How Much is Your Time Worth?
Time and money represent the basic conflict of work-life balance. Here is an unreal look at the old problem.
Work and Life, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance
Topical
Includes posts on physics, philosophy, sciences, quantitative finance, economics, environment etc.
Environment, Work and Life
Little Materialists
Do you think kids are more materialistic these days? I think so. And I think I know why.
Blank Screen after Hibernate or Sleep?
Have a problem of your laptop or PC staying blank after waking up from hibernation or the sleep mode? Here is how to fix it.
The Wilmott Magazine, Quantitative Finance
A New Kind of Binomial Tree
How does a binomial tree pricing model look in a functional language? The last excerpt from my next column for the Wilmott Magazine (May 2009 iessu), this post may be a bit technical for those who are not practitioners in the field of quantitative finance.
The Wilmott Magazine, Quantitative Finance
Functional Programming
Another excerpt from my next column in a quantitative finance magazine, here is an explanation of why functional language looks interesting to a mathematician.
The Wilmott Magazine, Quantitative Finance
Magic of Object Oriented Languages
Another excerpt from my next column in the Wilmott magazine to appear in May 2009, this post takes a high level look at object oriented languages and introduces the concept of functional programming. The next two posts in this series may get a bit technical.
The Wilmott Magazine, Quantitative Finance
Paradigms All the Way
The power of paradigms in computing, and how it aids in the seemingly endless march of the Moore’s Law. An excerpt from my next column in the Wilmott magazine to appear in May 2009.
The Wilmott Magazine, Quantitative Finance
Zeros and Ones
Ever marvel at the ability of computers to obey your wishes, while completely screwing up what you really wanted to do? Here is an insight into this computer mind, from a quantitative finance professional’s point of view. From my next column to appear in the Wilmott Magazine. This post is the first of a short series of posts on this subject.
Quotes, Philosophy, Physics, Science, Creative
Change the Facts
Of truth and beauty — in physics and philosophy
Topical, Work and Life, Life and Death, Philosophy
Of Dreams and Memories
What does it mean to say that something happened if you cannot remember it?
How to save a string to a local file in PHP?
This post is for those of you who write plugins for WordPress. If you are not geeky enough to do that, you can safely ignore this post. Other PHP web programmers find it useful as well, if you have trouble saving a string to a file on your client’s computer without creating intermediate files at your server.
Philosophy, Creative, Books, Life and Death
The Razor’s Edge by W Somerset Maugham
This brief look at possibly the best book I have ever read is perhaps my last post in the book review series. At least for a short while, as I’m beginning to find it a bit hard to keep up with all the demands on my time now, what with my next book efforts and everything. Besides, the books have already said it all better, haven’t they?