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Philip Tetlock: Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs
Found via The Big Picture.Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs from The Long Now Foundation on FORA.tv
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Links, And A Few Comments
The Motley Fool interviews Sanjay Bakshi (LINK) Focusing on the Investment Process (LINK) Economic Inequality: The Simplified Version - by Paul Graham (LINK) Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Real Financial Risks of 2016 (LINK) Teams of foxes make...
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Nate Silver On The Launch Of Espn’s New Fivethirtyeight, Burritos, And Being A Fox
Link to article: Nate Silver on the Launch of ESPN’s New FiveThirtyEight, Burritos, and Being a FoxStats superstar Nate Silver hates the term “data-driven.” He also hates the work of just about every popular columnist at all of the major newspapers,...
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The Quixotic Quest To Make Pundits Suck Less
Thanks to Sean for passing this along. “The average expert’s forecasts were revealed to be only slightly more accurate than random guessing—or, to put more harshly, only a bit better than the proverbial dart-throwing chimpanzee. And the average...
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Is The Chinese Bubble Ready To Burst?
Thanks to Phil for passing this along. The discussion of whether or not the Chinese economy is a bubble destined to collapse, or if the recent rash of media over empty cities and spiraling food costs are merely sensationalistic hype masking an unstoppable...
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Hedgehogs And Foxes
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” -Archilochos In the book Boombustology (which I’d put in my list of ‘Top 10 Most Important Books on Investing’), Vikram Mansharamani states that: The basic underlying logic of...
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