Luck is when random events meet convexity (antifragility), bad luck when they meet concavity (fragility).

via Nassim NicholنTaleb on Twitter: “Luck is when random events meet convexity (antifragility), bad luck when they meet concavity (fragility).”.

Those in the Mideast interested in peace (not slogans) should read this study by Bar Yam on cantonization: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0095660

via Nassim NicholنTaleb on Twitter: “Those in the Mideast interested in peace not slogans should read this study by Bar Yam on cantonization: http://t.co/5e1h49o1tz”.

This is so ABSURD I can’t believe it anymore. How Qatar is funding the rise of Islamist extremists | via @Telegraph http://fw.to/EUXH64X

via Nassim N. Taleb ن on Twitter: “This is so ABSURD I can’t believe it anymore. How Qatar is funding the rise of Islamist extremists | via @Telegraph http://t.co/iWg8M8bdPB”.

@nntalebWe Christians of the Levant Egypt and Mesopotamia are being ethnically cleansed w funding from headgear states & they want me to be “polite”

via Nassim N. Taleb ن on Twitter: “We Christians of the Levant Egypt and Mesopotamia are being ethnically cleansed w funding from headgear states & they want me to be “polite””.

I am now co-editor of an academic journal Risk and Decision Analysis, seeking non-BS mathematical papers on risk:
http://www.iospress.nl/journal/risk-and-decision-analysis/