Nassim Nicholas Taleb (/ˈtɑːləb/; alternatively Nessim or Nissim; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician,...
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Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a 2007 book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is a former options trader. The book focuses on the extreme...
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Antifragile (book) (category Books by Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb published on November 27, 2012, by Random House in the United States and...
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Black swan theory (category Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
unforeseen and consequential event. The theory was developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, starting in 2001, to explain: The disproportionate role of high-profile...
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Skin in the Game (book) (category Books by Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
nonfiction book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a former options trader with a background in the mathematics of probability and statistics. Taleb's thesis is that...
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Fooled by Randomness (category Books by Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb that deals with the fallibility of human knowledge. It was first...
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subsequently been theorized by mathematicians and statisticians. Nassim Nicholas Taleb has expressed the Lindy effect in terms of "distance from an absorbing...
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The concept it describes has been compared to the Japanese tsundoku. The term antilibrary was coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in...
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The Bed of Procrustes (category Books by Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms is a philosophy book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb written in the aphoristic style. It was first released on November...
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Ludic fallacy (category Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
fallacy, proposed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book The Black Swan (2007), is "the misuse of games to model real-life situations". Taleb explains the fallacy...
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commented on a similar state in 1921. In his 2007 book The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb coined the term "antilibrary", which has been compared with tsundoku...
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Taleb may refer to: Loay Taleb (born 1975), Syrian footballer Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960), Lebanese-American writer and statistician Nordine Taleb...
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Antifragility (category Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
failures. The concept was developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book, Antifragile, and in technical papers. As Taleb explains in his book, antifragility...
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The concept is named after Nassim Nicholas Taleb, based on ideas outlined in his book Fooled by Randomness. According to Taleb in Silent Risk, the term...
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was a hedge fund founded in 1999 by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in partnership with Mark Spitznagel, that used Taleb's black swan strategy. The firm closed...
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picking – Fallacy of incomplete evidence Fooled by Randomness – Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Inspiration porn – Ableist portrayal of disabled people Lindy effect –...
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like noses: everyone has one. Let's stop complaining." In 2013, Nassim Nicholas Taleb published a piece on his website in which he accused Dobelli of...
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prominent public figure, and an advocate of the arts in Lebanon Nassim Nicholas Taleb – essayist and scholar whose work focuses on problems of randomness...
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humanizing the workplace, cultural awareness, and strategy making." Nassim Nicholas Taleb considers risk managers little more than "blind users" of statistical...
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Younger[citation needed] George Bernard Shaw Mikhail Turovsky Lev Shestov Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Bed of Procrustes) Lao Tze Voltaire Wasif Ali Wasif Oscar Wilde...
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frequency of large deviations in this respect. In The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb gives the example of risk models according to which the Black Monday...
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arguing Fama's efficient market hypothesis is seriously flawed. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a retired Wall Street options trader, spoke highly of Shiller's...
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John Gray (philosopher) (redirect from John Nicholas Gray)
Soros, the environmental scientist James Lovelock and the author Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Friedrich Hayek described Gray's 1984 book Hayek on Liberty as...
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or Anti-fragile may refer to: Antifragile (book), a 2012 book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Antifragile (EP), 2022 extended play record by Le Sserafim "Antifragile"...
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Kahneman's opinions concerning overconfidence are influenced by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. In this section Kahneman returns to economics and expands his seminal...
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Investments was founded in January 2007 by Mark Spitznagel with Nassim Nicholas Taleb acting as its advisor. The two of them previously ran Empirica Capital...
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case " 'multistrategy' seems to have been a misnomer at the fund." Nassim Nicholas Taleb proposed the company's use of "twelve risk managers" was meaningless...
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Aphorisms is a 2010 book by philosopher and probability theorist Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan and Antifragile. Giving continuation to...
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distribution occurring in financial models has also been criticized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his works. Measurement errors in physical experiments are often...
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of complete information, and some others. W. Edwards Deming and Nassim Nicholas Taleb argue that empirical reality, not nice mathematical properties,...
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