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
There is no individual thing in nature, which is more useful to man, than a man who lives in obedience to reason. -- Spinoza, The Ethics
A chatbot MAMLM looks in its training data for a conversation like the one it is currently having
By @delong https://open.substack.com/pub/braddelong/p/please-enough-with-the-claims-that?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
@mbateman decades ago when i gave walks and workshops with kids (k-4) at the ny botanical garden, one day i decided to try a 10 minute silent walk in the woods, told them we'll be silent, listen and then at 10 minutes talk about what we heard. at 10 minutes... they wanted to keep silent
Why are some people emailing me through mailchimp?
I’m perfectly accessible without it.