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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
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
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
Death — Last Words
The sixth and last post on the philosophy of death looks at the paradox or the absurdity of living at all, given that there is a death looming, and tries to find a sliver lining. Continue reading
Does the World Go on?
The fifth post on the philosophy of death looks at another notion of continuity. Even for those who believe in no soul or god of any kind, the physical world is real and continuous. No sane person would think the world comes to an end with his death. Then again, nobody has accused me of sanity. Continue reading
Primal Soul
What is soul, and why do we need one? Philosophy of death is surely incomplete without a discussion of this matter. Here is the fourth post in this series. Continue reading
From Here to Eternity
The severity of a pain is not merely its intensity, but its duration as well. Given that death puts a definitive end to our worldly durations, how does it affect our notion of punishment commensurate with crime? Here is the third post on the philosophy of death.
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Why Should I Be Good?
This second post on my series on the philosophy of death deals with the connection between morality and death. Continue reading
The Taboo Topic
I thought I would write a short piece on the philosophy death, but it turned out to be a fairly big essay. It was to be expected, I guess, for death is not an easy or simple topic. I will post my thoughts here in parts. The first part looks at the taboo nature of the topic of death. Continue reading
In Our Defense
Here is an article defending (to some extent) the insane salary expectations of the elite bankers and traders. And quants. This piece will appear in my regular column in Wilmott Magazine. Continue reading
Food Prices and Terrible Choices
Economists have too many hands. On the one hand, they may declare something good. On the other hand, they may say, “well, not so much.” Some of them may have even a third or fourth hand. My ex-boss, an economist himself, once remarked that he wished he could chop off some of these hands. [...] Continue reading
Posted in Columns, Life and Death, Quantitative Finance, Unpublished
Tagged crude oil prices, food prices, price surge
Human Virus
A frank, but strange, look at global warming. Are we a virus on the earth? And is the global warming a bout of fever? Published in the Singaporean newspaper, Today, on 1 Dec 2008.
[...] The end result of a viral infection is always gloomy. Either the host succumbs or the virus gets beaten by the host’s immune systems. If we are the virus, both these eventualities are unpalatable. We don’t want to kill the Earth. And we certainly don’t want to be exterminated by the Earth. But those are the only possible outcomes of our viral-like activity here. It is unlikely that we will get exterminated; we are far too sophisticated for that. In all likelihood, we will make our planet uninhabitable. We may, by then, have our technological means of migrating to other planetary systems. In other words, if we are lucky, we may be contagious! [...] Continue reading
Money — Love it or Hate it
This concluding part of the philosophy of money (to appear as a column in the May issue of the Wilmott Magazine) shares my private disappointment that whatever I wrote up may not have been as original as I expected it to be. But the concept of money has been around for a long time now, so I should not dwell on it too much. Continue reading
Posted in Columns, Corporate Life, Humor, Philosophy, Quantitative Finance, The Wilmott Magazine
Tagged Columns, Corporate Life, humor, Philosophy, quantitative finance, wilmott
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