Monthly Archives: August 2015

Folta, GMOs, Khaled Asaad, City State, Regression,

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Before the Folta Affair, was debatable. Today it’s the public’s only protection. Why it’s OK to ‘snoop’ on scientists http://t.co/BgrTU3iNa1

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 21, 2015
The New Engl Jour of Medicine is truuuuuuuuuly independent. Great antiBS article: GMOs, Herbicides, and Public Health http://t.co/UhxESMWSE6

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 20, 2015
RIP, Khaled Asaad, man of honor. Beheaded by ISIS. Skin in the game to the end. http://t.co/wNklL7REQR

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 19, 2015
Mike Bloomberg uses our framework on fragility, governance, and advantage of municipal-based systems vs centralized https://t.co/gz2jUTMkzO

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 19, 2015
Regression Shmegression: How regression fails under Fat Tails. pic.twitter.com/S2FaUQolsQ

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 19, 2015
Think slowly, act quickly. [The only Latin proverb that translates better than original. “Deliberandum est quidquid statuendum est semel”.]

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 17, 2015
Gamble; but never gamble with the wrong dice.

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 14, 2015

The Importance of Having Skin in the Game | The Art of Manliness

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To the skin-withholders above, Taleb adds news editors who choose clicks over credibility, managers who assume minimal accountability, and paper-pushing bureaucrats of all kinds. These societal elites and cosseted desk-jockeys invert the ancient order of honor; they attain status and influence without risk, and substitute cheap talk for action. They accept the upside of their position, without being exposed to its downside — and in fact outsource that downside onto unsuspecting others. Pundits give opinions and predictions that are trusted by the general population, but suffer no consequences if they turn out to be wrong — even if actual harm befalls those who took their faulty advice. They demand a pound of flesh from others, while protecting their own skin.

Source: The Importance of Having Skin in the Game | The Art of Manliness

BLOOMBERG QUANT SEMINAR SERIES

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WHEN & WHERE
August 27, 2015
5:00pm

Bloomberg L.P.
7MPR
731 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY
10022

6:15pm Lightning Talks
A lightning talk is a very short presentation lasting only 5 minutes. Several ones will be delivered in a single session by different speakers in quick succession.
Emanuel Derman A scientific foundation for both CAPM and options valuation
Dhruv Madeka Malliavin Calculus made simple
Aditi Dandapani Modeling how information changes can cause financial bubbles
Edward Weinberger Probabilistic Accounting
Mohamed Ndaoud Constructing the Fractional Brownian Motion
Nassim Taleb Dimensionality and model error: a copula approach

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People rarely mean the same thing when they say “religion”…

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People rarely mean the same thing when they say “religion”, nor do they realize that they don’t mean the same thing.

For early Jews and Muslims, religion was law. For early Jews it was also tribal; for early Muslims it was universal. For the Romans religion was social events and festivals (law was separate ). For Jews today religion became ethnocultural, without the law –and for some, a nation. Same for Syriacs, Copts, and Maronites. For Orthodox and Catholic Christians religion is aesthetics, pomp and rituals. For Protestants religion is belief with no aesthetics, pomp or law. For Buddists/Shintoists/Hindus religion is philosophy. So when Hindu talk about the Hindu “religion” they don’t mean the same thing to a Pakistani as it would to a Hindu, and certainly something different for a Persian.

People keep talking past each other. When the nation-state idea came about, things got more complicated. When an Arab now says “Jew” he largely means belief; a converted Jew is no longer a Jew. But for a Jew it means a nation.

In Serbia/Croatia, or Lebanon, religion means something at times of peace, and something quite different at times of war.

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Researcher finds himself center of battle over GMOs and corporate support | InsideHigherEd

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In case you’re wondering what all the hoopla is about.

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/630459740930359296

The Nature article is based on thousands of pages of Folta’s emails, which were recently obtained by the anti-GMO group U.S. Right to Know via an open records request. Although Folta vehemently denies having “close ties” to Monsanto, he readily admits to another detail in the article: that in 2014 he accepted an unrestricted $25,000 grant from the company to further his active outreach agenda on scientific communication.Folta said that he visits colleges, universities and even elementary schools to talk a

Source: Researcher finds himself center of battle over GMOs and corporate support | InsideHigherEd
See Also: The Fight Over Transparency: Round Two