Monthly Archives: March 2011

BBC – BBC World Service Programmes – The Forum, 12/03/2011

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Audio from the BBC. Intelligence Symposium in Portmeirion, with Oceanographer Sylvia Earle and painter, poet Frieda Hughes. HatTip to Dave Lull.

Lebanese- American Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of ‘The Black Swan’. His latest book ‘The Bed of Procrustes’ ‘ addresses the ways in which humans “squeeze life and the world into crisp commoditized ideas”. He discusses the tension between rationalism and empiricism and argues that too much knowledge can be a burden.
mp3 is available for download for another 25 days.

JUMPS DO NOT ALWAYS NEED ENERGY.

JUMPS DO NOT ALWAYS NEED ENERGY.
For antifragile matters in the nonphysical (i.e., socio-economic) domain, Thom’s Catastrophe Theory does not make a difference. What matters is convexity or concavity, period.
This graph gives the intuition behind my need to separate my idea of antifragility from conventional physics. Social science is a complete different animal.

Technical Proof of Leverage leading to Fat Tails

Technical Proof of Leverage leading to Fat Tails (uninteresting to those who do not need convincing)- Note 141

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/notebook.htm


Opacity
www.fooledbyrandomness.com
(A philosophical notebook. I only put stuff here from my work in progresss. Once again, I beg you to avoid sending me the list of typos. Not quite my book… but close. And I am not so much anti-Platonic: I am mostly against “Platonicity” which is being a sucker for a Platonic form, at the cost