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from here:
“Please note, this transmission is not optimized for easy listening, but for scientific research. […] Additionally, animal voices may be very faint. Amplifier settings are a compromise between picking up distant animals and not overdriving the system by nearby calving icebergs. So you might need to pump up the volume - but beware of sudden extremely loud events.”
see the visually-nice spectrogram here
The perfect winter soundtrack.
( Сергей Рахманинов, Piano #3 in D minor )
Podcast with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007.
Explaining why our usual ways of thinking at events in life are basically wrong.
Also, in 2007: “Globalization creates interlocking fragility, while reducing volatility and giving the appearance of stability. In other words it creates devastating Black Swans. We have never lived before under the threat of a global collapse.
Financial Institutions have been merging into a smaller number of very large banks. Almost all banks are interrelated. So the financial ecology is swelling into gigantic, incestuous, bureaucratic banks – when one fails, they all fall.” Spot on.
