AM – 22 Jul 2017

@PZalloua Mitochondrial DNA shows Lebanese closer to Europe than Cyprus @nntaleb pic.twitter.com/hiYJsVWOZi Permalink 7:33 AM – 22 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Ha! As predicted, @keithkloor posts a piece saying he is not a Monsanto shill that is spread by… identified Monsanto shills. @thackerpd Permalink 7:16 AM – 22 Jul 2017

@food_democracy Breaking: Science Fraud 101 or how Monsanto pays fake journalists and dishonest scientists 2 mislead public on GMOs http://bit.ly/2to2bAN   ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/oiTu4vsMTA”>  pic.twitter.com/oiTu4vsMTA Permalink 1:55 PM – 21 Jul 2017

@nntaleb No, sorry, you will NOT stop the madness. Education will migrate from univ. into technical schools. Markets are more rational than humans.https://twitter.com/DavidBCollum/status/888392494127427584   Permalink 7:32 AM – 21 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Interesting misconduct: @keithkloor can only defend himself by using Monsanto resources! Truth is like gold; can’t bury it for long. Permalink 1:55 AM – 21 Jul 2017

@nntaleb The reason we use IF-THEN (see paper) is because NONLINEARITY (convex of concave) <=> gains (loses) of variability by theorem. Permalink 6:00 PM – 20 Jul 2017

@nntaleb This comment on the State Dept is excerpted from thishttps://medium.com/incerto/peace-neither-ink-nor-blood-4657956c82ac   Permalink 5:48 PM – 20 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Second thing done in the six month by Donaldo: Tillerson is purging the State Department of IYIs and “faux experts”. Thank you. pic.twitter.com/rgLpiqeLft Permalink 5:42 PM – 20 Jul 2017

@nntaleb In fairness to Pinker, was told he strongly favors free speech incontrasttomanyofhispeers Note that freespeech is a mechanism,unlike “Truth” Permalink 5:09 PM – 20 Jul 2017

@nntaleb “Truth” used to reflect the opposite. Soviet “Pravda” means “Truth”. Those committed to the truth don’t say they are committed to the truth.https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/887492602181939202   Permalink 4:21 PM – 20 Jul 2017

@PrisonPlanet Linda Sarsour is vile and a complete disgrace. Retweet if you agree. It’s that simple.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8FknvfSInU   Permalink 2:23 PM – 20 Jul 2017

@CutTheKnotMath An Inequality in Two Or More Variables II http://www.cut-the-knot.org/m/Algebra/InequalityInTwoOrMoreVariables2.shtml   #FigureThat #math #algebra #inequality ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/HdLrvnSgQz”>  pic.twitter.com/HdLrvnSgQz Permalink 1:36 PM – 20 Jul 2017

@nntaleb We have known that Keith Kloor is an unethical shill for a while. But will Nature post a retraction?http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/keith-kloors-endearing-love-affair-with-gmos_us_596fc0c8e4b062ea5f8eea33   Permalink 10:52 AM – 20 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Squalid imbeciles like Nick Kristof don’t pay for their mistakes & risk transfer on regular Syrians. Skininthegame.https://medium.com/incerto/on-neo-cons-and-their-mental-defects-d12685585b11   Permalink 2:45 AM – 20 Jul 2017

@nntaleb I think TEXTURE is better than MATRIX. Permalink 1:50 AM – 20 Jul 2017

@nntaleb IF McCain’s glioblastoma responds to Keto or episodic fasting, THEN cause ~ steady feeding. Few protocols for data. http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/medicine.pdf   Permalink 1:48 AM – 20 Jul 2017

@nntaleb So @NickKristof doesn’t want us to stop funding Alqaeda head-cutters to spite the Russkis? You can’t be that stupid & not work for BSTimeshttps://twitter.com/ghassandahhan/status/887768177517764609   Permalink 4:47 PM – 19 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Minority rule. Agaib.https://twitter.com/memewarnow/status/887485100023328772   Permalink 4:37 PM – 19 Jul 2017

@nntaleb More harmful for free speech? Jihadis shooting Charlie Hebdo journos Salafinazis like @Lsarsour using SJW for cover to ostracize dissent Permalink 2:21 PM – 19 Jul 2017

@nntaleb More harmful for free speech? Jihadis shooting Charlie Hebdo journos Salafinazis like @Lsarsour using SJW for cover to ostracize dissent Permalink 2:21 PM – 19 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Anyway, that’s the first thing I was hoping Donaldo would do. And he did it. Thank you @realDonaldTrumphttps://twitter.com/MaxAbrahms/status/887752217448632320   Permalink 12:51 PM – 19 Jul 2017

@GuruAnaerobic We add some inverted arrows from perf, exercise, food… Coach -> athlete Program -> elite athlete Drills -> agility Hunger -> carbshttps://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/887724992397549570   Permalink 12:14 PM – 19 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Correction: handle for the Salafinazi is @lsarsour Permalink 12:13 PM – 19 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Quick explanation why Salafinazis s.a. @lindasarsour are more than dangerous to America. https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15   ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/Nq77eg2zLa”>  pic.twitter.com/Nq77eg2zLa Permalink 11:57 AM – 19 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Inverted arrows: Science -> technology Govt -> rights Education -> wealth Institutions -> peacehttps://twitter.com/catoletters/status/887674726872752129   Permalink 10:25 AM – 19 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Forgot to Add the Red Sea: Yemen, Hijaz/Ethiopia, Egypt Permalink 8:29 AM – 19 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Speculation from Genetics: If people eat the same they look the same, and they probably share water. Migrations have stopping time. pic.twitter.com/8ULJtqXQGO Permalink 8:14 AM – 19 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Skin in the Game A The Invisible Matrix of Daily Life B The Hidden Symmetry in Daily Life C Silent asymmetries in Daily Life Permalink 7:26 AM – 19 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Skin in the Game: Silent asymmetries in Daily Life Permalink 7:16 AM – 19 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Skin in the Game: The Invisible Symmetry in Daily Life Permalink 7:00 AM – 19 Jul 2017

