Wissam Kontar (@kontarwissam) 's Twitter Profile
Wissam Kontar

@kontarwissam

I work on transportation technology, autonomous driving, and complex interactions in transportation systems; From Mount Lebanon 🇱🇧

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

5/ Rory Sutherland in his talk showed how presenting min per x miles is different psychologically from miles per hour: at higher speed it takes 20 additional miles per hour to gain a min/10 miles. In fact in paper (graph below by Peer/Gamliel) authors missed Jensen's inequality.

5/ <a href="/rorysutherland/">Rory Sutherland</a> in his talk showed how presenting min per x miles is different psychologically from miles per hour: at higher speed it takes 20 additional miles per hour to gain a min/10 miles.
In fact in paper (graph below by Peer/Gamliel) authors missed Jensen's inequality.
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2) The asymmetry: it is when you go against time that you must prove reliability, not the reverse. Why? Because nature & time have near infinite stat significance. There is NO study showing LT health effects of consuming chemically extracted deodorized lubricants. Follow the $$$

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Ceasefire of no ceasefire, I will be in Beirut in 2 w to give a talk at American University of Beirut Engineering (@MSFEA ) in support of the university's remarkable ability to gain from disorder. Beirut: since the Bronze Age Collapse, 3200 years of Antifragility.

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@franceskalbs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Breaking News: The ICC's Pre-Trial Chamber has just issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. As the int'l community braces for potential repercussions, we must work together to keep the flame of accountbility

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Yesterday Israel killed at least 89 Lebanese civilians. You can gaslight all you want, but of it acts like a terrorist state, kills like a terrorist state, it is a terrorist state.

Melanie Schweizer 🇩🇪 (@melaniebelizi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Gaza, the prelude of the end of humanity. We have been watching a live streamed genocide for 14 months, while our political leaders have clapped hands to it. Never in my life will I get over this horror alternative reality. A never ending black mirror episode.

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Christian Lebanese Federalists don't get fractality & have been misinterpreting my OWN work. Being localist/Federalist doesn't mean extraction from your environment & being a bystander to crimes not far from you. The organization is: friends and family, tribe, collection of

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Watch along as Zhong highlights her start in #transportation, current research focus on human-centered transportation, collaboration with peers within the UW-Madison College of Engineering, and advice for new and current graduate and undergraduate students. youtube.com/watch?v=FoibE3…

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Our recent work Elsevier Transport shows that voluntary driver interventions in Automated Vehicles can disrupt traffic flow. Our study models this behavior, and proposes a controller to mitigate it. Check it out: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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It's not over, but some hope: last night I went to bed at 8:30 & slept for ~11 hours straight, the first serene night in 467. You can't watch a massacre for so long without feeling the toll of helplessness & bystander guilt; I wonder what Palestinians feel.

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SAVE THE DATE! The University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the University of Nebraska at Omaha are proud to host the 2025 ASCE Mid-America Student Symposium!To learn more about this year’s MidAmerica Student Symposium below: studentsymposium.asce.org/mid-america/

SAVE THE DATE!
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the University of Nebraska at Omaha are proud to host the 2025 ASCE Mid-America Student Symposium!To learn more about this year’s MidAmerica Student Symposium below: studentsymposium.asce.org/mid-america/
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Friends, American University of Beirut MSFEA (Engineering) will be starting a comprehensive class on statistics of THICK TAILS. I will co-teach w/2 colleagues. While we believe that there are courses on Fat tails here & there (mostly Stable dist & EVT), I could not find such a class taught

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Nothing is more fragile for a minority than reliance on protection from foreign powers (Maronites w/France, Orthodox w/Russia, Shiites w/Iran, Maghrebi Jews w/France). It prevents local integration & the minoriry will be left hanging when inevitably dumped by the foreign power.

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The big lie is that the "Arabs" came to displace the "original" Israelite population. The reality is that religions came and went, the population stayed largely the same. Palestinians are the closest to ancient Israelites. They converted to Christianity then Islam.