Konstantinos Profile
Konstantinos

@tsifkos

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Electrical Engineer | Risk Taker | Aspiring Erudite | Trying to live happily in a world that I don’t understand | #RWRI

Thessaloniki, Greece
Joined January 2011
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Today is a big day for this humble X account. Thank you @nntaleb for the follow!
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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
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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.
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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.
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RT @Schuldensuehner: OOPS! The US 30y yield has climbed back above 5%.
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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.
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RT @nntaleb: All rumors are false until officially denied.
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RT @ole_b_peters: The gift that keeps on giving: my infamous coin toss. One optimistic line: "economists call it the ergodicity problem."….
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RT @EmanuelDerman: An analogy between the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and writing with chatGPT. I was stuck with the next sentence o….
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RT @EU_Eurostat: In 2024, in the EU, there were nearly 202 million private households. 23.6% included children, 76.4% did not. 👨‍👩‍👧🏡. High….
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RT @nntaleb: You are free if and only if you are just not afraid to irritate journalists, but even derive enjoyment from ticking them off.….
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RT @GrecoLevantines: We are not asking the Greek government for money or visas. We are asking for something far more meaningful: to use its….
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Accountability carved in basalt. #SkinInTheGame.#Hammurabi
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RT @TalebWisdom: "Only in recent history has “working hard” signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse, and, mostly, spre….
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RT @naval: Don’t make things so you can make money; make money so you can make things.
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RT @TalebWisdom: "Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant."….
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RT @Indian_Bronson: You should cherish today's world. It won't remain for long. - humanoid robots aren't *everywhere*.- flying drones aren….
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RT @vtchakarova: One day, in a dusty old classroom filled with wide-eyed students, a teacher stood at the chalkboard, writing out the 9 tim….
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2/2 is it only me or is this happening to others when reading such translated books !? It’s so frustrating that I wish I had opted for the original English version. .
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1/2 Currently reading the Greek translation of Making sense of chaos, and I am constantly catching myself translating terms from Greek back to English. E.g. ενισχυτική μάθηση -> reinforcement learning, οικολογική ορθολογικότητα -> ecological rationality
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RT @nntaleb: My via negativa heuristic: these are the book you can avoid reading. Also merge with the NYT list. Journos are so interested i….
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RT @DellAnnaLuca: Your regular reminder that regression lines should never be drawn. Either they add no value (if the effect is evident fr….
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