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  1. Nassim Nicholas Taleb [a] (/ ˈ t ɑː l ə b /; alternatively Nessim or Nissim; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist.

  2. Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Home Page. About: author of the INCERTO a philosophical and practical essay on uncertainty (Skin In the Game, Antifragile , The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and The Bed of Procrustes), a (so far) 5-volume "investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk,and decision making when we ...

  3. Taleb is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering (only a quarter time position). His current focus is on the properties of systems that can handle disorder ("antifragile").

  4. Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent more than 20 years as a derivatives trader specializing in: hedging nonlinear risks, managing payoffs under complicated probability distributions, before starting a full-time career in research in the field of risk management and applied probability.

  5. Nassim Taleb is the original, idiosyncratic mind behind Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and Antifragile, a bestselling series of books on the nature of complexity, randomness, and a world where rare events dominate the landscape.

  6. Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 60 books on Goodreads with 926720 ratings. Nassim Nicholas Talebs most popular book is The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highl...

  7. Mar 30, 2021 · Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) March 29, 2021. Most of the tension resides between 1) Embedded, complexity-minded, multiscale/fractal localism (politics as an ecology/complex adaptive system), and 2) Abstract one-dimensional universalists and monoculturalism (politics as a top-down engineering project).

  8. Sep 27, 2024 · Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) August 26, 2024 2/ The Kullbacl-Leibner divergence is simply the relative distance between indiv* A and indiv B using the traits of B as baseline. *Or population pic.twitter.com/s4STaTYwFn

  9. 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 Penguin in the United Kingdom.

  10. May 11, 2010 · The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand.

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