Great work!
I can confirm.
I spent ~7 hours watching the 8 episodes.
Remember that what will work in the future must not make a lot of sense now. A lot of what makes sense (in naive first order logic) has already been tried --and failed. @rorysutherland
- Article
- By Michael Edesess
- Mar 1, 2021
- Risk
- Finance
- Ergodicity
Beautiful thread. Entropy it is.
- Book
- By Joy A. Thomas, Thomas M. Cover
- Aug 12, 1991
- Information Theory
- Book
- By Michel Loeve
- May 15, 1978
- Probability
- Book
- By Laurens de Haan, Ana Ferreira
- Feb 15, 2005
- Extreme Value Theory
- Probability
- Book
- By Joseph L. Doob
- 1953
- Probability
- Book
- By Vladimir V. Uchaikin, Vladimir Mikhailovich Zolotarev
- Jan 1, 1999
- Probability
- Statistics
- Book
- By Patrick Billingsley
- Jan 1, 1979
- Probability
‘A breakthrough book. Wonderfully applicable to everything in life, and funny as hell.’ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Book
- By Rory Sutherland
- 2019
- Psychology
Bitcoin has no owner, no authority that can decide on its fate. It is owned by the crowd, its users. And it now has a track record of several years, enough for it to be an animal in its own right. Its mere existence is an insurance policy that will remind governments that the last object the establishment could control, namely, the currency, is no longer their monopoly. This gives us, the crowd, an insurance policy against an Orwellian future.
- Book
- By Saifedean Ammous
- Apr 24, 2018
- Bitcoin
- Money
This is a landmark book in social thought, in the same league as The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud.
When a risk taker writes a book, read it. In the case of Peter Thiel, read it twice. Or, to be safe, three times. This is a classic.
- Book
- By Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
- Oct 7, 2014
- Startup
- Business
Bertaud knows cities inside out. It is a pleasure to read something by a person who knows his subject in so much depth. He reveals how planning can mess up cities, how the market is more intelligent than planners, etc.
Aside from the potent Hayekian argument, Bertaud gave me some intuition for future real estate investments: a city is a labor market since people change jobs and companies add and subtract employees. Any form of planning needs to accommodate such a fact. And if cities are principally labor markets, they should both concentrate and differentiate along with globalization.
- Book
- By Alain Bertaud
- Dec 4, 2018
- Cities
I will write a longer review, but this is a monument, not just a book. And the beginning of a new cultural program.
On a scale of 0 to 100, paternity tests count as 99.99 and written/oral history should count for .01. Apply that to populations. That’s plain statistics/probability. We are seeing science in action: information theory displaces BS, the handwaving just so stories we got from historians.
(A longer review to come).
- Book
- By David Reich
- Mar 27, 2018
- Humankind
- Genetics
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960) is a Lebanese-American (of Antiochian Greek descent) essayist, scholar, statistician, and former option trader and risk analyst, whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. His 2007 book The Black Swan has been described by The Sunday Times as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II. Taleb is the author of the Incerto, a five volume philosophical essay on uncertainty published between 2001 and 2018 (of which the most known books are The Black Swan and Antifragile). He has been a professor at several universities, serving as a Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering since September 2008. He has been co-editor-in-chief of the academic journal Risk and Decision Analysis since September 2014. He has also been a practitioner of mathematical finance, a hedge fund manager, and a derivatives trader, and is currently listed as a scientific adviser at Universa Investments.