@CHSommers Dear Women’s March, Ms. Assata Shakur executed New Jersey state trooper. You are extending birthday greetings to a cold-blooded murderess.https://twitter.com/womensmarch/status/886652647582859264   Permalink 6:35 PM – 18 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Playing with the most representative title Permalink 4:54 PM – 18 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Skin in the Game: The Invisible Matrix of Daily Life Permalink 4:50 PM – 18 Jul 2017

@CutTheKnotMath A refinement of an inequality in three variables http://www.cut-the-knot.org/m/Algebra/SimplifiedSitaru2Improvement.shtml   #FigureThat #math #algebra #inequality ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/vyagFJL2WW”>  pic.twitter.com/vyagFJL2WW Permalink 11:54 AM – 18 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Nocera, more pple will mistake Newark, N.J. for the Grand Canal of Venice than mistake you for an arbiter of anything related to intellecthttps://twitter.com/NoceraBV/status/887365805683486722   Permalink 10:50 AM – 18 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Not as much as my confidence that you are an idiot. Permalink 10:33 AM – 18 Jul 2017

@ArmandDAngour Makes excellent sense. A Greek and Syriac speaker from a place anciently known as Amia –> Ammianus. Permalink 10:01 AM – 18 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Things like Ayn Rand, D. Trump, Antifragile, Ergodicity, Probablty, SquidInk, IYI, Pseudo-rationality that either you get or will never get Permalink 8:38 AM – 18 Jul 2017

@nntaleb When you dig into them, most of what is called “rational argument” is highly disguized but extremely articulate BS. Permalink 8:10 AM – 18 Jul 2017

@nntaleb No. People realize that “intellectuals” are mostly stupid actors and see through them.https://twitter.com/dartek/status/887266876258222081   Permalink 4:53 AM – 18 Jul 2017

@turlevnon جدّي و ستّي بالسّرياني #learn_syriac #tur_levnon pic.twitter.com/5dLyYVZAPy Permalink 9:44 PM – 17 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Easy way to get rid of the Monsanto-hired trolls is to block all those harrassing @MaywaMontenegro, @dannyhakim @thackerpd & their friends.https://twitter.com/MaywaMontenegro/status/885698943744696322   Permalink 7:16 PM – 17 Jul 2017

@nntaleb A hall of shame.https://twitter.com/catoletters/status/887038901952499716   Permalink 1:12 PM – 17 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Where a problem leads to another problem pic.twitter.com/HAkLd3f0Zb Permalink 7:48 AM – 17 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Evidence that Monsanto has penetrated @Slate @geneticliteracy is a platform to smear critics of GMOs under cover of “science education”. Ha!https://twitter.com/dannyhakim/status/884778347993214976   Permalink 6:39 AM – 17 Jul 2017

@RonPaulInstitut Photos Of Aleppo Rising: Swimsuits, Concerts And Rebuilding In First Jihadi-Free Summer http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2017/july/17/photos-of-aleppo-rising-swimsuits-concerts-and-rebuilding-in-first-jihadi-free-summer/   ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/vm0sbY18l7″>  pic.twitter.com/vm0sbY18l7 Permalink 6:11 AM – 17 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Society is increasingly run by those who are better at explaining than understanding. Forced skin in the game filters these out. (Intro) Permalink 10:24 AM – 16 Jul 2017

@nntaleb The higher the PE the lower future variance…this is an illusion caused by reduced sample size for higher PE.https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/886618115399929856   Permalink 9:13 AM – 16 Jul 2017

@SPORTBETTINGMAN .@nntaleb is more like the howl from a distant alpha wolf. Other wolves understand, but no sheep can grasp the message. MSM is garbage. Permalink 7:58 AM – 16 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Where the press has a CONFLICT of interest with the public. (CHapter in SITG)https://medium.com/incerto/the-facts-are-true-the-news-is-fake-5bf98104cea2   Permalink 7:29 AM – 16 Jul 2017

@nntaleb BS vendors like Nocera in the self-serving attempt to hide that the press does NOT represent truth. BS vendors. https://medium.com/incerto/the-facts-are-true-the-news-is-fake-5bf98104cea2  https://twitter.com/NoceraBV/status/886443921303359489   Permalink 7:28 AM – 16 Jul 2017

@nntaleb The colors are so attractive hope @DrCirillo and I can do the same. pic.twitter.com/bvYnihd6X4 Permalink 5:37 AM – 16 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Dense pocket book w/a map of math in great detail. Great for travel & mathematical flaneuring. French trans. from German. No English equiv. pic.twitter.com/TFBwXDismd Permalink 5:26 AM – 16 Jul 2017

@normonics People are getting better at sniffing bullshit as they have the more opportunity to smell sweet truth.https://twitter.com/amusechimp/status/886380222521724933   Permalink 5:39 PM – 15 Jul 2017

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@nntaleb One of the “failures” sold a company for billions. There exists no business in which people can be as clueless as journos, yet survive. Permalink 1:47 PM – 15 Jul 2017

@CutTheKnotMath A tragedy. Could not just “like” ithttps://twitter.com/republicofmath/status/886261006007242752   Permalink 12:49 PM – 15 Jul 2017

@theenviousleft 97% of media professionals donated to Clinton. Learn about skin in the game and stop lying you obfuscating dunce. @nntaleb Permalink 10:18 AM – 15 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Bullshitters like you, indeed. Permalink 9:24 AM – 15 Jul 2017

@nntaleb This is Sophistry 101 by a BSTimes journo. Typical BSTimes. We are talking abt threat to the West, not threat to Russia. (fake use of SITG)https://twitter.com/GlennThrush/status/886251135144800257   Permalink 9:18 AM – 15 Jul 2017

