A general presentation of my research. In which I debunk some BS in social science (which includes our discussion on violence).
The Law of Large Numbers and Fat Tailed Distributions
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Monthly Archives: May 2015
I don’t watch soccer games…
I don’t watch soccer games; it will be more thrilling instead to watch how FIFA, a vast criminal organization, will be brought to its knees.
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PS- Sepp Blatter is far easier to get than Gotti. Why? First, no omerta. These people are amateurs with nothing bonding them. Second, the internet. Times have changed.
Source: Facebook
NNT’s Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Conférence Inaugurale
De Pygmalion à Frankenstein
(modélisation des risques financiers : pertinence et résilience)
La conférence-débat inaugurale réunira Nassim Nicholas Taleb, distinguished professor à la New York University (notamment auteur du Cygne noir), et Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, médaille d’argent du CNRS, président-fondateur et directeur de la recherche de Capital Fund Management.
Elle se tiendra le 8 juin à 18h (accueil à 17h30), au centre de conférences Pierre Mendes France (Ministère des Finances).
Participation gratuite – inscription obligatoire :
contact@chaire-pari.fr
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A day for
Tomorrow
June 10th 2015 at the Helsinki Music Centre
A formalization of the barbell strategy
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/602476618108436482
A formalization of the barbell strategy: “Tail risk constraint and maximum entropy” (Final Version) http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/barbell.pdf
On the tail risk of violent conflict and its underestimation
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/602097174441132032
Answering questions about http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04722 : Peak-over-Threshold is to Block Maxima what Lebesgue integral is to RiemannOn the tail risk of violent conflict and its underestimation