Lucky Bastards
To offer a counterpoint to Talebs notion of luck being the arbiter of all success a piece called what Lucky People do Different
Taleb
A bit of a chat with Nassim Taleb – the author of Fooled by Randomness and Black Swans. I have never really been one of Talebs fans since Fooled by Randomness seemed to be a long series of self justifications as to why he couldn’t trade. The central undercurrent of the book seemed to be…
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A bit of a chat with Nassim Taleb – the author of Fooled by Randomness and Black Swans. I have never really been one of Talebs fans since Fooled by Randomness seemed to be a long series of self justifications as to why he couldn’t trade. The central undercurrent of the book seemed to be…
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To offer a counterpoint to Talebs notion of luck being the arbiter of all success a piece called what Lucky People do Different
That Equation Made Me Do It
I have written before about how those with the moral of a pox ridden alley cat had tried to blame the Black and Scholes equation for the GFC This very clever little graphic puts that notion to bed. Source – Quant
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The Yanks do some things well – this sort of PBS doco is one of them PS My first attempt to load it in Chrome didn’t go so well – I had better luck with Firefox.
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