@CutTheKnotMath Cyclic Inequality In Three Variables with Constraints http://www.cut-the-knot.org/m/Algebra/SimplifiedSitaru2.shtml   #FigureThat #math #algebra #inequality ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/gpaRsyYypU”>  pic.twitter.com/gpaRsyYypU Permalink 6:48 AM – 15 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 2) Cont Election Paper pic.twitter.com/TFVgDvBA3S Permalink 5:48 AM – 15 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 1) Submitted this version of the Election paper to a journal. pic.twitter.com/EGHkyIZe0F Permalink 5:47 AM – 15 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Three hours.https://twitter.com/StoolPoop/status/885986219405918208   Permalink 7:20 PM – 14 Jul 2017

@nntaleb BSTimes journo looks at failed AynRanders. He didn’t realize they WERE already successful. No cohort comparison.https://nyti.ms/2vgJeR5   Permalink 1:14 PM – 14 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Skin in the Game.https://twitter.com/catoletters/status/885948326163689472   Permalink 1:00 PM – 14 Jul 2017

@nntaleb So we now can quantify by how much books on “RISK” using “empiricism” like Fischhoff’s & oth. nonrisktaking academics are clueless. pic.twitter.com/A0Q4vNP9NY Permalink 11:32 AM – 14 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Finally found a closed-form for by how much we underestimate the true extreme using a “empirical distribution” (Reason: rainy Friday in NY.) pic.twitter.com/GxShlFKTuV Permalink 11:16 AM – 14 Jul 2017

@ebruenner just concluded v. long twitter debate w/ pro gmo. 100% arguments based on: -credentialism -unquestionable NECESSITY of novel foods Permalink 11:08 AM – 14 Jul 2017

@MastaKace Haplogroup J2 is generally associated with the Romans, it’s also found in high frequencies in area around Dardanelles & Constantinople (1) pic.twitter.com/uMo0iGUCSL Permalink 9:58 AM – 14 Jul 2017

@NonMeek .@nntaleb Another attempt at the Alan Blinder Problem with your helpful ideas hopefully I’m getting it right this time. #rentseeking pic.twitter.com/WhvHtCj71B Permalink 9:44 AM – 14 Jul 2017

@nntaleb There is NO EVIDENCE whatsoever abt safety of GMOs. Not ONE risk study. Nor does hiding stuff abt Glyphosate help much Keep trying Monsanto! pic.twitter.com/aVWv2rfqa9 Permalink 5:01 AM – 14 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Charlatan invoke such things as “potential to feed pple” in place of PROOF it won’t cause disaster for same pple. http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/PrecautionaryPrinciple.html  https://twitter.com/potatodoctor/status/885814957211832322   Permalink 4:52 AM – 14 Jul 2017

@fortierfinance NNT thread one of few places throughout my day I can reliably find justice being authentically served-world seems bit more sane as a result Permalink 11:59 AM – 13 Jul 2017

@nntaleb IYI Steil, don’t flatter yourself, I am not messing with you bec I am angry; I just take immense pleasure in busting BS vendors. Kapish? Permalink 11:55 AM – 13 Jul 2017

@nntaleb As I said, media commentators & former Gawker journalists seem have a contagious overpowering concern with… substance.https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/885567669273059328   Permalink 11:39 AM – 13 Jul 2017

@nntaleb By definition IYIs (Intellectuals Yet Idiots) provide responses that are independent of the question. Permalink 11:34 AM – 13 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Do you have a remark that’s not some asinine platitudinous reply lifted from “Response Manual for low IQ Thinkers for All Circumstances?” Permalink 11:31 AM – 13 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Petty, obsessive, substance-free criticism of Trump by petit-intellectuals (IYIs) has been fueling him, & destroying “intellectualism”.https://twitter.com/BennSteil/status/885562728282304512   Permalink 11:22 AM – 13 Jul 2017

@nntaleb NonFiction bestsellers are NOT correlated w/MSM: Books against bloated gov, Milo, Gingrich, etc. People vote with their wallet. MSM is dead.https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/885504822643834883   Permalink 9:34 AM – 13 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Proved that the so-called “Empirical Distribution” is not empirical, the “robust” is not robust. This is a scratchpad pic.twitter.com/TZBDsvEaKW Permalink 9:28 AM – 13 Jul 2017

@nntaleb The daily quizzes by maestro @CutTheKnotMath are like finding a parking spot in NYC: Never easy, never impossible.https://twitter.com/cuttheknotmath/status/884853542451892224   Permalink 7:18 AM – 13 Jul 2017

@GuruAnaerobic A fat-tailed process can masquerade as a thin-tailed one bt not the reverse @nntaleb If more experts knew this they wouldn’t talk so much BS Permalink 7:13 AM – 13 Jul 2017

@nntaleb It isn’t natural to know when your vacation/week end terminates. Modern life creates Sunday night blues. Flaneuring removes such a specter Permalink 4:31 AM – 13 Jul 2017

@eldivyn In every undertaking, the more humans try to be demi-gods, the more they become half-monsters.”- @nntaleb Permalink 1:46 PM – 12 Jul 2017

@nntaleb To paraphrase Feynman, math like s*x, is something you do for the fun, with potential side effects. Permalink 10:28 AM – 12 Jul 2017

@nntaleb But @TamarHaspel is a Monsanto shill! Permalink 9:58 AM – 12 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Applied math is math + skin in the game.https://twitter.com/johndcook/status/885164373743980545   Permalink 8:59 AM – 12 Jul 2017

@DanielLMcAdams More photos the MSM is desperate to hide…can’t let middle America know the truth about Syria…https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/884443152278532103   Permalink 7:10 AM – 12 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Free markets eventually lead to free speech. Censorship by social media not compatible w/ free enterprise! Markets => Ideas, not reverse.https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/885111752098070530   Permalink 5:23 AM – 12 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Anyone who listens to an economist has some incurable condition. As to economists…https://twitter.com/Michael_Heaver/status/885059554869997574   Permalink 5:01 AM – 12 Jul 2017

