http://blog.taivo.net/ Taivo Lints occasionally writes down ideas related to his PhD thesis, complex adaptive systems, science in general, or maybe just about everything. Plus, now and then, some fun stuff :D en Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:22:02 +0200 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Dotclear http://blog.taivo.net/post/2008/09/13/Book%3A-Black-Swan-by-Nassim-Nicholas-Taleb#c8432617 urn:md5:b8ecec0e5a3bc09030266355238fcf18 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:58:55 +0200 David <p>Hi Taivo, you have convinced me, I am getting this book!</p> http://blog.taivo.net/post/2008/09/13/Book%3A-Black-Swan-by-Nassim-Nicholas-Taleb#c8416720 urn:md5:ab0e2d0a393c3bba4311f9ac7d1b7d77 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:53:47 +0200 Taivo Lints <p>A fun pic related to the book :)</p> <p><a href="http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=128320" rel="nofollow">http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=128320</a></p> http://blog.taivo.net/post/2008/09/13/Book%3A-Black-Swan-by-Nassim-Nicholas-Taleb#c8322843 urn:md5:577e0d2cc2955c7c19d3d0d7b7c2aac4 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:24:27 +0300 Taivo Lints <p>Thanks! Actually I think the review is a little bit too long, but I couldn't make it much shorter without throwing out important content...</p> http://blog.taivo.net/post/2008/09/13/Book%3A-Black-Swan-by-Nassim-Nicholas-Taleb#c8321370 urn:md5:db6a21c79796109e13356683b5b00821 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:15:39 +0300 David <p>Great review Taivo!</p> http://blog.taivo.net/post/2008/07/18/Book%3A-Read-Japanese-Today#c8255755 urn:md5:af2dbf6804d8e99f4485bb24c5553d1e Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:24:22 +0300 Taivo Lints <p>Hehe, well, I'm doing many diverse things, you know :D Actually I bought this book from St. John's College bookshop in 2004, if I remember correctly. Recently the Japanese-learning has been on hold, but yes, I plan to learn a bit more at some point.</p> http://blog.taivo.net/post/2008/07/18/Book%3A-Read-Japanese-Today#c8255628 urn:md5:74ec318d7baa4c990e5e3234f0ab3046 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:36:49 +0300 David <p>So now you are learning japanese?!?</p> http://blog.taivo.net/post/2007/06/24/Book%3A-Dynamic-Patterns-by-Scott-Kelso#c1431561 urn:md5:997b24c7631220ce16f921bc800b2095 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:22:14 +0300 Taivo Lints <p>Thanks for the suggestion! I'll take a closer look at it if I happen to see it somewhere (I currently don't feel like ordering it right away :).</p> <p>As much as I understand from the reviews and the (somewhat obscure :) website <a href="http://www.thecomplementarynature.com" title="http://www.thecomplementarynature.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.thecomplementarynature.c...</a> , the book first discusses how the interpretations of oppositions / contraries have affected philosophy and science, and then goes on to apply Kelso &amp; Co.'s nonlinear dynamics models to show how opposing tendencies may coexist at the same time and that the brain is likely to work that way...</p> http://blog.taivo.net/post/2007/06/24/Book%3A-Dynamic-Patterns-by-Scott-Kelso#c1421586 urn:md5:0bcdb0b2c560fa38df629740033e67ef Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:34:19 +0300 Richard <p>you might want to have a look at his most recent book, that I liked better: The Complementary Nature written with David Angstron</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Complementary-Nature-Bradford-Books/dp/0262112914/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/002-5639326-4617626?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1182745958&amp;sr=8-3" title="http://www.amazon.com/Complementary-Nature-Bradford-Books/dp/0262112914/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/002-5639326-4617626?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1182745958&amp;sr=8-3" rel="nofollow"> http://www.amazon.com/Complementary...</a></p>