“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.…
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CHAPTER 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 ‘is stronger than‘ or ‘can wipe out‘ or ‘dominates‘. Pain > Pleasure Physical pain > Psychic pain Psychic 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 went to see John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection, which really was a movie about what it’s like to be transcendently in 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 closed… is the recitation of sins and the asking for forgiveness. You don’t have to even be religious or a believer to appreciate it. I…
Comments closedIdeal money is a security that has no dimension. Ideal money is atomic, structureless, has no extension but has infinite duration. Ideal money has zero…
Comments closedOne of the most useful things a person can know about himself is where he or she begins and where other people end. If you…
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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 closedMany behavioral economists want to correct people’s supposedly irrational behavior by teaching them statistics and arithmetic. But the world of human behavior has more than…
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…
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