{"id":8338,"date":"2016-03-23T20:37:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T03:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=8338"},"modified":"2016-03-23T20:37:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T03:37:25","slug":"belgium-p-values-nocera-saudi-pr-dark-act-monsanto-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/belgium-p-values-nocera-saudi-pr-dark-act-monsanto-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium, P-Values, Nocera, Saudi PR, DARK Act, Monsanto | Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>@nntaleb The Saudi origins of Belgium&#8217;s Islamist threat <a href=\"http:\/\/wpo.st\/NMlO1 \" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wpo.st\/NMlO1 <\/a>&nbsp;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/712790864385458179\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 4:59 PM &#8211; 23 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb There is a video see feed  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8qrfSh07rT0 \" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8qrfSh07rT0 <\/a>&nbsp; @NathanBiddle  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/712636959701790721\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 6:47 AM &#8211; 23 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Two works in my mailbox:  One Formulation of size and fragility <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2741198&#038;download=yes \" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2741198&#038;download=yes <\/a>&nbsp; One Book on Antifragility <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-319-30070-2 \" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-319-30070-2 <\/a>&nbsp;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/712628295712514050\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 6:13 AM &#8211; 23 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Here is the video on the metadistribution of p-values <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8qrfSh07rT0 \" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/8qrfSh07rT0 <\/a>&nbsp; and the text is here: <a href=\"http:\/\/fooledbyrandomness.com\/pvalues.pdf \" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/fooledbyrandomness.com\/pvalues.pdf <\/a>&nbsp;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/712472739714568193\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 7:55 PM &#8211; 22 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@davidmoore411 He&#8217;s one of few people on the internet who could insult you publicly and you&#8217;d still buy his next book. His stuff is that good. @nntaleb  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/davidmoore411\/status\/712445878380990464\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 6:08 PM &#8211; 22 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb OK, OK, full proof of an exact  metadistribution of p-values (covers all hypotheses). Shd I do a video comment? <a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/YLuY3UTY1v\">pic.twitter.com\/YLuY3UTY1v<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/712403879401541633\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 3:21 PM &#8211; 22 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Syrian Christians behave as Muslims in the East, Christians in the West, &#038; are viewed as Muslims in the West and Christians in the East.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/712254120556666880\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 5:26 AM &#8211; 22 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Walid Phares is a Christian Lebanese @dandrezner  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/712246124267114497\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 4:54 AM &#8211; 22 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb What is slowing me down w #SkinintheGame is Isocrates&#8217; Silver Rule for Nations: Treat other nations the way you want them to treat you.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/712042822547939328\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 3:26 PM &#8211; 21 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Q: Should we intervene more to &#8220;help&#8221; countries as we brilliantly did in Lybia, Iraq, Syria, Vietnam, Iran (1953)? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simon_schama\/status\/712014036993499137 \" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/simon_schama\/status\/712014036993499137 <\/a>&nbsp;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/712030465943797760\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 2:37 PM &#8211; 21 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb &#8220;Funding&#8221; &#038; &#8220;Investments&#8221; are the last thing you need. All you need: authenticity &#038; risk. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nntaleb\/posts\/10153701042473375 \" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nntaleb\/posts\/10153701042473375 <\/a>&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/lMyA1wTQ56\">pic.twitter.com\/lMyA1wTQ56<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/712029532245647360\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 2:34 PM &#8211; 21 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@cdipaola62 @nntaleb @NoceraNYT Definition of Irony- A writer named &#8220;Nocera&#8221; finds discussion of Primum non Nocere, unintelligible  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/cdipaola62\/status\/712017766929321984\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 1:47 PM &#8211; 21 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Actually, from his name John of Damascus was not Syrian\/Aramaic, but likely to be an Arab (*Yahya* Ibn Sarjun, not Yuhanan) @iandavidmorris  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/712015635841159168\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 1:38 PM &#8211; 21 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb 9 days is nothing. There is the 2005 pre-crisis discussion of my skepticism of models that will eventually be re-opened.  @NoceraNYT  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/711968094751727617\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 10:29 AM &#8211; 21 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb It is called &#8220;first do no harm&#8221;, avoid &#8220;policies with side effects&#8221; (primum non nocere) translated:  &#8220;no nocere, Nocera&#8221; @robert_cookson  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/711962987347779586\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 10:09 AM &#8211; 21 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb If you have trouble understanding this, you really have problems. @robert_cookson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-03-12\/nassim-taleb-sums-americas-election-17-black-swan-words \" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-03-12\/nassim-taleb-sums-americas-election-17-black-swan-words <\/a>&nbsp;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/711959833721880576\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 9:57 AM &#8211; 21 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb A journo who says &#8220;unintelligible&#8221;  reveals more about his intellect than the intelligibility of the subject matter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noceranyt\/status\/708650770380546049 \" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/noceranyt\/status\/708650770380546049 <\/a>&nbsp;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/711954560177274880\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 9:36 AM &#8211; 21 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Thanks to Scott Robeson, this is the expected pseudo-significant results <5% for true p-value  @indianaclimate <a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/sZ1863QyzA\">pic.twitter.com\/sZ1863QyzA<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/711569300595871744\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 8:05 AM &#8211; 20 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Friends, the metadistribution of p-values: rewrote, looking for mistakes bef publ on ArXiv.  <a href=\"http:\/\/fooledbyrandomness.com\/pvalues.pdf \" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/fooledbyrandomness.com\/pvalues.pdf <\/a>&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/hn25LnI37C\">pic.twitter.com\/hn25LnI37C<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/711539862717988864\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 6:08 AM &#8211; 20 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb For all his defects, more pple would like to become Trump (yacht\/American dream) rather than some reasonable-sounding hack criticizing him.