Numberphile: James Simons
James Harris Simons has been described as “the world’s smartest billionaire”, amassing a fortune through the clever use...
How not to be ignorant about the world
How much do you know about the world? Hans Rosling, with his famous charts of global population, health and income data (and an...
Polling Errors and Other Noisy Data Series
Salil Mehta has been writing about polling error, and while I don’t always reach the same conclusions he does, I find his work...
Use Math Words!
This entire post by Sarah Cooper is brilliant: How to Use Math Words to Sound Smart: click for full list Source: Medium
Jim Simons: The Mathematician Who Cracked Wall Street
Jim Simons was a mathematician and cryptographer who realized: the complex math he used to break codes could help explain patterns in the...
Trump’s Voter-Math Challenge
The WSJ looks at the swing state challenges facing the Donald: Source: WSJ
Low Productivity Driven By Less Competition?
I have written about the productivity paradox previously. Perhaps thats why I found this discussion by Torsten Sløk so intriguing. He...
MiB: Emanuel Derman
In our latest Masters in Business podcast, we speak with quant and financial engineer Emanuel Derman. One of the first high-energy...
Investing is Not Gambling (and Vice Versa)
By now you are likely sick of all the chatter about tonight’s astounding $1.5 billion Powerball lottery drawing. I have been quite...