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Vancouver Career College Health Care Assistant Student Balances Her Family and Career

vccollege wrote 6 days ago: Subscribe http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=VCCollege Amanda, a Heath Care Assista … more →

Tags: videos, Abbotsford Campus, Vancouver Career College, Health Maintenance, health protection, Medical Management, Preventive Medicine, Abbotsford campus, salubriousness

A portfolio of micro-ventures

Bruce Stewart wrote 2 weeks ago: If there’s one thing public policy at all levels of government doesn’t really understand … more →

Tags: Future threats and opportunities, going Independent, Micro Ventures, Portfolios

A Maxim within a Maxim. Of Ideas and Ideologies. Of Particulars versus Kinds.

φ wrote 1 month ago: We usually articulate ideas in order critique them, refine them, make them more robust. But as a tac … more →

Tags: Politics, Maxims, Hermeneutics, Psychology, Philosophy, language, (Criticisms and Critiques), Idea, Individual

Mathematical abstraction and the robustness to assumptions1 comment

Corey Chivers wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been showing my new favourite toys to just about anyone foolish enough to actually engage … more →

Tags: Decision Making, Probability, rstats, Teaching, uncertainty, Dice, Grime Dice, model assumptions, non-transitive

Bayesian non-parametrics1 comment

xi'an wrote 1 month ago: Here is a short discussion I wrote yesterday with Judith Rousseau of a paper by Peter Müller and Rit … more →

Tags: statistics, Bayesian non-parametrics, Bayesian analysis, asymptotics, Dirichlet process, consistency, Bernstein-von Mises theorem, prior modelling, flexibility

A methodological progression1 comment

Sean wrote 1 month ago: (with thanks to Jill Bowie) Introduction One of the most controversial arguments in corpus linguisti … more →

Tags: Experimental Design, alternate, Annotation, baseline, Choice, corpora, corpus, Grammar, Linguistics

The Robustness of Children

michaelschoon wrote 1 month ago: The old saw is that a man with one watch knows what time it is, but a man with two is never sure.  T … more →

Tags: Resilience

Resilience... Who needs it?

Mike Meldrum wrote 2 months ago: When Failure Strikes…Photo Courtesy: Wan Chiang Tan Last weekend, every Rugby and League Footb … more →

Tags: Leadership, business purpose, Failure, leadership, Management, mission, Personal Impact, Resilience

Linear Control Theory: Structure, Robustness, and Optimization (Automation and Control Engineering) (Kindle Edition)

vasquezerik19blog3 wrote 2 months ago: Linear Control Theory: Structure, Robustness, and Optimization (Automation and Control Engineering) … more →

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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Tags: Economics, black swan, improbability, smallness, Forecasting

Ecology and the Tragedy of the Commons1 comment

proopnarine wrote 3 months ago: Well, it’s been quite some time since the last post, but I’ve been busy! This post is ju … more →

Tags: CEG theory, ecology, publications, scientific models, real world networks, Tragedy of the Commons

Are You A Game Changing Entrepreneur?

Chuck Watts, Co-Founder wrote 4 months ago: Republished with permission from the author, Joe Brewer, Empathy Surplus Project consultant. Have yo … more →

Tags: mutual responsibility, Liberal Markets, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, kickstarter, AirBnB, Zipcar, Immune system, dynamical system, Dynamical system

Avida Project

Alia Qatarneh wrote 4 months ago: Introduction Robustness, the ability of an organism’s genome to withstand mutations without having a … more →

Tags: Academia, Biology, microbial evolution, Avida, Evolvability

Antifragility

chubbm wrote 5 months ago: Noted essayist, author, scholar and trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb‘s recently published book Ant … more →

Tags: Leaders are readers, antifragility, fragility, Resilience, Resources, Risk

Richard E. Wagner on entangled political economy, degeneracy and robustness

trentjmacdonald wrote 5 months ago: Below are some words from Richard E. Wagner’s article ‘Retrogressive regime drift within … more →

Tags: Quotes, Papers, Degeneracy, Complexity

The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Taleb - book review

probaway wrote 5 months ago: The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Taleb – book review. I have read Taleb’s books with gust … more →

Tags: Reviews, Evolution, Nassim Taleb, fragility

How to measure welfare in multiple dimensions: the case of India

lancelothdf wrote 5 months ago: It is now widely agreed that welfare is a multidimensional concept.  That is, welfare does not reduc … more →

Tags: Scientific Papers, Welfare, inequality, Welfare, measurement, multidimensional

Research Paper2 comments

Aimy wrote 5 months ago: I am worried. I have a research paper due in a month and 10 days. Seems like a long time but I don … more →

Tags: General, Research, paper, Assignment, Econometrics, Replication, Quantitative methods, Worried

Quest for Stability

kswenson wrote 6 months ago: A friend referred me to this excellent article about preparing for system disaster:  Resilience Engi … more →

Tags: Design, Design, reliability, servers, Architecture


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