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Patrick Brodie
ptbrodie
CRITICAL CONCEPTS IN INFORMATION PROCESSING[thread]A mind is a machine that takes information as its input and generates action as its output.Therefore it's critical that we be able to process information
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Douglas Craig
Douglas9162
My Book Summaries Thread; 'Skin in the Game' by @nntaleb https://twitter.com/douglas9162/status/965904588846051328 'Zero to One' by @peterthiel https://twitter.com/douglas9162/status/967814217545015297 'The War of Art' by @SPr
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Srivatsan V
Sr1vatsanV
#WorldBookDay Best books of this decade1. Land of 7 Rivers, Ocean of Churn, Life over 2 Beers & Other Short Stories by @sanjeevsanyal 2. India's Most Fearless 1 &2 by
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10-K Diver
10kdiver
1/In finance and investing, it pays to be a little paranoid.To develop a strong "survival instinct".To *always* be prepared for adversity -- even when things are going well.Here's a story
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Mike Lawler
mikeandallie
1/n Back in March @nntaleb had a tweet about SIR models that got me interested studying models of virus spread a bit more.https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1239171413342289921 2/n As I often do, I started
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Vizi Andrei
viziandrei
10 Lessons You (And I) Will Learn Too Late(THREAD) “Measure experience in exposure to shocks rather than years.” — @angjiang The man who’s gathering knowledge for the sake of it
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Abubaker Omer
MRAbubaker
Almost everybody is sold some version of world destiny and that the best they can do is just get a seat.- Computer Science & Software: the AI & ML revolution.-
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Roufster
Roufmeister
This triggers a question: the dominant historical/political/economic narrative is that scaling up drives power and prosperity on all fronts. Prime examples include (in no particular geographical order): the roman empire,
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Fabian Spill
FabianSpill
This paper contains one of the most important messages of how we should act when scientists argue for different strategies. Scientists need to debate and explore different strategies. But we
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Clifford Asness
CliffordAsness
I’ve avoided fighting with this insane person for a while, as while sometimes brilliant, he’s often very wrong and clearly both nuts and a world class terrible person. Didn’t need
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Simon DeDeo
SimonDeDeo
For much of my career I assumed people *knew* claims like these were political theater and not to be taken seriously.But now I think, more and more, that it’s important
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Santiago Navarro
SantiagoBiz
#COVID19 is the greatest shared challenge that most of us will yet have faced. As many of us seek clarity for what this means and the implications of this on
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Jo
jperla
Featuring @PetrLudwig @jeremyphoward @balajis @zeynep @rsg @nntaleb @ScottGottliebMD @ScottAdamsSays @DellAnnaLuca @naval https://medium.com/p/4ef05aa357c5?source=linkShare-72308c464041-1586107578 Also featuring @EricRWeinstein https://medium.com/p/4
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Luca Dellanna
DellAnnaLuca
WITTGENSTEIN'S RULER"Unless you have confidence in the ruler’s reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler." -
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Maestro Scott
ScottStemple3
Big Ideas from......"Skin in the Game" by @nntaleb Earlier, I wrote a thread about the book "Antifragile"This created some great conversationsOne stood outHe said that "Antifragile" was Taleb's best book,
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Jawwad Farid
rebootdude
1/ Optionality, volatility and convexity. Three concepts and their interaction that I first learned via @nntaleb and his text on dynamic hedging in the summer of 1998. Together the three
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