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Donaldo, Dawkins, Golf, Ken Wilson, E.O. Wilson, ghee, tikka

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Where at a reception, I am caught “running after the man with the tulsi aur kali mirch ka paneer tikka”. #ETGBS
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/50779354.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
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2:44 PM – 29 Jan 2016

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Worth investigating; extremely worhty of investigation. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-29/zika-outbreak-epicenter-same-area-genetically-modified-mosquitoes-released-2015
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2:39 PM – 29 Jan 2016

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Delhi #ETGBS. Best tasting bread with ghee, unexplainably good. Indian made wine.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/slideshows/corporate-industry/et-global-business-summit-2016/nassim-nicholas-taleb-with-vineet-jain/slideshow/50777989.cms
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2:24 PM – 29 Jan 2016

nntaleb
Does someone known the name of the biologist who orchestrated the smear campaign against E.O. Wilson?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-richard-dawkins-is-no-scientist-the-survival-of-the-least-selfish-and-what-ants-can-tell-us-9849956.html
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1:12 PM – 29 Jan 2016

nntaleb
Ken Wilson wrote a great SciAm article (1979) on the renormalization group and the failure of averaging http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/problems-in-physics-with-many-scale/
/yaneerbaryam/status/693067253881769984
5:44 AM – 29 Jan 2016

nntaleb
God invented a time-consuming activity known as Golf so people who don’t read book don’t read bad books. https://twitter.com/zerg_rush01/status/693092172011311104
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12:24 PM – 29 Jan 2016

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#ETGBS Mckinsey’s bigboss: corps have shorter life in SP500. My interpretation: counters theories of inequality. pic.twitter.com/C1S4WoWiBs
/nntaleb/status/693066773038370816
5:42 AM – 29 Jan 2016

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.@RichardDawkins knows this 10 yrs (I spoke w him). He should acknowledge error, EO Wilson changed sides. @IGUZM4N @nntaleb @GeorgeShiber
/yaneerbaryam/status/692875333435981824
5:02 PM – 28 Jan 2016

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6e) This is why you need a different function for fattaileddist for positive/negative x, glued together. @normonics pic.twitter.com/S0D6Z2m6A6
/nntaleb/status/692877114555572224
5:09 PM – 28 Jan 2016

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6c) Patched function is when you use f(x) = something for x<0, somethingelse for x >=0, or \times Sgn[x] etc. @normonics
/nntaleb/status/692873965421748224
4:56 PM – 28 Jan 2016

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Mathematicians believe argument is closed: Dawkins as journo has journo friends as shown by article by @mattwridley. Journos lag. @dpodbori
/nntaleb/status/692872266879610881
4:49 PM – 28 Jan 2016

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Donaldo, winning debates & winning the election are, as Fat Tony wd say “two different tings”. Kapish? #antifragile https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/692864417101287425
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4:26 PM – 28 Jan 2016