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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…
Comments closedYou love a while and when love goesYou try to hide the tears inside with a cheerful pose.But in the hush of night exactly like…
Comments closedThis 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…
Comments closedAgeism 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…
Comments closedThis 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…
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 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…
Comments closedMother Goddam’s bar in Mandelay Seven planks over the greenish bay Goddam, what kind of establishment that was! Fifteen men waiting for their turn The…
Comments closedIt was many decades ago that I discovered Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenye. I had known, of course, about Bobby Darin’s Mack the Knife, but…
Comments closedI have written about this topic more than ten years ago, but today I was reminded again of the immense difference between knowing what to…
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 closedBy the symbol ‘>’ I mean ‘dominates‘. Pain > Pleasure Physical pain > Psychic pain Psychic pleasure > Physical pleasure
Comments closedI have heard people claim that a machine learning program could have figured out, as Newton did, the force relation between two masses and the…
Comments closedI once wrote a long chapter in my book Models.Behaving.Badly about Spinoza’s theory of the passions (affects) and how to free oneself of bondage to…
Comments closedVideo of Lecture on Models Behaving Badly at The Institute of Physics, London, 2013
Comments closedFrom the New York Times Style Section, Sep 1, 2030 Posted At : September 5, 2010 7:29 PM | Posted By : Emanuel Derman …Despite…
Comments closedA brief lecture given at the BBQ, the Bloomberg Quant Seminar Scientific_Approach_to_Finance
Comments closedEven when I was a child, as soon as they saw that I liked the smell of petrol at the pump in my father?s garage,…
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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…
Comments closedIn Hong Kong the other day I saw an exhibition of photographs taken by Sebastian Salgado. Some of them were photographs of
Comments closedIncredibly clever lyrics by Gershwin in this great
Comments closedThe late flight I boarded for Europe took off precisely on time. I sent one last email before they closed the airplane doors and commanded…
Comments closedIn the beginning, no Inside or Outside. When other things materialize, call them things. Things penetrate your boundary. Every thing is Inside or Outside. You cannot be…
Comments closedMach’s principle says that the mass of the particle knows something about the fixed stars far away, and that angular motion relative to the fixed…
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About ten years ago, after living in New York for three decades, I took a short vacation at Kvikne?s Hotel in Balestrand, right on the…
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