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This is exactly the phrase that crosses my mind when reading the critics of Taleb’s Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world, mostly from ‘distinguished’ financial ‘experts’. But the dog can bite in this case! I can feel their wrath, often mere desperation and basically, a persistent lack of objective argumentation against Taleb’s postulated theory of inherently unpredictable [...]
The Role and Nature of High Impact Events (Black Swans): Technical Commentary and Empirical Data - Written by N. N. Taleb This is an appendix to the Edge piece. It is striking how some simple, simple tests (of stability of the 4th moment and failures of stress testing) can invalidate tens of thousand of research papers [...]
Since Tim Geithner did not predict the economic crisis, Nassim Taleb has no interest in listening to him talk about it now. The author of The Black Swan, a book about risk and … [Read More...]
A leaked internal memo from physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva reports a … [Read More...]
The more one probes the universe at smaller and smaller scales, the weirder matter and energy seem … [Read More...]
Can you recall a moment when you could honestly say 'I told you so', but when no one listens? Well … [Read More...]
