Ahmed Wahidi is an Afghani goatherd with three wives, Aafifa, Latifa and Fatima. They live high in the Hindu Kush. David Burton is a computer…
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Late in life, when his roots should have held him steady, he became unmoored, and it seemed inappropriate. But who determined what was appropriate?
Comments closedThe good days are here once again for models of the physical world: after a drought of almost fifty years, physicists at CERN have discovered what seems to be the long-awaited Higgs boson
Comments closedI am visiting the Santa Fe Institute, where everyone who?s anyone is interested in applying the quantitative methods of physics to complex phenomena that aren?t…
Comments closedWhen I came to write my memoir, the perception of having been a second-class citizen in the early days of quantitative strategies led me to think of the movie My Life as a Dog, and modify Dog to Quant for the title. The subtext was meant to be dogs.
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Comments closedWhat follows are some remarks I intend to make on Friday Oct 21 2011 at a panel on global risk organized by GARP and the Federal…
Comments closedThe sun?s gravity pulls at all parts of the planet, and the bits of earth closer to the sun get pulled harder than the bits…
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Comments closed1. In this country politicians use polls to try to figure out what people want, and then offer it to them in order to get…
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Comments closedHaving been a scientist, one of my major pet peeves is the na?ve use of science. Let me give you several examples. The influential biologist…
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