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| | Black Swans and Turkey Problems Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash The concept of the Black Swan was popularized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book by the same name. Over many introductions of this concept to friends and colleagues, I observed that it is an easy concept to describe but a difficult one...
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| | Bayes theorem lets you turn probabilities around. For example, going from distribution of names given birth year to distribution of birth year for each name.
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| | Quotation of the Day: "My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: 'I don't know...." - Nassim Nocholas Taleb Links of the Day: Chapter 4 - 9 of Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Really...
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| In his highly distinctive 'tone of voice', Maarten van Rossem provides the most succinct available lecture on the root causes which lead to the 2008 financial crisis. From the change in Keynes thinking (after the 1920s) to the Hayek and Friedman ideology - embodied by the neoliberal policies of Reagan and Thatcher. Van Rossem explains [...]