Trading Platform

What is a trading platform? Why does everybody want it? And how do we get one? Third post in this series on quantitative development. Continue reading

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Agendas

Here is the agenda of these posts. And more than you wanted to know about all sorts of agendas. Continue reading

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Off the Beaten Track

First post in a long series on Principles of Quantitative Development , on how an investment bank works. Continue reading

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Home No More

On the loss of a second parent, and its implications. Continue reading

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Missing Events and Photos in iPhoto?

After migrating to a Mac from a Time Machine backup, do you have missing events in your iPhoto library? Do not panic. Here is how to recover from the situation. Or better still, prevent it from happening.. Continue reading

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Eye Catcher

Of nostalgia and how fading memories can evoke stronger images. Continue reading

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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

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Are You an Introvert?

Take a quiz to see if you are an introvert or an extrovert – a techie or a manager. Continue reading

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Quiet Me

On why I like to be quiet and keep listening to a world that can’t stop talking. It is prelude to an upcoming review of the book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain. Continue reading

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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

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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

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Ridiculous, Annoying and Embarrassing

When our kids turn 13, we turn ridiculous. How do we handle it? Continue reading

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Speak Your Language

A small anecdote to illustrate why one should stick to one’s language when arguing. Continue reading

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Everything and Nothing

If somebody asks you what you are, here is one way to answer. Continue reading

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The Student Debt Crisis

This is a guest post by Sofia Rasmussen exploring the ramifications of student loan burdens. Continue reading

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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

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Accents

Poems and chicken — filtered through foreign accents Continue reading

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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

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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

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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.

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