Konstantinos
@tsifkos
Electrical Engineer | Risk Taker | Aspiring Erudite | Trying to live happily in a world that I don’t understand | #RWRI
Today is a big day for this humble X account. Thank you @nntaleb for the follow!
“As there is always more misery among the poor, they are more accustomed to helping one another. The rich never help each other, because they never need to.” Victor Hugo “It is a curious fact, but it is only the poor who are generous. The rich are often afraid of losing…
What does a 5% or 10% correlation mean in real life? Nothing outside of shit psychology papers. Consider the probability of Y >=0 conditional on X>=0.
Serious fragility: high valuation combined with absence of cash flow.
Yet another overview of Ancient Greek prepositions.
The worst part is that one day the kids will find out. And when they do, they’ll realize their childhood was outsourced by someone blogging about “skin in the game” without ever having any. Beware of people selling you virtue without paying the price
i once worked as a live-in nanny for 3 small kids in hawaii. the parents were burnt out and didn’t really like parenting. they had 2 nannies covering 7am-8pm 7 days a week. the dad worked a few hours a day and the mom didn’t work. years later i saw the dad had started a blog…
Stephen Wolfram visits RWRI 20 (The Real World Risk Summer School, 2025) Automata, computational irreducibility, ruliad, self-proving theorems, etc. youtu.be/pve8TYM7fbA
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Sitting for hours daily shrinks your brain, even if you exercise. New 7-year study (n=404): → Faster hippocampal atrophy → Worse memory performance → Slower processing speed 87% met exercise guidelines but STILL declined.
Sitting for hours daily shrinks your brain, even if you exercise. New 7-year study (n=404): → Faster hippocampal atrophy → Worse memory performance → Slower processing speed 87% met exercise guidelines but STILL declined.
Sitting for hours daily shrinks your brain, even if you exercise. New 7-year study (n=404): → Faster hippocampal atrophy → Worse memory performance → Slower processing speed 87% met exercise guidelines but STILL declined.
Antifragile
Things the USSR left us - Marxism, KGB and fungus feeding on nuclear radiation..
Finally arrived; it’s going to be a busy weekend 😁 P.S. I wish I had asked for a signed copy @ole_b_peters @alex_adamou
10 writers whose books I’ve read five or more of: 1: Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2: Antony Beevor 3: Albert Camus 4: Hélène Glykatzi-Ahrweiler 5: Robert Greene 6: Walter Isaacson 7: Nikos Kazantzakis 8: Friedrich Nietzsche 9: J.R.R. Tolkien 10: Stephen King
10 writers whose books I’ve read five or more of: 1- Balzac 2- Hanna Mina 3- Dostoyevsky 4- Anthony Trollope 5- Emile Zola 6- Roger Martin du Gard 6- Alberto Moravia 7- Frederic Dard 8- Graham Greene 9- Lawrence Durrell 10- Sommerset Maugham etc.
OOPS! The US 30y yield has climbed back above 5%.
For 17 years, soil microbiologist Robert Kremer studied what happens in the soil when we plant GMO crops. His findings contradict conventional assumptions about modern agriculture’s impact on the invisible world beneath our feet.
For 17 years, soil microbiologist Robert Kremer studied what happens in the soil when we plant GMO crops. His findings contradict conventional assumptions about modern agriculture’s impact on the invisible world beneath our feet.
All rumors are false until officially denied.
As a former Israeli Prime Minister, with the Mossad having reported directly to me, I say to you with 100% certainty: The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false. Epstein’s conduct,…
The gift that keeps on giving: my infamous coin toss. One optimistic line: "economists call it the ergodicity problem." Perhaps one day it will be true. So far, out of the 500,000 economists on earth, only a handful understand what ergodicity is and why it matters.
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An analogy between the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and writing with chatGPT I was stuck with the next sentence of dialogue in something I was writing. I had described someone being appalled at something someone said but couldn’t think of a good sentence indicate it . 1/n
In 2024, in the EU, there were nearly 202 million private households. 23.6% included children, 76.4% did not. 👨👩👧🏡 Highest shares of households with children in: 🇸🇰Slovakia (35.6%) 🇮🇪Ireland (31.0%) Lowest: 🇫🇮Finland (18.0%) 🇱🇹Lithuania (19.6%) 👉europa.eu/!b6VgXg
You are free if and only if you are just not afraid to irritate journalists, but even derive enjoyment from ticking them off. Practically all "billionaires", business executives, intellectuals, and "A-List" people are scared stiff of the media.