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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.
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 ...
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").
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.
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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 60 books on Goodreads with 926720 ratings. Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s most popular book is The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highl...
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).
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
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.
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.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb