Nassim Nicholas Taleb∗, Pierre Zalloua, and Dan Platt ∗Corresponding author, [email protected] Dec 2019
We discuss the inadequacy of covariances/correlations and other measures in L-2 as relative distance metrics. We propose a computationally simple heuristic to transform a map based on standard principal component analysis (PCA) (when the variables are asymptotically Gaussian) into an entropy-based map where distances are based on mutual information.
The history of Universa Investments featuring Nassim Taleb and Mark Spitznagel discussing tail hedging, their 20+ years of working together, and the importance of risk mitigation in investing.
Nassim Taleb, Universa Investment’s scientific advisor and distinguished professor of risk engineering at NYU, warned of an acute virus spreading throughout the planet in his 2007 book “The Black Swan.” In January, he also warned of the systemic risks of the coronavirus pandemic. He joins “Squawk Box” to discuss.
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Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb interviewed about his book Skin in the Game by author and journalist Katrine Marçal. Taleb explains the concepts of Skin in the Game and Soul in the Game. He also talks about rationality and honour. Taleb is not a fan of economists Paul Krugman, Richard Thaler and behavioural economics. In this interview, he explains why.
In this fantastic lecture at the end of August 2019 at the WorldSkills Conference in Kazan, Russia, he addressed some very interesting points:
✅ The importance of trial and error for the development of technology. ✅ Theory does not allow interaction with uncertainty. ✅ Theoretical knowledge is inferior to the knowledge gained from experience. ✅ We get smarter when we perform, not just when we sit and think. ✅ People who use trial-and-error are more successful than those who just dedicate themselves to designing, writing formulas, and reasoning in theory. ✅ Businesses that make small, cheap mistakes can end up making a mistake that will make them big. ✅ People involved in technology do not write books. The books are written by teachers. But the real heroes didn’t come from the academic world, they didn’t have time to discuss what they were doing. ✅ Do not try to teach birds to fly. The world does not develop from top to bottom. ✅ Industrial Revolution and Cybernetics did not come from academia and science but from people without formal study. ✅ Formal education does not generate wealth for countries. ✅ First, they must get rich and only then invest in this type of education (If you care about Brazil!) ✅ South Korea and Switzerland first became rich with the technical skills of their people and later invested in formal education.
