Writer and Professor Emeritus of Financial Engineering at Columbia University
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Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian
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Models Behaving Badly
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The Volatility Smile
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My Life as a Quant
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Why Is This Interesting? – The Tetragrammaton Edition
A single name–Bjork or Madonna–is grand. A single name with its own name is even grander.
Emanuel Derman on X
“the origins of the human economy — the Anthology Super-Intelligence, the division of cognitive and material labor across space — are not a late development in the story of human evolution. They are among the oldest things we can know about our lineage”
https://open.substack.com/pub/braddelong/p/draft-origins-of-a-human-economy?r=2fez&utm_medium=ios
“ if an artificial system were ever conscious, it would be because of its specific physical constitution, never its syntactic architecture”
This is where “uppercase” and “lowercase” came from. In the early days of printing, capital letters were kept in the upper compartments of the type case, while the smaller letters were placed below for easier access.
I like Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn and went to see this and liked it too. What parents who start out well can’t avoid doing to their children, a downward slide.
Four people sitting in chairs on the stage, talking in turns.
What We Did Before Our Moth Days | Official Site
Get tickets to WHAT WE DID BEFORE OUR MOTH DAYS by Wallace Shawn, directed by André Gregory. Starring Hope Davi...
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