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by justin66 3040 days ago
> The really interesting philosophies emerge from the trenches and the battles in the field. For example, the most surprising meta-level insights on randomness come from Nassim Taleb's decade-long experience in trading securities.

I don't think Taleb would say his work was more important or "surprising" than the work of Mandelbrot, an academic.