@nntaleb My enemies give me the reputation of a total as***le. The bonus is that people are always surprised when I am nice to them.https://twitter.com/wileecoyotewec/status/884881383776296960   Permalink 2:40 PM – 11 Jul 2017

@gfriend “Peace: Neither Ink nor Blood” by @nntaleb (and why the Arabs are fighting to the last Palestinian)https://medium.com/incerto/peace-neither-ink-nor-blood-4657956c82ac   Permalink 2:37 PM – 11 Jul 2017

@Theodore8 as close as I will ever get to @nntaleb #cuttlefish #ink #greece #kalokéri pic.twitter.com/lgqha7G3sm Permalink 11:53 AM – 11 Jul 2017

@garyruskin How the #GMO industry gets journalists to buy its messages, by @marionnestlehttp://bit.ly/2v8Pdrg   Permalink 9:17 AM – 11 Jul 2017

@nntaleb [Thread on Pyrrhic Victories] “If we win one more victory, we are doomed!” Si alteram talem victoriam reporta, vero mea erit pernicies Permalink 7:37 AM – 11 Jul 2017

@dannyhakim Key part of agrochem PR strategy is claiming that serious reporting on GMO’s/pesticides akin to being anti-vax or a climate change denier. Permalink 7:26 AM – 11 Jul 2017

@nntaleb The most serious error in statistics is taking properties out of a textbook and applying it mechanistically (a la Pinker boy). pic.twitter.com/bVuLOfwXRK Permalink 6:54 AM – 11 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Wondering why journos love GMOs? I am witness to a bit of this.http://progressive.org/magazine/how-the-biotech-industry-cultivates-positive-media/#.WWSwwM170Ds.twitter   Permalink 4:04 AM – 11 Jul 2017

@nntaleb What should I discuss? Permalink 1:31 PM – 10 Jul 2017

@nntaleb In about 9 minutes will start my econtalk with@EconTalker pic.twitter.com/nf7WdcviSJ Permalink 1:19 PM – 10 Jul 2017

@rpodgornik ..or possibly: Si Athenas et Spartam, quod aiunt, ne clamor ridentem. Permalink 10:05 AM – 10 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Heuristic: when picking a restaurant in an unfamiliar city, don’t look at the menu, look at the clients. Permalink 9:53 AM – 10 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Same as fake entrepreneurs only interested in packaging and selling companies: fake scholars only interested in credentials/local status. Permalink 9:27 AM – 10 Jul 2017

@nntaleb The vanquished cries, but the victor doesn’t laugh. Roman proverbhttps://twitter.com/johnrobb/status/884416954693505024   Permalink 7:26 AM – 10 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Wrong. Data shows that once settled, people tend to stay… like an occupied spot. “Invasions” overstated. Languages move faster than geneshttps://twitter.com/vrints_annemie/status/884399982073315328   Permalink 6:28 AM – 10 Jul 2017

@RealDHilburn Btw, this Chesterton quote reminds me of the Taleb test to detect ISIS sympathizers among refugees: pic.twitter.com/TPHWJ0BNKR Permalink 8:38 AM – 9 Jul 2017

@nntaleb A good database of ALL payments frm Qatar & oth Gulf sources to @Charles_Lister & employers for promoting Al-Qaeda? Same for @MiddleEastInsthttps://twitter.com/Desertlady11/status/883227758675058688   Permalink 7:42 AM – 9 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 4 hours lefthttps://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/883766265524965379   Permalink 7:31 AM – 9 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Getting to *prove* how tail risk estimation methods are flawed in the econ & behavioral econ literature. pic.twitter.com/XRiEzihhDW Permalink 5:22 AM – 9 Jul 2017

@mikeandallie We are having similar mornings. I just spent 2 hrs with Nassim Taleb’s latest paper pic.twitter.com/KoA1m4Vpl4 Permalink 4:57 AM – 9 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Strangely, @clarissaward from CNN posts nothing but fraudulous news/Jihadi propaganda that spreads & never retracts. Why it keep going? Permalink 12:14 PM – 8 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Visit to Kazakstan last mont. No tie, of course. Lost 6 lbs on a zero-carb (no squid ink) diet since. pic.twitter.com/irhCTMHMrf Permalink 11:24 AM – 8 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Exercise: Is uncertainty purely epistemic limitation? Think about it: destroys free will, requires teleology, unescapable preordained fatehttps://twitter.com/ProbFact/status/883743278008553472   Permalink 10:53 AM – 8 Jul 2017

@nntaleb And I am going to ask a “consultant” to tawk about Real Life? Permalink 10:14 AM – 8 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Typos pic.twitter.com/DwmFOhTebf Permalink 7:19 AM – 8 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Why” Nudge” and much of Behavioral Econ is bullshit science. pic.twitter.com/QFGQBUXnxN Permalink 7:10 AM – 8 Jul 2017

@nntaleb The reason Cyprus is at a stalemate: negociators are …bureaucrats. Clueless bureaucrats & political “scientists”. https://medium.com/incerto/peace-neither-ink-nor-blood-4657956c82ac  https://twitter.com/financecyprus/status/883670265586167812   Permalink 5:55 AM – 8 Jul 2017

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@nntaleb Starts around :55 Permalink 3:25 PM – 7 Jul 2017

@nntaleb I was wondering if someone knows the lyrics/name of this. I saw the performers in Granada. The singer is Paya.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aSOZ9YKARg&list=WL&index=7   Permalink 3:22 PM – 7 Jul 2017

