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Interview with Benoit Mandelbrot and Nassim Nicholas Taleb

By Cygnus Atratus

Before I post Nano’s request for the “Money as Debt” video I thought you might like a little commentary from two men who were among the few to predict this current financial clusterfuck. Benoit Mandlebrot and Nassim Nicholas Taleb gave this interview in October 2008, just as things were heading south in an alarming fashion. The... »

Tags and Dates (Reality Tunnels)

By Nano Manannan

Well this seems to be going well. There are a nice variety of topics here already and more importantly we can start to see different interpretations of the topics. Tags are a great way to dive into the content and to link it all together. We could do with editing them a bit though,... »

Next week I’ll be mostly reading about Nassim Nicholas Taleb

By Cygnus Atratus

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb has made a lot of money from the stock markets in the past, being accredited with developing sophisticated financial instruments known as derivatives. He has also made a lot of money in the wake of the recent financial meltdown. Taleb also uses the “Black Swan” event to demonstrate how we fool... »

Fractal Zoom

By Cygnus Atratus

This week I’ll be mostly reading about Benoit Mandelbrot. Mandelbrot famously gave us the Mandelbrot Set, fractals and fractal geometry from his research in the 1950’s through to the late 1970’s. He has presented his work in 1982 in the seminal “Fractal Geometry of Nature” which has become a classic in Chaos Theory. Mandelbrot found fractal... »