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A graphical description of how Maxwell’s Equations lead to electromagnetic waves. Maxwells Equations Make Waves
Comments closedThough I hardly run much anymore, I recently bought myself a pair of fluorescent-pink Nike Vaporfly shoes (the only color available), the ones in which…
Comments closedThere is an unfortunate strain of pedantry running through the teac ing of quantitative finance, one in- volving an excess of abstraction, formality, rigor, and…
Comments closedGood hotels disembody you but don’t depersonalize you. Why Is This Interesting: Life in the Hotel Okura
Comments closedVolatility is the propensity to continually change one’s current state, irrespective of the direction of the change. … Whereas uncertainty came late in the discussion…
Comments closedOne of my favorite artworks is a 1986 collage by David Hockney called Pearblossom Hwy. A photo or print cannot do justice to the original,…
Comments closedI’ve lived here for close to fifty years, but I still see it with foreign eyes through which New York is a glamorous sophisticated place…
Comments closedThe other night I was having dinner with an erstwhile collaborator (academic, not WWII) and we were talking about the relation between psychological time and…
Comments closedLate in life, when his roots should have held him steady, he became unmoored, and it seemed inappropriate. But who determined what was appropriate?
Comments closedI find myself increasingly in irritated disagreement with the many neuroscientists and evangelically professional atheists who think that science is everything, that matter is all we have, and that photographic images of chemicals glowing in the brain are equivalent to thoughts and feelings. (I have no problem with their simply disbelieving in God.)
Comments closedThe good days are here once again for models of the physical world: after a drought of almost fifty years, physicists at CERN have discovered what seems to be the long-awaited Higgs boson
Comments closedI postulate that you can understand what happened to the NY Times Science section by comparing nbcolympics.com… to bbc.com… vis a vis Olympic reporting.
Comments closedWhen I came to write my memoir, the perception of having been a second-class citizen in the early days of quantitative strategies led me to think of the movie My Life as a Dog, and modify Dog to Quant for the title. The subtext was meant to be dogs.
Comments closedWhat the police were doing was practicing tail risk elimination.
Comments closedAll our fashions, in those days, were imported from America.
Comments closedSometimes, quite often, Absence is so powerful that it’s a Presence of its own.
Comments closedI dislike Mayor Bloomberg telling me I can’t smoke a cigar in Central Park, nudge stuff, and nanny states. And yet I find myself liking the fact that they are going to outlaw 640z sodas in NYC. I am impaled on the horns of a dilemma.
Comments closedHere is a counterintuitive truth I have discovered about the physical world.
Comments closedThe U.S. dollar is an IOU issued by the Treasury and backed by the full faith and credit etc. Which means what?
Comments closedWhen so many smart people disagree, how do they expect anyone to be convinced?
Comments closedEvery day I seem to come across new articles or incidents concerning universities that indicate the increasing strength of t.he tidal forces pulling at them and their denizens
Comments closedThe other day I used the Chase app on my iPhone to deposit a check from my health insurance for $17.32.
Comments closedWhen the era of rationality finally dawned, it became clear to everyone that love doesn’t last.
Comments closedMust one do things as well as one possibly can? If you don’t want to, is that a bug or a feature? And, beyond a certain age, does it matter?
Comments closedI don’t understand money too well, the idea of it, what exactly it is.
Comments closedThe other day while teaching I suddenly briefly felt really ill with a pain in my lower back and then broke out in a copious cold sweat over every part of me; even the hair on my head was as wet as though I’d had a five mile run.
Comments closedAs more and more people I know edge into retirement lifestyles, I found myself thinking on vacation about how I’d like to live. I know people who travel nonstop, but that’s not for me.
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