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Nassim Nicholas Taleb [a] (/ ˈ t ɑː l ə b /; alternatively Nessim or Nissim; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist.
FIRST TYPE OF RISK TRANSFER— THE STANDARD CASE PATIENT-DOCTOR The Hippocratic injunction has been generalized (Taleb, 2018a) across fields where tampering with natural systems to “improve” them leads to a transfer of risk from the visible to the invisible, and from the practitioner to the patient.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, NY 11201, USA NNT1@nyu.edu Abstract. This paper applies risk analysis to medical problems, through the properties of nonlinear responses (convex or concave). It shows 1) necessary relations between the nonlinearity of dose-response and the sta-
7 gru 2023 · Recently, Nasim Taleb’s antifragility framework (Taleb 2012) has theorized the role of positive stress for complex systems, such as financial markets. Here, we explore (1) the theoretical...
29 lis 2011 · The notion of antifragility, an attribute of systems that makes them thrive under variable conditions, has recently been proposed by Nassim Taleb in a business context. This idea requires the ability of such systems to ‘tinker’, i.e., to creatively respond to changes in their environment.
26 maj 2020 · We argue that our findings have significant implications, including on the extent to which compartmental epidemiological models and similar approaches can be relied upon for making policy decisions. Link to the Paper – Tail risk of contagious diseases. Tagged with COVID-19, EVT, Fat Tails, Pandemics, Tail Risk.
I. INTRODUCTION. THe. segment of it—at risk from the unexpected side effects of a certain type of decision. The PP states that if an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing severe harm to the public domain (such as general hea. Corresponding author: N N Taleb, email NNT1@nyu.edu. cum. tances require the use of the PP .
