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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 analy...

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.

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Clarkson's Farm (TV Series 2021– )
Clarkson's Farm (TV Series 2021– )
Clarkson's Farm: With Jeremy Clarkson, Kaleb Cooper, Charlie Ireland, Gerald Cooper. Follow Jeremy Clarkson as he attempts to run a farm in the countryside.
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Not all self-labeled "libertarians" are sociopaths, misanthropes, or self-centered narcissists; not all sociopaths, misanthropes, & self-centered narcissists are libertarians.
But the intersection is high! Good thread.
[Princ Pol: How to purge libertarianism from these psychos] https://t.co/MKu3CXta4Y
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1/ One of most important things I've learned:Severe personality problems find *camouflage.* No one thinks "I'm a sadist" or "I'm a malignan...
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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.
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Understanding Fat Tail Returns
Understanding Fat Tail Returns
Much statistical analysis in finance depends on the assumption that variables have normal distributions. This assumption is far from correct. As a result, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb has rightly pointed out, most statistical results in finance are wrong. Now, a disciple of Taleb has tried to extend Tal
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Beautiful thread.
Entropy it is. https://t.co/0HMPlagqK9
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@engexplain @nntaleb 1/10Science is assumed to be “evidence-based” but that term alone doesn’t mean much. What constitutes good evidence? Ho...
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Elements of Information Theory
Elements of Information Theory
The latest edition of this classic is updated with new problem sets and material<br /><br /><br /> The Second Edition of this fundamental textbook maintains the book's tradition of clear, thought-provoking instruction. Readers are provided once again with an instructive mix of mathematics, physics,
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Probability Theory II
Probability Theory II
This book is intended as a text for graduate students and as a reference for workers in probability and statistics. The prerequisite is honest calculus. The material covered in Parts Two to Five inclusive requires about three to four semesters of graduate study. The introductory part may serve as a
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Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus
Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus
A graduate-course text, written for readers familiar with measure-theoretic probability and discrete-time processes, wishing to explore stochastic processes in continuous time. The vehicle chosen for this exposition is Brownian motion, which is presented as the canonical example of both a martingale
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Limit distributions for sums of independent random variables
Limit distributions for sums of independent random variables
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Extreme Value Theory: An Introduction
Extreme Value Theory: An Introduction
This treatment of extreme value theory is unique in book literature in that it focuses on some beautiful theoretical results along with applications. All the main topics covering the heart of the subject are introduced to the reader in a systematic fashion so that in the final chapter even the most
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Stochastic Processes
Stochastic Processes
The theory of stochastic processes has developed so much in the last twenty years that the need for a systematic account of the subject has been felt, particularly by students and instructors of probability. This book fills that need. While even elementary definitions and theorems are stated in deta
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Chance And Stability, Stable Distributions And Their Applications (Modern Probability And Statistics)
Chance And Stability, Stable Distributions And Their Applications (Modern Probability And Statistics)
The series is devoted to the publication of high-level monographs and surveys which cover the whole spectrum of probability and statistics. The books of the series are addressed to both experts and advanced students.
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Probability and Measure
Probability and Measure
Now in its new third edition, Probability and Measure offers advanced students, scientists, and engineers an integrated introduction to measure theory and probability. Retaining the unique approach of the previous editions, this text interweaves material on probability and measure, so that probabili
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‘A breakthrough book. Wonderfully applicable to everything in life, and funny as hell.’ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
‘A breakthrough book. Wonderfully applicable to everything in life, and funny as hell.’ Nassim Nicholas Taleb To be brilliant, you have to be irrational Why is Red Bull so popular – even though everyone hates the taste? Why do countdown boards on platforms take away the pain of train delays? And w
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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.
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The Bitcoin Standard
The Bitcoin Standard
Bitcoin is the newest technology for money—find out how it fits in the future. Bitcoin is the digital age's novel, decentralized, and automated solution to the problem of money: accessible worldwide, controlled by nobody. Can this young upstart money challenge the global monetary order? Economist S
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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.
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Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
<b>An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure.</b><br /><br />Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the gro
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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).
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
<b>A groundbreaking book about how technological advances in genomics and the extraction of ancient DNA have profoundly changed our understanding of human prehistory while resolving many long-standing controversies.</b><br /><br />Massive technological innovations now allow scientists to extract and
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Very comprehensive, sufficiently technical to get most of the plumbing behind machine learning. Very useful as a reference book (actually, there is no other complete reference book).
The authors are the real thing (Tibshirani is the one behind the LASSO regularization technique).
Uses some mathematical statistics without the burdens of measure theory and avoids the obvious but complicated proofs.
I own two copies of this edition, one for the office, one for my house, and the authors generously provide the PDF for travelers like me.
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The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction
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The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction
During the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information technology. With it has come vast amounts of data in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing. The challenge of understanding these data has led to the development of new tools in the field
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Very clear exposition, does the math without getting lost in the details. Although many of the concepts of the introductory first 100 pages can be found elsewhere, they are presented with remarkable cut-to-the-chase clarity.
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Deep Learning
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Deep Learning
<b>An introduction to a broad range of topics in deep learning, covering mathematical and conceptual background, deep learning techniques used in industry, and research perspectives.</b><br /><br />Deep learning is a form of machine learning that enables computers to learn from experience and unders
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