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Accidental Writer
I consider myself an accidental writer. Despite the modest success I enjoyed as a published writer and a columnist, writing is not where my talents lie. I wrote my first book because I thought I had something important to say. … Continue reading
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Risk – Wiley FinCAD Webinar
This post is an edited version of my responses in a Webinar panel-discussion organized by Wiley-Finance and FinCAD. The freely available Webcast is linked in the post, and contains responses from the other participants — Paul Wilmott and Espen Huag. An expanded version of this post may later appear as an article in the Wilmott Magazine.
What is Unreal Blog?
This post is an expanded version of a Web interview regarding my blog. It attempts to answer the question why I blog. And why one should take philosophy seriously. Seriously!
Belle Piece
What do you do when you find yourself a sort of captive audience next to your big boss for a couple of minutes? Be careful about the comments you make as smalltalk!
Luddite Thoughts
Wondering if our so-called progress is actually a blind march toward chaos an anarchy, I present a slightly disorganized line of thought in this short piece.
Posted in Columns, French, Topical, Unpublished
Tagged Columns, French, greed, luddite, unabomber
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English as the Official Language of Europe
Another gem from my email archives…
Risk: Interpretation, Innovation and Implementation
An invite to a Webinar organized by FinCAD and Wiley Global Finance, featuring Paul Wilmott, Epsen Haug and yours faithfully… Continue reading
A Crazy Language
Here is a piece about the weirdness of the English language that I found on the web some twenty years ago. Continue reading
Ioanna’s Aisles
Here is a story about the quirkiness of this eccentric language.
A Parker Pen from Singapore
About a fifty-year old Parker pen that held an important lesson for me.
Posted in Life and Death, Malayalam, Physics, Work and Life
Tagged Kerala, Malayalam, malayalee, Physics
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A Chess Game
About a couple of chess games, and about why somebody’s loss can be as satisfying as your win.
Physics vs. Finance
The last post in this series of Love of Math looks at how math gets used in physics and finance. Or, more precisely, how one has to be careful about the assumptions in modeling stuff, and the pitfalls of (the lack of) error propagation.
Your Virtual Thumbdrive
How to use online storage as your virtual thumbdrive and more.
Math and Patterns
Most kids love patterns. Math is just patterns. So is life. Math, therefore, is merely a formal way of describing life, or at least the patterns we encounter in life. So, where is the difficulty in loving maths? Here is the second post in this series.
Posted in Columns, Quantitative Finance, The Wilmott Magazine, Topical
Tagged children, Columns, parenting, quantitative finance, The Wilmott Magazine, Wilmott
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Hosting Options
Practical advice for budding bloggers and webmasters — what kind of web-hosting is appropriate for you?
Love of Math
This is another short series of posts on love of math — that questionable gift. Recently, I was asked to think about how to make kids love math. Here are my thoughts, as the first of three posts. This article will be published in Wilmott Magazine. Continue reading
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We Are Moving…
Unreal Blog has moved to a new powerful server (and sent out thousands of annoying emails during the process). Here is how it happened.
Cloud Computing
About Dropbox, a cloud computing service that you will find extremely useful — if you work with multiple computers.
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