@nntaleb #BF Block on Friday: every person who follows CNN. Permalink 12:31 PM – 7 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Modernity: we go much, much better at explaining than understanding. Permalink 12:08 PM – 7 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Buy real estate they call overpriced Read books called overrated Invest in markets called “irrational” Do things you enjoy but can’t explain Permalink 11:28 AM – 7 Jul 2017

@normonics accords with my priors: individualism enables voluntary collectives (which are superior to involuntary collectives).https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/883305042484248576   Permalink 10:47 AM – 7 Jul 2017

@CutTheKnotMath A Not Quite Cyclic Inequality http://www.cut-the-knot.org/arithmetic/algebra/NotQuiteCyclicInequality.shtml   #FigureThat #math #algebra #inequality ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/MLxgTxzno9″>  pic.twitter.com/MLxgTxzno9 Permalink 7:19 AM – 7 Jul 2017

@nntaleb (cont) you can have a large distributor. Large producers usually fail. Permalink 6:46 AM – 7 Jul 2017

@normonics my take with application to a Monsanto shillhttp://jwnorman.com/?page_id=237   Permalink 6:09 AM – 7 Jul 2017

@nntaleb “Economies of scale” are not compatible with reduced survival in SP500, or extinction of large animals. Large is fragile. See #Antifragile Permalink 5:59 AM – 7 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Actually, ad hominem is NOT a logical fallacy is case of “opinion”. MDs= credentials. Courts require credentials before opinion.https://twitter.com/charlesmurray/status/883304333848215552   Permalink 5:57 AM – 7 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Even the counterample, BOEING, is a coordinator of hundreds of small suppliers & 000s sub-suppliers. Permalink 4:43 AM – 7 Jul 2017

@nntaleb CNN never retracted the Aleppo stories that we now know are fake These BS vendors need a terminal lawsuit. storyhttp://nyp.st/2sklry1   Permalink 4:24 AM – 7 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Simply: Find A restaurant that has >200 tables and serves good food A large winery that makes drinkable wine Same w/farms Permalink 4:03 AM – 7 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Scale matters: small/medium is beautiful, more stable & genuinely more efficient long term. Large becomes top-down.https://twitter.com/foeeurope/status/883259295990730752   Permalink 3:33 AM – 7 Jul 2017

@pauld1981 FK-U muscles weight lifting allow you use in any conversation, see NNT discussion abt looking like a bodyguardhttps://twitter.com/EngageTheRebels/status/882617642556817409   Permalink 3:43 PM – 6 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Heuristics for an unhappy country https://www.facebook.com/nntaleb/posts/10155029966868375   ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/Qr0Pqu21AN”>  pic.twitter.com/Qr0Pqu21AN Permalink 2:55 PM – 6 Jul 2017

@nntaleb As we saw with the Gawker story, journalists fail to get the First Amendment. So with sub-intellects of CNN…https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/883031709771603968   Permalink 11:44 AM – 6 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Apologies, the con artist is @Charles_Lister, I tagged the wrong person. Permalink 9:06 AM – 6 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Why does @Ehsani22 a v. successful, smart man who knows Syria, keeps fighting with shoddy, low-IQ, AlQaeda/Qatar shills like @CharlesLister?https://twitter.com/EHSANI22/status/882984305617760258   Permalink 8:39 AM – 6 Jul 2017

@DrCirillo Why you should be careful when using the Gini index under fat tails. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.01370.pdf   Joint with @nntaleb and A. Fontanari. Permalink 2:17 AM – 6 Jul 2017

@nntaleb “All models are wrong, many are useful, some are deadly.” [SITG]https://twitter.com/DataSciFact/status/882664195652820992   Permalink 11:21 AM – 5 Jul 2017

@nntaleb A @CutTheKnotMath problem solved by cheating via computational mathematics. https://www.dropbox.com/s/yafwobxq7nkl32i/bogojuly5.tex?dl=0   ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/qJ7V9sPVvo”>  pic.twitter.com/qJ7V9sPVvo Permalink 9:57 AM – 5 Jul 2017

@wgryan I’d gladly give you the code, but watching @nntaleb bat people around like a cat with a rubber mouse is too fun. Permalink 9:30 PM – 4 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Free-markets: a mechanism by which the strong continuously & unrelentlessly preys on the strong.https://medium.com/incerto/inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d8f00bc0cb46   Permalink 8:40 AM – 4 Jul 2017

@nntaleb GINI paper with @DrCirillo pic.twitter.com/VdlxCjCCrT Permalink 8:05 AM – 4 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Here is who Henry I Miller is:https://usrtk.org/hall-of-shame/why-you-cant-trust-henry-miller-on-gmos/   Permalink 2:40 PM – 3 Jul 2017

@nntaleb “If powerful assholes don’t find you arrogant, you are doing something wrong.” (B. of Proc.) (Henry Miller is a shill for Monsanto & oth.) pic.twitter.com/GT4tEpJzUb Permalink 2:32 PM – 3 Jul 2017

@_aleferres @nntaleb antique roman concrete is a great example of antifragility and lindy effecthttp://www.nature.com/news/seawater-is-the-secret-to-long-lasting-roman-concrete-1.22231   Permalink 2:01 PM – 3 Jul 2017

@nntaleb techne vs epistemehttps://twitter.com/iMetaldog/status/881901916929773573   Permalink 8:53 AM – 3 Jul 2017

@nntaleb And there is conflation between eating “too much” meat and “too often” (i.e. lack of fasting). https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/RWRI%205/medicine.pdf   Permalink 8:22 AM – 3 Jul 2017

@nntaleb I block fools at the first such remark as “excuse to disenfranchise & persecute ppl”. Permalink 7:36 AM – 3 Jul 2017

@nntaleb So the problem could be nitrate, not meat. Kapish? Permalink 7:27 AM – 3 Jul 2017

