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When used in a hospital setting, can Spinoza be sterilized?
Ha ha, luckily they are only talking about a cuddly bear robot for sick kids. This is what you get when you google “Spinoza”. But we go straight from entries for Wikipedia and philosophic encyclopediae...
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Quants are weird
Came upon the most delightfully batshit website, that of Dr Espen Haug, Dolph Lundgren impersonator the co-author with Taleb of the assault on Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing I linked to in my...
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What the Quants did next
Hey Bento, remember these guys? Interesting article here on the “new realms of science” the Quants are apparently pushing into in order to make a fast buck in stocks without looking at balance sheets...
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Peer pressure
One of the many psychological problems Baruch suffers from (in secret) is a desperate need for the respect of his peers. So when on his daily Abnormal Returns troll he saw a link to a Who’s Who of...
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Abnormal Makeover
We don’t really do blogroll around here, but Abnormal Returns is a bit special, and is basically the portal by which one navigates the econo-blogosphere. The previously anonymous Tadas Viskanta has...
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What’s an export? Seriously.
Baruch the amateur economist has been mulling this question for a while now, and still doesn’t know. Baruch was reading this World Bank blogpost (via Paul Kedrosky)* discussing how much we can rely on...
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All about Android
Baruch is channelling Tadas Viskanta today. It’s a linkfest! More and more datapoints are pointing in favour of his “phase transition” thesis, that the smartphone market, as it gets more software-y,...
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Econobloggers need their crisis back
I think so, dear readers. With the advent of peace and plenty, as we move to the broad sunlit uplands of The Recovery, I fear some of the spice has gone out of the commentary on sites like this one,...
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Don’t call it a comeback. . . well, actually
Drum roll. . . Baruch is back!! Yes, he has been out of commission these past few years. You may have been annoyed by his lack of any farewell, or any information as to what he was doing or why he had...
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Don’t Panic
OK, so the other week everyone who was anyone was banging on about the AlphaGo programme from The Google’s DeepMind that can, so far, beat humans at Go. Baruch’s understanding is that this was a...
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