Structure of a Bank
A short introduction to the static structure of an investment bank. We will have much more to say about it later on.
Books, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance
Books
Book reviews of the Unreal kind. Here, I discuss the books I have read, and share my impressions with my readers. I read mostly non-fiction or classics. And when I say read books, I mean listen to them in audiobook (always unabridged) form. Audiobooks have the ability to make your commute or gym workout something you look forward to, rather than dread. When reviewed, they present a disadvantage though, that they cannot be referred to. Thus quotes from them become paraphrasing, names get misspelled and so on. Please excuse such shortcomings…
Note that these are not real reviews. Most of these books are so well-known that they are really beyond reviews. So my Unreal reviews are more like my impressions and thoughts, often containing spoilers.
Books, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance
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.
Books, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance
Agendas
Here is the agenda of these posts. And more than you wanted to know about all sorts of agendas.
Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance, Books
Off the Beaten Track
First post in a long series on Principles of Quantitative Development , on how an investment bank works.
Work and Life, Books, Corporate Life
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.
The Unreal Universe
I recently made my first book available on Amazon. I thought I would post this article, which is a good summary of the book. This article was published in a magazine in Singapore.
Books, Philosophy, Physics, Science
On Rationality and Delusions
What do we mean by rationality? Why do we think it is a good thing to be rational?
Books, Quantitative Finance
Principles of Quantitative Development
A review of my forthcoming book, “Principles of Quantitative Development,” to be published by John Wiley & Sons in Feb 2010. This review is written by Shayne Fletcher, Executive Director, Nomura, and author of “Financial Modelling in Python,” reproduced here with permission.
Books, Philosophy, Physics, Science
Blind-Sight
Blind-sight is an interesting neurological syndrome, and a philosophical conundrum. It shows how we may have senses that we are not consciously aware of. If there are senses that we can be unaware of, how sure can we be of the “sensed”? Or of our “delusions”?
Books, Philosophy, Physics, Science
A Plausible God
Here is a concept of God that doesn’t violate the known principles of science, and should therefore be consistent with the so-called scientific worldview. Mind you, plausibility of the concept says nothing about its veracity; but it may say something about it being a delusion.
Philosophy, Science, Creative, Books
The God Delusion
An unreal review of the book The God Delusion. […]The book gave me a strange feeling of dissatisfaction. You see, you may believe in God. Or you may not believe that there is a God. Or you may actively believe that there is no God. I fall in this the last category. But I still know that it is only my belief, and that thought fills me with a humility that I feel Dawkins lacks.[…]
Helen Keller
The story of Helen Keller is the story of the dark reality that traps you in the absence of your senses. It is also an illustration of the role of language in breaking out of that darkness.