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
Anachronism Watch: in the first 10 minutes of Marty Supreme set in 1952 Marty says to someone “it’s not in his DNA “
Nobody said that in 1952. The structure wasn’t even known until 1953 although they knew about the molecule.
The modern version::
Bob: it’s in his DNA
Carol: yes, but epigenetic factors are preventing it from being expressed.
"The miracle is that there is actually so little political violence in relation to the wide availability of the means."
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The Shooting That Wasn't
Reflections on the White House Correspondents Dinner
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Recommend this fascinating review of a book on the history of the original creation of words
Francis Gooding · Rocket Science for Monkeys: Sounds before Words
So far as we know, true symbolic language is unique to the human species. The question of how we alone came to be...
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“I found four voices: André the flighty, off-the-wall rich kid; André the guru; André the spiritual used-car salesman; and the sincere André (who appears briefly at the end of the film).”
This is one of of first three.
