After reading Fooled By Randomness a while back, I’m looking forward to reading Taleb’s new book, The Black Swan. I grabbed a copy of it today and it looks like it will be a good read.
Phew! I guess my love for chess is not all that geeky after all. It’s good to see events like the Hip-Hop, Chess and Life Strategies: II Exhibition being put together by the Hip Hop Chess Federation. While Hip Hop in its current form can be criticized for various shortcomings, I still believe that anything [...]
This weekend, the port in my hometown of Hamburg, Germany is celebrating its 818th birthday. Quite well aged I would say! Wish I could be there, there’s always lots of fun to be had.