A discussion with Pierre Zalloua about his book Ancestors on the Genetic & Cultural History of the Levant. It is the first scientific history of the area, which debunks many historical accounts.
Tag: YouTube
[YouTube] The Base Rate Fallacy in Cardiology with respect to LDL
People with normal Lp(a) have much lower risk factors. We tend to overmedicate them. The normal levels of LDL should be revised upwards for them.
[YouTube] Does the Ketogenic Diet Work for Brain Cancer? Finding Signal in a Small Sample
Does the Ketogenic Diet Work for Brain Cancer? Doctors find it hard to do a trial, so many make you believe that it does not work rather than simply claiming “it is just untested” (conflating the absence of evidence for evidence of absence).
[YouTube] Fragility, Robustness, and Antifragility
Public talk by Nassim Nicholas Taleb at the Jassim Al-Qatami Engineering Lecture Hall on December 9, 2024, exploring fragility, robustness, and antifragility with insights on Lebanon and Palestine.
Bloomberg: Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Fragility of Markets, Political Risk, AI
Nassim Taleb, Black Swan author and Universa Investments distinguished scientific advisor, talks about the fragility of markets, how to hedge against geopolitical risks and artificial intelligence. He’s on “Bloomberg Markets.”
[YouTube] NASSIM TALEB ON: The Art Of Dentistry
NASSIM TALEB ON: The Art Of Dentistry. Video in Arabic.
[YouTube] Universa’s Bernoulli for Portfolio Simulation: Correcting the Empirical Distribution
The empirical distribution is not empirical, full of Turkey problems. “Real tails” do not show in past samples because of their property under fat tails. Empirical distributions are, by design, interpolating; we fix by extrapolating and extending the tails. Note the dispute: In French, Bernoulli is pronounced “Ber-noo-yi” not “Ber-noo-li”, much like consigliere is pronounced “consiyyere”.
[YouTube] A Discussion With Scott Patterson’s About His Book Chaos Kings, Part 4
Topics Covered:
- Geoengineering
- Mao’s Four Pest Problem
- Brexit
- How antagonism between bad politicians can turn into good government
- The “LongTermism” nonsense of SBF
- The Final Chapter
[YouTube] Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Bitcoin is Not a Hedge Against Market Sell-Offs
Nassim Taleb, Universa Investments distinguished scientific advisor and ‘The Black Swan’ author, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss the latest market trends, what to make of the market sell-off, the Fed’s inflation fight, interest rate outlook, bitcoin’s volatility, and more.
[YouTube] A Discussion With Scott Patterson’s About His Book Chaos Kings, Part 2
+The Turkey Problem
+ Meeting Mandelbrot & discovering a wealth of processes generating grey swans
+ Meeting Kahneman
+ The 3-day meeting with the Harvard geneticist George Church, involving Elon Musk, Anne Wojcicki, Larry Page, Richard Thaler, & others that triggered the non-naive version of the precautionary principle.