There are older kids on our street too. The B___ family – father, mother two teenage boys — live on the farther arm of Woodburn…
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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…
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 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 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 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 closedFinancial Heists – article in The Guardian
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 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 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
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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 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 closedRecollections concerning first experiences of human death: 1. I am between one and two years old. A closed to door to a darkened room. I…
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…
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