The COVID-19 pandemic has been a sobering reminder of the extensive damage brought
about by epidemics, phenomena that play a vivid role in our collective memory, and that have …

TBS) is only critical of statistics, statisticians, or users of statistics in a very narrow (but
consequential) set of circumstances. It was written by a veteran practitioner of uncertainty whose …

The monograph investigates the misapplication of conventional statistical techniques to fat
tailed distributions and looks for remedies, when possible. Switching from thin tailed to fat …

Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark … Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
the bestselling author of The Black … What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that …

Destined to become a market classic, Dynamic Hedging is the only practical reference in
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty,
probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don't …

# 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that
challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance …

The notions of fragility and antifragility were introduced by Taleb (2012). In short, fragility is
related to how a system suffers from the variability of its environment beyond a certain preset …

We just don't want to just survive uncertainty, to just about make it. We want to survive uncertainty
and, in addition—like a certain class of aggressive Roman Stoics—have the last word. …

The paper presents evidence that econometric techniques based on variance–L 2 norm–are
flawed and do not replicate. The result is un-computability of the role of tail events. The …