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Flaneur: focus on probability (philosophy), probability (mathematics), probability (logic),probability (reallife), deadlifts, Phoenician wine, dead languages.

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  1. 17 minutes ago

    And ignore statements about “math geniuses with High IQ”. 1- how many high IQ can do math? 2- Ramanujan, Groethendieck, Mandelbrot were horrrrrrrible at standardized tests... has a mystical link to math...

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  2. 43 minutes ago

    Reread and you will find it.

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  3. 1 hour ago

    A metric that ONLY detects "below average" will show 80% correlation with performance. (corrected typos)

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  4. 1 hour ago

    PROBABILITY DU JOUR A clearer presentation showing how a metric for disease can falsely masquerade as a metric for performance because "correlation" is not appropriate (and should NEVER be used) under nonlinearity. Something the Quillettebeciles don't get.

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    11 Jun 2018

    Taxi driver to Malta’s airport: Where are you flying to? Me: Palermo. Driver: vacation? Me: No. Meeting. Silence the rest of the journey.

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    18 hours ago

    acts like it has a lot to hide. It had a 20-page plan on how to "minimize impact of" and "minimize media coverage and publicity of" 's book Whitewash, about Monsanto, and .

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  7. 18 hours ago

    Meanwhile I’ve blocked trolls on both sides.

    At one time the Left thought Nassim Taleb was on their side. And at one time the Right thought he was on their side. Never did they realize that he has always been Outside.
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  8. 19 hours ago

    Charles Murray is considered a Galileo of the racisticists, someone who provides scientific truths. He is just an intellectual fraud. These mistakes are on a SINGLE page in his book.

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  9. 21 hours ago

    Andrew Gelman is the #1 BS buster in social science.

    Check out Gelmans "take down" of nudge boy Sunstein.
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    Aug 15

    “You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.” Nassim Taleb

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  11. 23 hours ago

    Review on Amazon. If you are going to be a BS vendor, make sure to not combine it with "race realism" and eugenics.

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    Aug 15
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    You are wasting time arguing about universal computation/Touring machines with the Quilletebeciles neonazis who interpretet as a blank slate argument. The Quilettebeciles don't even get that you may bolster their argument since in practice there is a yuuge diff betw processors!

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    Aug 15

    Dormition of the Theotokos

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    Aug 15

    Aspirations of this account: - To extol the spiritual power of Orthodoxy & our ability to create Byz 2.0 Tendencies: - Venice bashing - HRE bashing - mocking idiots - foodpoasting

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  15. Aug 15

    Ignore journos: they can't property scale moves, put them in perspective. The SP500 is still up >12% on the year. : Have to reveal I've been short HLF for more than a year. Fear of missing an opportunity, just in case Ackman turns out to be ultimately right.

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    Aug 14

    "The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds" -

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    Aug 14
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    You misunderstand and underestimate Taleb if you think this is any kind of outlierish or burdensome "axe to grind", or even particularly personal. Taleb's bread and butter- or rather olive oil- is lopping down logs of bullshit, and the axe is sharp for all comers.

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  18. Aug 14

    Very safe: I stopped in 2010 having dinners with social scientists.

    How would you react if you had dinner with someone who referred to you as a f**king social scientist, they tried watching one of your videos but got bored and turned it off, and if they had a chair title like yours they wouldn't put it on a business card?
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  19. Aug 14

    2) You can be fooled by people, and you can be fooled by fields. For instance I was fooled by behavioral economics...

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  20. Aug 14

    Why universality trumps IQ by

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