Cerebral

Bhaskar Thakur

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This is Cerebral, a podcast by Bhaskar Thakur in which he shares his reflections on various random topics that he comes across by consuming quality content. Programming since the age 10, Bhaskar Thakur is a teenage entrepreneur and voracious reader. His point of view on topics are mainly influenced by statistics and are mostly contrarian.

16/10/2018

03 - Dead people cannot write Autobiographies

In this episode, Bhaskar talks about the problem of Silent Evidence, a term coined by the author Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book Black Swan. We'll be learning the silent evidence fallacy by listening to examples related to forecasters, gamblers etc.

10 min
25/07/2018

02 - Alternative Histories - Importance of the unobservable

In this episode, Bhaskar talks about a mental model called Alternative Histories, a term coined by the author Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book Fooled By Randomness. We'll also look at the case of Google and Indian Independence and the alternative histories in these.

14 min
11/07/2018

01 - The case against being offended

In this episode, Bhaskar Thakur discusses why getting offended is a choice and how we could selectively choose to ignore things that offend us. He discusses how being surrounded by agreeable people and our group identities increase our chances of getting offended.

7 min

3 Episodes

This is Cerebral, a podcast by Bhaskar Thakur in which he shares his reflections on various random topics that he comes across by consuming quality content. Programming since the age 10, Bhaskar Thakur is a teenage entrepreneur and voracious reader. His point of view on topics are mainly influenced by statistics and are mostly contrarian.

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Bhaskar Thakur
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Cerebral

Cerebral

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03 - Dead people cannot write Autobiographies

02 - Alternative Histories - Importance of the unobservable

01 - The case against being offended

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