Hacker Papers
- 01
Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails: Real World Preasymptotics, Epistemology, and Applications
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2020Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Aug 2021Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails (2020)
- Sep 2024Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails [pdf]
- Feb 2020Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview
- Mar 2020Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?
- Mar 2020Black Swan Events
- Apr 2020New nuclear reactor designs promise safe, clean electricity
- Oct 2020The Three Sides of Risk
- Oct 2020Logs, Tails, Long Tails (2013)
- Jul 2023It Takes Long to Become Gaussian
- May 2024Familial Transmission of Personality Is Higher Than Shown in Typical Studies
- 02
Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2021Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility [pdf]
- Sep 2021Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility
- Jul 2021Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility
- Aug 2021Snowden, Phony hence Traitor?
- Jan 2022Crypto: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Feb 2022Ask HN: Does Anyone else working in a crypto company feel this is all a scam?
- Apr 2022The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of gold today
- May 2022Crypto assets are ‘worth nothing,’ says ECB’s Christine Lagarde
- May 2023How An Obscure OTC-Traded Derivative From The 80s Took Over Crypto
- 03
The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2020The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
- Oct 2025The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
- Jul 2020The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
- Nov 2020Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance
- Mar 2021What If You Could Describe Your Dreams While Dreaming?
- Oct 2024We Can Terraform the American West
- 04
If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2021A Simple Model of Grabby Aliens
- Nov 2022If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare (2021)
- Feb 2021A Simple Model of Grabby Aliens
- Feb 2021Once we can see them, it’s too late
- Sep 2021If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare
- Jun 2024Welcome to the age of space scepticism – and a growing revolt against elites
- Nov 2024Experts testify at UFO hearing in Congress
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