Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb · first published 2020
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Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails by Nassim Taleb.
on “What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years? [pdf]” ↗The latest on this is “Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails: Real World Preasymptotics, Epistemology, and Applications” by Nassim Taleb. I liked this PDF so much I bought the book. https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10488
on “The Three Sides of Risk” ↗you should read Taleb's new book "Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails"
on “For reliable excess returns, VC funds need 500 investments” ↗…investors hold a global, diversified portfolio" - Jan 21 2020 Had you have listened to him, you would have just been taken out back, shot, and put in one of wuhans finest crematoriums… better off reading "Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails"[0] [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10488
on “Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?” ↗I am applying the same technique trying to learn basic statistics by reading Taleb's "Statistical consequences of Fat Tails", the book he dedicated to Nicki Minaj
on “Trick I learned from Nassim Taleb to get better at chess and chess variants fast” ↗From the Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails (N. Taleb): "We will address ad nauseam the central limit theorem but here is the initial intuition. It states that n-summed independent random variables with finite second moment end up looking like…
on “It Takes Long to Become Gaussian” ↗…correspondence, intuitionistic logic, theorem proving with dependent types, etc. 2. Rust Atomics and Locks: Low-Level Concurrency in Practice by Mara Bos Great introduction even for non-Rust programmers. 3. Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails by N. Taleb et al. I've just started to read it, but looks promising (lot of mathematical statistics).
on “Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?” ↗More on this subject is Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails book[1]. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10488
on “Logs, Tails, Long Tails (2013)” ↗I am referring to his technical works like "Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails" or his journal publications (the question is not about his books for the general public like Black Swan). Is his work relevant in any way to your daily work or to your field of research?
on “Ask HN: How relevant is the technical work of Nassim Nicholas Taleb?” ↗…lined up - Math for programmers (No starch press), Practical Statistics for data scientists (O'Reily - the crab book), and Discovering Statistics using R. Basically I'm trying to follow the theory from "Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails" by NNT.
on “Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics” ↗Didn't expect to see statistical consequences of fat tails! I bought that book and it was soooooo dense. I had trouble keeping up with it even after rereading it. Its basically a textbook
on “Familial Transmission of Personality Is Higher Than Shown in Typical Studies” ↗