
Nassim Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, mathematical statistician, and former option trader and risk analyst, whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.
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Free The Animal
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Happy Accidents
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I Think, Therefore I Laugh
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Idea Makers
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Invariances
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Kant and the Platypus
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Mapping the Mind
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Market Wizards
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Mathematics
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Mean Genes
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Modelling Extremal Events
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Models. Behaving. Badly.
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Modern Aramaic (Assyrinan/Syriac) Dictionary
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No Bull
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Order Without Design
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Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar
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Rational Decisions
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Scale
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Seeking Wisdom
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Social Cognition
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Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails
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Statistical Models
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The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
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The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
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The Bitcoin Standard
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The Blank Slate
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The Blank Swan
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The Cancer Code
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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The Dao of Capital
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The Discovery of France
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The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition
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The Dream of Reason
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The Elements of Statistical Learning
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The Formula
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The French Revolution and What Went Wrong
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The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
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The Invisible Gorilla
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The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion
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The Making of a Philosopher
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The Mind Doesn't Work That Way
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The Opposing Shore
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The Science of Conjecture
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The Secret of Fatima
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The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets
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The Sunday Philosophy Club
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The Wisdom Paradox
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