@nntaleb If we’ve been eating animals for > 300 million years & some “study” says it’s “unhealthy”, odds study is wrong/misspecified. #LindyEffect Permalink 7:17 AM – 3 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Rather, We’re eating too much sugar and it’s making us sickhttps://twitter.com/careygillam/status/881863793571229697   Permalink 6:35 AM – 3 Jul 2017

@Protect_Wldlife What senseless waste. Why would you kill such a gentle creature? For ‘sport’?!? Please RT if you want a global ban on ALL trophy hunting. pic.twitter.com/kdFUNjentf Permalink 4:17 AM – 3 Jul 2017

@nntaleb A marker for a charlatan: someone who uses arguments type”this is the best model we have”. Skin in the game pple use ONLY reliable models. Permalink 5:34 PM – 2 Jul 2017

@nntaleb A marker for a charlatan: someone who uses arguments type”this is the best model we have”. Skin in the game pple use ONLY reliable models. Permalink 5:34 PM – 2 Jul 2017

@nntaleb All models are wrong. Some are lethal.https://twitter.com/2qaz1wsx/status/881620673596186624   Permalink 2:18 PM – 2 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Do you use the map of Tokyo in Rome? Or better nothing? Why is it that people don’t get that nothing beats BS. Permalink 2:04 PM – 2 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Gawker’s predatorial voyeurism (>20yo college girls) has NOTHING to do w/free-speech Tort laws protect citizens Journos are self-serving.https://twitter.com/nobodyspeakfilm/status/878231698470719489   Permalink 11:20 AM – 2 Jul 2017

@nntaleb To the freq. question, “which book to learn probability?” DO NOT start w/books. Do zillions of Monte Carlo, play & play until you get it. Permalink 7:48 AM – 2 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Where I explain why if some psychology results is not BS, your grandmother already knows about ithttps://medium.com/incerto/an-expert-called-lindy-fdb30f146eaf   Permalink 7:14 AM – 2 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Socialscience trying to look like science is like an aged man w/dyed hair & excessive facial surgery; ends up looking both v. old & v. fake. Permalink 7:08 AM – 2 Jul 2017

@nntaleb The core of the problem: 1) social scientists want to “learn statistics” w/o understanding probability. 2) social science is NOT science.https://twitter.com/yzilber/status/881404277612101632   Permalink 6:10 AM – 2 Jul 2017

@nntaleb A sign of development for a country is in the lack of prestige for government officials. Permalink 5:26 PM – 1 Jul 2017

@nntaleb The Roman army did not employ slaves (except during one Punic war). Only the free can fight. Permalink 1:52 PM – 1 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Marion Nestle @marionnestle needs to have Ukrainian hacker friends who block the low-IQ Monsanto trolls.http://www.alternet.org/food/my-blog-no-longer-accepts-comments-thanks-gmo-trolls#.WVgJPGlbW8E.twitter   Permalink 1:44 PM – 1 Jul 2017

@NonMeek .@nntaleb Found an old gem from rereading #FooledByRandomness. Great, great book indeed. pic.twitter.com/pUe8XiBaKM Permalink 9:55 AM – 1 Jul 2017

@nntaleb The problem with psychology & other BS sciences: they are highly convincing, but only temporarily so. Permalink 7:11 AM – 1 Jul 2017

@nntaleb I just published “Why Each One Should Eat His Own Turtles (Revised )”https://medium.com/p/why-each-one-should-eat-his-own-turtles-revised-8a4be2f11e61   Permalink 5:47 AM – 1 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 2) It is hard to define “fairness”, “justice” & other terms by SJW; never hard to define freedom. Libertarians put liberty over all else. Permalink 11:21 AM – 30 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Liberty prevails over other concerns s.a. “fairness”, “democracy”: It is analytically & legally much more robust.https://www.aspeninstitute.org/aspen-journal-of-ideas/eight-misconceptions-free-speech-campus/   Permalink 11:19 AM – 30 Jun 2017

@nntaleb BTW here is the main distinction between AntiFragility & Robustness https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/finaltalebdouady%20QUANTITATIVE%20FINANCE.pdf.pdf   Permalink 11:07 AM – 30 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Cans someone educate that idiot?https://twitter.com/NielsPflaeging/status/880805101518106625   Permalink 10:29 AM – 30 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Western Syria: mostly J2 haplogroup, w/some R1b from Neolithic settlements. Eastern Syria: mostly J1. Just a comment.https://twitter.com/BBassem7/status/880431308010213377   Permalink 8:13 AM – 30 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Solution, a bit of work. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/bogomolnyJune302017.tex   ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/toMUSQwF25″>  pic.twitter.com/toMUSQwF25 Permalink 4:47 AM – 30 Jun 2017

@gazmills14 @mrjamesob Mr @nntaleb has an excellent solution to ensure corners are not cut & risky practices are not hidden – apply skin in the game pic.twitter.com/V8Fwg8KHC0 Permalink 3:02 AM – 30 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Riemann Surfaces, sort of. Below is the Abr. & Stig. now used for 50 years! pic.twitter.com/vDJoDNrAv8 Permalink 2:55 AM – 30 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Not enough. As we saw with Gawker, they can increase ratings by predation over individuals. Permalink 12:19 PM – 29 Jun 2017

@nntaleb It’s a bad idea to NOT sue CNN, @Scaramucci. Unless CNN has skin in the game, they will continue harming citizens. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/340005-scaramucci-reports-on-threats-of-legal-action-against-cnn-overblown#.WVVRfmY5ALk.twitter   Permalink 12:15 PM – 29 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Usually, if I insult someone, it is that 1) I have written him off as a bullshitter (Pinker), 2) I find him dangerous somewhere… Permalink 11:53 AM – 29 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Regulation vs Legal Systems pic.twitter.com/6LH7wbdS30 Permalink 11:52 AM – 29 Jun 2017

@nntaleb You remember the insults you received far more than those you gave. Permalink 11:13 AM – 29 Jun 2017

