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POSTED — June 14, 2017
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Lecture at Institute of Physics
Lecture on Models Behaving Badly
Interview on Barry Ritholz’s Masters in Business on Bloomberg Radio
POSTED — February 28, 2016 — Interviews
The Guardian Panel on the Piketty Phenomenon
Economists: … The only field more self-confidently but just as regularly wrong as economics is nutrition, whose recommendations to shun butter/margarine or red meat/carbohydrates regularly reverse themselves.
POSTED — September 23, 2014 — In The Press
"The axiomatic basis of theoretical physics cannot be extracted from experience, but must be freely invented"
POSTED — April 18, 2017 — Quotes
Where You End and Others Begin
One of the most useful things a person can know about himself is where he or she begins and where other people end.
POSTED — April 8, 2017 — Quotes
Old Blog Post About Emigres from Totalitarian Countries
In Pyongyang the skies were clear at night …
POSTED — November 27, 2016 — Miscellany
A Stylized History of Quantitative Finance
The evolution of a quantitative approach to finance has proceeded through many small but significant steps and occasional large epiphanies.
POSTED — November 15, 2016 — Miscellany
Was there a deeper rationality behind his economically irrational behavior?
POSTED — September 18, 2016 — Behavioral Finance Puzzles
A Scientific Approach to the Foundations of Finance
One approach that unifies both asset pricing and derivatives pricing.
A lightning 5-minute talk given at Bloomberg on Thursday August 27 2015.
POSTED — August 28, 2015 — Lectures
Smoking (Part of Involuntary Affinities, Elective Aversions)
Cigarette packs were more versatile too; smokes came in variety of containers to match your lifestyle.
POSTED — April 3, 2015 — Opinions
My Review of “The Age of Cryptocurrency”
Having observed the unsuppressable libido of capitalism, I’m inclined to think that if Bitcoin succeeds, some corporation will hijack its anarchist roots and make a lot of money the usual way.
POSTED — March 21, 2015 — In The Press
What does it feel like to work in a world of uncertainty?
POSTED — March 21, 2015 — In The Press
In the interests of accurate reporting, your intrepid and difficult-to-disgust columnist immersed himself in both Book 1 of the Fifty Shades trilogy to see if he could apprehend their charms.
POSTED — February 21, 2015 — Column, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Let X be the Unknown: The Miracle of Algebra
As recollected from a Walt Kelly Pogo Cartoon in the NY Post in the early 1970s. Somewhere I have the original cartoon, which I will scan and post once I find it.
POSTED — December 23, 2014 — Miscellany
- @zzbar It was on — Yesterday
- @zzbar Where do you turn that on? — Yesterday
- @zzbar Good idea except for at home and work. But I will try — Yesterday
- @mndl_nyc It’s been at 103 for a long time. I want a specialist. And they exist — Yesterday
- If my temperature were 103 would you 1. Dunk me in cold water 2. Give me penicillin 3. Give me antiviral 4. Use a shorter thermometer — Yesterday