Published video “Alexander Taleb: Why Do Planes Crash?”.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American New York University professor, essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty.
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Born 12 September 1960 · Q333521
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It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.
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2025· 6 entries
Published video “Stephen Wolfram visits RWRI 20 (The Real World Risk Summer School, 2025)”.
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Published video “Discussion with Pierre Zalloua on 'Ancestors'”.
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Published video “MINI LECTURE 19 - Conditional Probability & A Fallacy in Cardiology Concerning LDL”.
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Published video “Does the Ketogenic Diet Work for Brain Cancer? Finding Signal in a Small Sample.”.
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Published video “The IQ debate, a conclusion”.
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2024· 4 entries
Published video “Universa's Bernoulli for Portfolio Simulation: Correcting the Empirical Distribution”.
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Published video “Scott Patterson's Chaos Kings, Part 4”.
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Published video “Scott Patterson's Chaos Kings, Part 3”.
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Published video “Scott Patterson's Chaos Kings, Part 2”.
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2018· 2 entries
The Guardian: Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – digested read
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The Guardian: Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb review – how risk should be shared
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: Nassim Nicholas Taleb hits out at Chinese printers’ censorship of his book
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2013· 1 entry
The Guardian: Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Oglivy's Rory Sutherland on risk - Cannes Lions 2013 video
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2012· 3 entries
The Guardian: Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review
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The Guardian: Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – digested read
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The Guardian: Nassim Taleb: my rules for life
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2010· 3 entries
The Guardian: Digested read: The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The Guardian: My bright idea: Nassim Taleb
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The Guardian: Hay Festival video: On the power of cab drivers | Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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2009· 3 entries
The Guardian: This week: Nassim Taleb, Shanti Andrews, Rebecca Turner and Stefan Gatward
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Taleb had harsh words for bankers, suggesting that bankers' recklessness will not be repeated "if you have punishment"
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That he was "happy" that Lehman Brothers collapsed—was followed by reports of threats and personal attacks
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2007· 3 entries
Selling close to three million copies, as of February 2011
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Westfall and Hilbe complained that Taleb's criticism is "often unfounded and sometimes outrageous
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Taleb joined his former Empirica partner, Mark Spitznagel, as an adviser to Universa Investments, an asset management company based on the "black swan" idea, owned and managed by Spitznagel in Miami, Florida
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2001· 1 entry
Was selected by Fortune as one of the smartest 75 books known
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2000· 3 entries
At the end of the dot com bubble and burst, Empirica's Empirica Kurtosis LLC fund was reported to have made a 56
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“It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.”
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“Będą ci zazdrościć twojego sukcesu, twojego bogactwa, twojej inteligencji, twojego wyglądu, twojego statusu, ale sporadycznie twojej mądrości.”
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1960· 1 entry
Born 1960-09-12.
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