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/711312753173127169\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 3:05 PM &#8211; 19 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb The more efficient you try to be at a given task, the more you will hate it.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/710599577578119174\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 3:51 PM &#8211; 17 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@lhfang New Saudi PR effort SAPRAC led by guy who recently helped regime smear Nimr al-Nimr, gov critic they executed. <a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/9IbCNKDxFz\">pic.twitter.com\/9IbCNKDxFz<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/lhfang\/status\/710573533286551552\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 2:08 PM &#8211; 17 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb A 3% significance is really 16% @pehr_bjornbom @antitrustly @ReneMaric <a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/ZcQdCggnmf\">pic.twitter.com\/ZcQdCggnmf<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/710549231061307393\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 12:31 PM &#8211; 17 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Real-world rigor (Feynman-like): bring mathematics to deeply understood problems, don&#8217;t take deeply understood mathematics to problems.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/710541213506654208\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 12:00 PM &#8211; 17 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb To get a real p-val of 5% you need 1.1%; 5% is ~ 26% <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/50282823\/p-val.pdf \" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/50282823\/p-val.pdf <\/a>&nbsp; @antitrustly @ReneMaric @BrianNosek <a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/EHXHV4xVvZ\">pic.twitter.com\/EHXHV4xVvZ<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/710534507884109825\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 11:33 AM &#8211; 17 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@yaneerbaryam Military strategy in a complex world &#8212; how antifragility undermines traditional military strategies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.necsi.edu\/research\/military\/strategy.html \" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.necsi.edu\/research\/military\/strategy.html <\/a>&nbsp; @nntaleb  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/yaneerbaryam\/status\/710513143387185152\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 10:08 AM &#8211; 17 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Why didn&#8217;t anyone pull out the &#8220;p-value&#8221; of the &#8220;p-value&#8221; before?  @ReneMaric @BrianNosek  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/710447225424506880\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 5:46 AM &#8211; 17 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Only solution: it you &#8220;really&#8221; want a p-value of .05, require .0125! @BrianNosek @ReneMaric  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/710444428079599617\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 5:35 AM &#8211; 17 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb I mean p-values are random variables that do not necessarily reflect statistical significance. I can&#8217;t find in lit. @ReneMaric @BrianNosek  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/710442271108366337\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 5:26 AM &#8211; 17 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Why aren&#8217;t psychologists (@BrianNosek) aware that p-values have HUGE sampling error?  #replicationcrisis <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/50282823\/p-val.pdf \" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/50282823\/p-val.pdf <\/a>&nbsp;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/710440544170860548\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 5:19 AM &#8211; 17 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb typos <a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/z9BQiLlsQp\">pic.twitter.com\/z9BQiLlsQp<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/710279857276657665\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 6:41 PM &#8211; 16 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb On plane proof  p-values are extremely random\/volatile &#038; explicit variance as function of n. <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/50282823\/p-val.pdf \" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/50282823\/p-val.pdf <\/a>&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/IYIN215S3a\">pic.twitter.com\/IYIN215S3a<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/710278093408235520\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 6:34 PM &#8211; 16 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Evidence based? That is ignorant BS. Anti-GMO is scientific scrutiny. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NinjaEconomics\/status\/710263345153093632 \" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/NinjaEconomics\/status\/710263345153093632 <\/a>&nbsp;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/710271597366607872\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 6:08 PM &#8211; 16 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Experiment: Farro w\/ squid ink. <a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/Qzzkxud18w\">pic.twitter.com\/Qzzkxud18w<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/710259067357364224\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 5:18 PM &#8211; 16 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb People are so concerned about my age. <a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/JHXlNBinkr\">pic.twitter.com\/JHXlNBinkr<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/710238509735538695\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 3:57 PM &#8211; 16 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Victory!  Senate Rejects the DARK Act <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2016\/03\/16\/senate-rejects-dark-act-gmo-labeling\/ \" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2016\/03\/16\/senate-rejects-dark-act-gmo-labeling\/ <\/a>&nbsp; via ecowatch  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/710214016304594944\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 2:19 PM &#8211; 16 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb This is the kind of BS people clueless about tail risk utter. Farmers&#8217; modifications belong to a narrow basin. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neiltyson\/status\/710093894847959040 \" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/neiltyson\/status\/710093894847959040 <\/a>&nbsp;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/710205306828165120\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 1:45 PM &#8211; 16 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Heuristic: when in a hotel for the very first time, reject the first room they give you.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/710085499847712768\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 5:49 AM &#8211; 16 Mar 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Monsanto forces farmers to bear all the liability for its seeds, making itself immune to adverse consequences. <a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/khRh3Sff1J\">pic.twitter.com\/khRh3Sff1J<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/709662457237786624\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 1:48 AM &#8211; 15 Mar 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@nntaleb The Saudi origins of Belgium&#8217;s Islamist threat http:\/\/wpo.st\/NMlO1 &nbsp; Permalink 4:59 PM &#8211; 23 Mar 2016 @nntaleb There is a video see feed https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8qrfSh07rT0 &nbsp; @NathanBiddle Permalink 6:47 AM &#8211; 23 Mar 2016 @nntaleb Two works in my mailbox: One Formulation of size and fragility http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2741198&#038;download=yes &nbsp; One Book on Antifragility http:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-319-30070-2 &nbsp; Permalink [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1232,1035,823,1233,1226,1234],"class_list":["post-8338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twitter","tag-belgium","tag-dark-act","tag-monsanto","tag-nocera","tag-p-values","tag-saudi-pr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338","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=8338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8341,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions\/8341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}