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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I've been getting rid of my BTC. Why? A currency is never supposed to be more volatile than what you buy & sell with it.You can't price goods in BTCIn
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A mathematical mind works in reverse: a matrix is a special case of a tensor, a vector a special case of a matrix.In probability, those NonRussians who start from special
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SOCIAL MEDIA & TRUMP1/ Remember that social media got Trump elected. Twitter decided to not be a vehicle for violent insurrection against elected government.There is no possible evidence that can
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101 BS THINGS TAUGHT TO STUDENTS, 1That correlation is a measure of relationship betw 2 variables. It is very rarely so.Few understand how correlation requires 1) no subsampling, 2) strict
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Something unpopular:The bulk of the "losses" in #Lebanese #lollar deposits is just interest not made at all (& interst on interst).Many, many are actually ahead or breaking even.#Yieldhogs were making
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EDUCATION.Distilling the conversation with @bryan_caplan hosted by @tylercowen 1) There has been a traditional separation between: + "liberal education" for free men, (liber), who didn't work for a living,
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DISCUSSION:I am in favor of masks & intransigent w/Twitter unrigorous babble; but one must ethically try to have a fresh look when facing a new study. Let's do an objective
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Are you kidding me?????Borat is nearly the most racist movie in history, overtly degrading the pple of #Kazakhstan. Yet many get "cancelled" for misusing a certain words out of context.So
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It is remarkable that you have idiots like this "Prof" @BallouxFrancois who conflate additive risks with multiplicative ones (fat tailed), a mistake your grandmother wouldn't make.https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/129
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FRAUD!!!!!If there is a reason to shut down the WHO, here it is.Cass Sunstein is the poster child of pseudo-empiricism. He failed to get pandemics early on and missed on
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The NYT suggests cancelling Aristotle. This is retrospective bigotteering; it implies moral values DO NOT evolve.People need to be judged with respect to the morals OF THEIR OWN TIME.(But we
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