I suppose all surprised are unexpected. ? I was in Cannes on Bastille Day after the GAIM conference and what was most impressive was the…
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A question about Southern France: is it my imagination, or does the Coca Cola there taste better than in NYC, and, if it does,…
Comments closedWhen I was looking at a really efficient rider in the Tour de France, not sprinting but simply powering along during the main part of…
Comments closedI was reading the ‘Vows’ section in the Fashion and Style Sunday New York Times today. That ‘s where they describe recent marriages. Here’s an…
Comments closedWe had the orientation for new students at the Columbia FE program yesterday, and I listened to several of our past students talk about how…
Comments closedI found myself thinking about the relative effects of mundane vs extraordinary events, and the effect they have on human life. In my case, what…
Comments closedI recently had some students cheat in a course I teach. What irritated me was that they seemed to regard cheating as a sort of…
Comments closedAbout a year or two ago I sat on an airplane coming back from London and ended up watching ‘School of Rock,’ without any preconceptions,…
Comments closedWell, not quite myths, but objections. I don’t like axiomatization in finance. I believe you should learn things more sloppily the first time around, and…
Comments closedIn a recent New York Review of Books, Freeman Dyson, one of the men who, almost sixty years ago, help prove that quantum electrodynamic was…
Comments closedMany interviews now concentrate on giving people technical and mathematical quizzes. You can get books to help prepare for them. Quizzes are good at finding…
Comments closedI was looking at blogs on google and I found one that referrred to an article I once wrote on how to get a job…
Comments closedNever done a blog before. If you want to know more about me, look at www.emanuelderman.com……. Bombs away. The other night I went to see…
Comments closedIn basketball, doing something patently illegal can be beneficial. In cricket, on the other hand, there is absolutely no advantage to breaking the rules. The…
Comments closedIntroduction to the Japanese Edition of My Life as a Quant” I first visited Tokyo in 1990, when I worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co.…
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