Tuesday, December 26, 2006

More Caltech bragging rights: patents and PhDs

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Guess which university completely dominates all others in patents issued, when normalized to the size of institution? My graduating class wa...
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Sunday, December 24, 2006

On the benevolence of financiers

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An interesting comment on a previous post : [Me:] "I guess the other thing to add is that not all financial games that make money for a...
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Saturday, December 23, 2006

Frank Gehry: the lion in winter

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A poignant interview with architect Frank Gehry. You might imagine him as an egocentric genius, but instead he comes across as a thoughtful ...
Friday, December 22, 2006

In defense of hedge funds

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The article below gives a well-reasoned defense of hedge funds. The money line is, for me, the following: As any newspaper reader knows, tec...
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Monday, December 18, 2006

Machine Dreams

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We're on break right now, so I have time to do some deeper reading. I'd like to recommend the book Machine Dreams by the economist ...

Indexing for Googlers

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How the Googlers prepared their new millionaires for the investment world: mass education on the merits of indexing. SF Magazine : As Googl...
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Saturday, December 16, 2006

Climate change: the straight dope

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From an email exchange with a colleague who has spent significant time studying climate change: > What is your confidence level in the fo...
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Friday, December 15, 2006

The speed of finance

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The speed of light is not fast enough if you're in the business of vacuuming up micropennies (keeping bid ask spreads tight) using an au...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Big, complicated data sets

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This Times article profiles Nick Patterson, a mathematician whose career wandered from cryptography, to finance (7 years at Renaissance) an...
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Monday, December 11, 2006

Digging through the rubble at Amaranth

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Via Brad DeLong , this detailed Bloomberg article on the demise of Amaranth. One intriguing part of the story, discussed before at DealBrea...
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Thursday, December 07, 2006

How green is my valley

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The 85% hydro and wind figure is news to me, and I live here! Eugene beat out Austin, TX and Portland, OR for top honors. As ranked by the G...
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Independent evidence for dark energy

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New paper! We describe observational evidence for dark energy which is independent of the supernova surveys, and therefore not subject to sy...
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Rolling the dice

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Bloomberg has a nice profile of former PayPal CEO and now hedge fund manager Peter Thiel. This guy is a born risk taker. Be prepared for a ...
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Saturday, December 02, 2006

Higher Ed in India

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I'm very familiar with the excellent scientists and engineers produced by the IIT's (Indian Institutes of Technology). I know much l...
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Keynes and Planck

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Found in the comments on Economist's View : Professor Planck, of Berlin, the famous originator of the Quantum Theory, once remarked to...
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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Shanghai from an Indian perspective

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Indian software engineer Nimbupani writes about his experience as an expat living in Shanghai. He provides some comparative insight on Indi...
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Virtual millionaires

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Congratulations to Anshe Chung (in real life: Ailin Graef, a German citizen originally from Hubei, China), the first capitalist whose virtua...
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Sunday, November 26, 2006

QuantLogic

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Two worthwhile observations from the blog QuantLogic . 1) A quote from Charles Munger: I have said that in my whole life, I've known no ...
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A reallocation of human capital

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Another article on the theme of rich vs super-rich in the NYTimes. The article profiles an MD and a PhD in economics, each of whom left the...