… I push open the low front gate to their house. Something happens. As the door opens I register flesh and solidity and a fullness…
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“Brief Hours and Weeks awakes many memories of Cape Town, the city of Emanuel Derman’s youth and mine, as it was half a century ago.…
Comments closedCHAPTER 9. THE ISLE OF CAPRI … I do like girls, but all I want is for them to like me back, a lot. Dayenu. In Montagu…
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This is a review that I just came across from a while back. I like what he says about my long-ago My Life as a…
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Ageism is a mystery and paradox of self-delusion. How can one make disparaging remarks about old people without the consciousness that, if you live long…
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This is my tale of disappointment, of ground-breaking research gone awry and then embraced as a tool for political manipulation, written in December 2012. F.A.Z.-Column…
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Comments closedWhat all of these languages–FORTRAN, C, the UNIX shell sh and its text manipulation tools such as awk, vi and sed–had in common was that…
Comments closedA few weeks ago I watched Marcel Carné’s Children of Paradise. I had heard of it before but always assumed it had something to do…
Comments closedA 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 closedA single name–Bjork or Madonna–is grand. A single name with its own name is even grander.
Comments closedThere is an unfortunate strain of pedantry running through the teaching of quantitative finance, one involving an excess of abstraction, formality, rigor, and axiomatisation that…
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 closedWe examine a broad variety of strategies intended to protect a fund of funds from downside risk, focusing on the protection provided by investing…
Comments closedWhen I was a blue-eyed boy in the early 1950s in Cape Town near the southern tip of Africa, much of the popular music on…
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