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Slow Time Machine with Time Capsule – SOLVED!
Do you suffer from painfully slow Time Machine performance with your brand new Time Capsule? Here is how you solve it. Continue reading
Are You an Introvert?
Take a quiz to see if you are an introvert or an extrovert – a techie or a manager. Continue reading
Posted in Science, Topical, Work and Life
Tagged introvert, life, quiet, Susan Cain, work life balance
Was Yours, Now Mine
This article is a follow-up to my last post on what was troubling my conscience. This is also a rant on the modern capitalism of the corporate era, where we have all become tiny cogs in a giant wheel inexorably rolling on to nowhere in particular, but obliterating much in the process. Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Life, Philosophy, Work and Life
Tagged capitalism, Corporate Life, money, work life balance
Troubled Conscience
Do you feel troubled and responsible for things over which you have no control? If you do, this post may help you get by. Then again, it may make it worse… Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Life, Environment, Work and Life
Tagged Mohamed El-Erian, money, pimco, troubled conscience
The Student Debt Crisis
This is a guest post by Sofia Rasmussen exploring the ramifications of student loan burdens. Continue reading
Ethics In Business and Leadership
Prof. Surya Sethi gave this speech at the World Forum for Ethics in Business – International Leadership Symposium
Monday, April 2, 2012 in Singapore. Passionate and eloquent, this speech details some of the shocking truths about the world we live in. A learned expose on the many topics I have tried to bring to my readers, this speech is reproduced on the Unreal Blog with the kind permission of the speaker. Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Life, Environment, Work and Life
Tagged Corporate Life, environment, ethics
Subprime: When Good Intentions Turned Sour
Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on Google+ Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend As the world … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance, Work and Life
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
Your Virtual Thumbdrive
How to use online storage as your virtual thumbdrive and more.
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