@nntaleb MSM media is pro-AlQaeda.https://twitter.com/Souria4Syrians/status/880133359086776320   Permalink 8:02 AM – 29 Jun 2017

@nntaleb QUIZ duJour: Find 2 variables X and Y with 0 correlation, yet are 100% “dependent”,( if you know what a realization of X, you guess Y.) Permalink 6:14 AM – 29 Jun 2017

@nntaleb The map misses J2 in Italy (South, Estrusca) “una una faccia una razza”, Corsica, & Western Spain, & R1a in Anatolia/Levant. @fadyasly Permalink 6:00 AM – 29 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Simplifies everything.https://twitter.com/fadyasly/status/880399623843663879   Permalink 5:39 AM – 29 Jun 2017

@nntaleb If you were Greek in 1901, the place to be would have been Alexandria, Constantinople, Smyrna,.., perhaps Beirut. Not Athens. Nation States!https://twitter.com/CCavafy/status/880332402165501958   Permalink 1:19 AM – 29 Jun 2017

@EvaKerner .@CBinsights asking @nntaleb of #blackswans his take on cryptocurrencies: alternative currencies not signed by Larry Summers is paramount. pic.twitter.com/8UsGfDniG9 Permalink 2:18 PM – 28 Jun 2017

@hazelmulhare ‘we are not made for comfort’ Wow. @nntaleb unbelievably excellent talk on ‘anti fragile’ at #futurefintech pic.twitter.com/iT54IdfyQY Permalink 2:14 PM – 28 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Gettinghttps://twitter.com/lcdavis1225/status/880150871241367552   Permalink 1:03 PM – 28 Jun 2017

@investingidiocy To recap: Rule #1: We don’t talk about Fight Club Rule #2: …. or The Wolf of Wall Street And Rule #3: We don’t troll @nntaleb Permalink 2:08 AM – 28 Jun 2017

@vxschmid @nntaleb says this is when the ketchup blasts out of the bottle #igwt17 @RonStoeferle pic.twitter.com/mp0NJUgVFj Permalink 8:25 AM – 27 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Self assessment. Like economics. pic.twitter.com/WD1W9WKVpf Permalink 7:40 AM – 27 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Is fragile what wants minimum variation around the average. Definition.https://twitter.com/jaipresto/status/879603544986353665   Permalink 3:05 AM – 27 Jun 2017

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@nntaleb Centrally, justice is about starting with the crime, then finding culprits, rather than starting with the person then finding the crime.https://twitter.com/AlanDersh/status/879394382285332480   Permalink 10:56 AM – 26 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Mathematical scratchnotes for Skin in the Game. pic.twitter.com/Qi8PiJMLMo Permalink 9:17 AM – 26 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Economists… talking abt charlatans who “sell a service that they do not deliver on”.https://twitter.com/NessimAitKacimi/status/879348478157230081   Permalink 7:57 AM – 26 Jun 2017

@nntaleb The plot thickens: the Northern Levant spoke … sanscrit! @PZallouahttps://twitter.com/ShoaibDaniyal/status/879239364567474176   Permalink 6:53 AM – 26 Jun 2017

@mikeandallie A terrific example to show calculus students from @CutTheKnotMath and @nntaleb : https://mikesmathpage.wordpress.com/2017/06/25/a-terrific-example-for-calculus-students-from-nassim-taleb-and-alexander-bogomolny/   #math #mathchat Permalink 5:03 AM – 25 Jun 2017

@vinayak Excellent word choice! “Only The Rich Are Poisoned: The Preference of Others” — @nntaleb https://medium.com/incerto/only-the-rich-are-poisoned-the-preference-of-others-c35ddf65cf68#—260-557   ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/b8T48djA9Y”>  pic.twitter.com/b8T48djA9Y Permalink 1:40 AM – 25 Jun 2017

@nntaleb The only compliments I really take seriously as those by such erudites as @ArmandDAngour . Or Fat Tony. Permalink 6:54 AM – 24 Jun 2017

@nntaleb The only answer I have to your comment is that you an imbecile. Permalink 6:33 AM – 24 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Being tolerant with the intolerant is an act of intolerance.https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15   Permalink 6:27 AM – 24 Jun 2017

@nntaleb The enemy of market system isn’t some pot-smoking hirsute communistic hippie, but a suit wearing banker or Federal Reserve employee. Permalink 3:50 AM – 24 Jun 2017

@nntaleb The only argument to not jail bankers is that they would manage to scam other inmates.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/23/jailing-barclays-bankers-financial-crash?CMP=share_btn_tw   Permalink 2:52 AM – 24 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Nice to see one’s sentences “rediscovered” episodically.https://twitter.com/EddyElfenbein/status/878518675187302400   Permalink 1:02 AM – 24 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Islamized Armenians, Greeks & Syrians have been stuck with a “Turkish” or “Arab” identity. http://www.repairfuture.net/index.php/en/identity-standpoint-of-turkey/the-turkish-identity-imposed-by-the-nation-state-is-being-questioned   via @Repairfuture Permalink 12:59 AM – 24 Jun 2017

@nntaleb No praise is valid unless its author is as prone to praising as to laying blame. Permalink 2:13 PM – 23 Jun 2017

@CutTheKnotMath Find a limit of sequence http://www.cut-the-knot.org/m/Algebra/RootedLimit.shtml   #FigureThat #math #algebra #calculus #limit ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/3vjVR07hrQ”>  pic.twitter.com/3vjVR07hrQ Permalink 2:58 PM – 22 Jun 2017

@skorusARK . @nntaleb makes a solid case for general purpose technology platforms #blockchain #autonomouscars #EnergyStorage all have lots of use cases pic.twitter.com/63huPkxts2 Permalink 7:34 AM – 22 Jun 2017

