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Bye Bye Einstein
This last post in the series explains why I believe it is time to say goodbye to Einstein, and why I look forward to how our worldview develops in the light of this CERN discovery of material superluminality. Continue reading
Posted in philosophy, physics, Quotes, Science
Tagged Albert Einstein, philosophy, physics, relativity, Richard Feynman, Untitled
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Why not Discard Special Relativity?
This second post in my series on the superluminality observed (or suspected) at CERN looks at why we cannot accept it.
Posted in philosophy, physics, Science
Tagged Albert Einstein, CERN, Maxwells Equations, philosophy, physics, relativity, Richard Feynman
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Faster than Light
When they discovered particles going faster than light at CERN, they didn’t want to believe themselves. They were practically begging the rest of the community to find a mistake in this discovery. Why would they do that? This post and its follow ups will try to shed some light on this strange lack of faith.
Posted in philosophy, physics, Science
Tagged Albert Einstein, Maxwells Equations, philosophy, physics
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How to Avoid Duplicate Imports in iPhoto
I just finished writing my first Mac application because I had a specific problem (duplicate imports of photos into my iPhoto Library) to solve. This problem may be fairly common, so I’m making it available (all right, selling it) to the general public. Here is a summary of what it does and how to get it. Continue reading
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.
Posted in Debates, Quantitative Finance, The Wilmott Magazine
Tagged Debates, money, quantitative finance, wilmott
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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!
Posted in philosophy, physics, Topical
Tagged cognitive neuroscience, life, philosophy, philsophy of mind, physical reality, physics, Pirsig, relativity, space and time
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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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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
Posted in Quantitative Finance, The Wilmott Magazine, Topical
Tagged money, quantitative finance, wilmott
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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, physics
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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.
Posted in Columns, Quantitative Finance, The Wilmott Magazine
Tagged children, Columns, parenting, quantitative finance, wilmott
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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, 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
Posted in Columns, Quantitative Finance, The Wilmott Magazine, Topical
Tagged children, Columns, parenting, quantitative finance, Singaporean, wilmott
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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.
How to be a Good Parent
Practical advice to my younger readers. Continue reading
Posted in Life and Death, philosophy, Work and Life
Tagged children, life, parenting, philosophy
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