{"id":6652,"date":"2014-03-03T21:44:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T05:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6652"},"modified":"2014-03-03T21:44:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T05:44:47","slug":"salt-las-vegas-may-13-16-2014-bellagio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/salt-las-vegas-may-13-16-2014-bellagio\/","title":{"rendered":"SALT LAS VEGAS  MAY 13 &#8211; 16, 2014   |  BELLAGIO"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Nassim Taleb<\/p>\n<p>New York Times Bestselling Author, &#8220;The Black Swan&#8221; &amp; Distinguished Scientific Advisor, Universa Investments<\/p>\n<p>Nassim N. Taleb is a former derivatives trader who became a philosophical essayist, and researcher in probability in 2006. Although he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University, he self-funds his research and operates in the manner of independent scholars. He is also Distinguished Scientific Advisor at Universa Investments L.P., an investment manager that specializes in tail hedging as a means to enhance long-term equity returns.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Taleb is the author of The Incerto: A Philosophical Essay on Uncertainty, in Four Volumes, which includes The Black Swan (2007) and Antifragile (2012). He is also author of a series of mathematical monographs on Probability and Risk in the Real World. His work focuses on decision-making under opacity and how systems can handle errors and disorder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saltconference.com\/register.html\" target=\"_blank\">Registration<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saltconference.com\/speakers\/taleb_nassim.html\">Nassim Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nassim Taleb New York Times Bestselling Author, &#8220;The Black Swan&#8221; &amp; Distinguished Scientific Advisor, Universa Investments Nassim N. Taleb is a former derivatives trader who became a philosophical essayist, and researcher in probability in 2006. Although he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University, he self-funds his research and operates in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6654,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions\/6654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}