@GuruAnaerobic From ‘ANAEROBICS’ – 2018 Calories, Chronicity and sub-lethal starvation – a rationale. Independent of “current research”. (h/t @nntaleb) pic.twitter.com/Nw3MU6nYuc Permalink 4:23 AM – 22 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Snapshots of recent work on how to asses SP500 tail probabilities. pic.twitter.com/jooVBA7LLt Permalink 3:03 AM – 22 Jun 2017

@nntaleb The mathematics of why absence of correlation != 0 correlationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6CxfBMUf1o   Permalink 11:40 PM – 21 Jun 2017

@nntaleb The opposite of reading is not not reading, but reading something like the @NewYorker. Permalink 5:35 AM – 21 Jun 2017

@CutTheKnotMath What is the probability that a random nxn matrix from Z(2) is degenerate? (Moscow State U. math olympiad, 1976) Permalink 10:05 PM – 20 Jun 2017

@nntaleb “Merime”, impure, comes from “muharram” (<-haram), which makes their hidden religion even more confusing to track. Permalink 3:29 PM – 20 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Is it me or something is wrong with this painting by Yevgraf Sorokin, 1853, of Spanish gitanos. Romas are supposed to avoid dogs (impure). pic.twitter.com/ZPrVFT8brg Permalink 3:26 PM – 20 Jun 2017

@nntaleb J. Ceasar’s thinking: Accumulate details, plan silently, then move fast ag. your enemy Chronic engagement is just training him #Antifragile Permalink 2:55 PM – 20 Jun 2017

@nntaleb If you are famous, rich, or prominent, avoid people whose friends are all famous, rich, or prominent. Permalink 2:09 PM – 20 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Yet almost all of what’s in theses mounds of “nonfiction” books is BS. However, much of what’s in fiction is pure truth.https://twitter.com/historylvrsclub/status/877257258098360321   Permalink 1:19 PM – 20 Jun 2017

@nntaleb This is the pin story & coordination in Algazel. The reason I refrnced Graeber is that he mentions it as well. https://www.facebook.com/13012333374/posts/10150327251133375   Permalink 12:27 PM – 20 Jun 2017

@nntaleb In general, if an “Arab” discovery was made by a Persian (or a Babylonian), one should try to look further East. Permalink 12:45 AM – 20 Jun 2017

@nntaleb As an example of spontaneous coordination without a central planner. Permalink 12:32 AM – 20 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Example of the pin made by various of pple unaware of one another, used by A.Smith, originally in Algazel Could have originated further East Permalink 12:28 AM – 20 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Where is @davidgraeber when you need him? Permalink 12:21 AM – 20 Jun 2017

@nntaleb When ignorant pple dabble in history… Idea of division of labor/invisible hand (A.Smith’s pin) was by a Persian, Algazel,~300 y before IK.https://twitter.com/davidjshipley/status/876890647982166022   Permalink 12:19 AM – 20 Jun 2017

@nntaleb And Templeton’s Money will be used, not to research, but to finance Henry I. Miller & others smearing @garyruskin & scientists like Seralinihttps://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/876937088771530755   Permalink 11:56 PM – 19 Jun 2017

@nntaleb You die, leave money for charity, as John Templeton did.Later, an IYI schmuck who runs the foundation gives YOUR money to GMO propagandistshttps://twitter.com/garyruskin/status/876935203805057024   Permalink 3:57 PM – 19 Jun 2017

@nntaleb From memory 1st who introduces the technology isn’t safe; often goes bust. Remember Visicalc or Lotus123?, Osborne portable PC? AltaVista?https://twitter.com/tim/status/876566999530315776   Permalink 3:12 PM – 19 Jun 2017

@CutTheKnotMath A write-up for the last week’s probability problem http://www.cut-the-knot.org/m/Probability/ARMLC_2016_7.shtml   with thanks to @barryvanhoff @gcfr20 @nntaleb @mikeandallie ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/Tel0ykarZ9″>  pic.twitter.com/Tel0ykarZ9 Permalink 5:09 AM – 19 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Kazakhstan is a country of DOERS; very refreshing to see. Astana has in no time mushroomed out of the Eurasian steppe. Runs like Singapore! Permalink 4:30 PM – 17 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Probability du Jour. Maestro @CutTheKnotMath proposed a great probability problem (conventional convolutions fail because of dependence) pic.twitter.com/Y0A7QNN2fj Permalink 9:20 AM – 17 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Interesting the same people who report (& get) this don’t get that genetic modification jump complexity classes.https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/its-like-all-connected-man/530532/?utm_source=twb   Permalink 12:50 AM – 17 Jun 2017

@Ishtiaque_IH Nicholas Taleb @Forum_Astana: Trial and error is better than knowledge because it helps us adapt more effectively in an uncertain world. pic.twitter.com/PxGsuXlACw Permalink 10:24 PM – 16 Jun 2017

@garyruskin Did #Monsanto ghostwrite articles for @henryimiller in defense of #glyphosate? http://bit.ly/2nOacg3   http://bit.ly/2d5KErI   ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/rWdJUeuvo2″>  pic.twitter.com/rWdJUeuvo2 Permalink 1:47 PM – 16 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Dinner: Carpaccio of horse meat, & horse fat. The Steppe fighters kept a ketogenic diet which allowed them to fast for days w/o fatigue. Permalink 4:53 PM – 14 Jun 2017

@nntaleb Fermented mare milk, Genghis Khan’s champagne! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumis   ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/ru3x2208ZI”>  pic.twitter.com/ru3x2208ZI Permalink 7:22 AM – 14 Jun 2017

@non_observable “Virtue is what you do when nobody is looking. The rest is marketing.” -@nntaleb #WednesdayWisdom Permalink 2:52 AM – 14 Jun 2017

@LorenzoWVilla When a distribution realizes that @nntaleb is looking at her, she immediately becomes a power law.https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/874784165266284545   Permalink 5:55 PM – 13 Jun 2017