Some background to the statistical discussions: hiking with Stephen @WolframResearch but without Mathematica on a computer. #Mars2022
Category: MathFlaneur
I made a mistake. I wrote that “nobody reads textbooks for pleasure”. Well, I now do. 1) They look like old illuminated MS (unlike drab books), #Lindy. 2) Much, much more pleasureable to read physically than digitally (in spite of, or owing to, the weight: 2 vol = 24lbs).
“If you don’t know the context, statistics are meaningless.” Andrew Gelman
This looks gorgeous! I don’t know if it is easy to prove but this identity is absolutely georgeous ! Ramanujanesque ! For pleasure & aesthetics, never for science. Different domain. Good catch.
Mandelbrot and Taleb loved arguing, if you did not see the smile on their face and the enthusiasm u cld mistake them for arrogant, they simply wanted to get to the bottom of things and did not buy into political correctness when discussing, I was lucky to witness it
Finally, after 2 ½ years, Maestro’s book is on sale. The riddles were entirely done on Twitter!
Great. I am “tembel” (lazy). God invented Laplace to avoid doing work.
MathFlaneur: my first blog post
To kill time today. There must be a trick. Must be by hand, use mathematica as editor
1/n The great Mandelbrot despised Fama whom he found both clueless & dishonorable. Fama was a French major & M supervised his thesis; they applied the Levy-Stable Distribution for markets (mistake since it’s a limit not met preasymtotically). Then Fama turned on M to use MPT. Fama’s reasons was that Fat Tails were “incompatible with the tools in social science”. It’s like using the map of Tokyo in Mexico because “here is a map”. I actually wrote to Fama & got same HORRENDOUS answer. Mandelbrot saw Fama never understood the CONSEQUENCES of tails. 3/n Mandelbrot’s contempt for Fama prompted to ignore story in book but it is revived by the connection to the *AQR lunatic* the disgusting @CliffordAsness Fat tails invalidate the tools of finance and Fama is indeed by his own admission unscientific. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1544508050/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i21 … 4/n The great Mandelbrot was 100% uncompromising. But he suffered because he cared abt honors & academic status; he depended on a certain establishment. So I learned from him to do opposite 1) be 100% independent, 2) Do theorems & proofs (which, being intuitive, he hated). 5/n Mandelbrot has a monstrous scientific erudition & a yuuge curiosity. He knew arcane math stuff only autodidacts know. But he respected erudition much more than scientific rank, based on his fascinations with polyglot characters like Jean de Menasce.
