Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street
Shut Up And Keep It To Yourself
Think that blabbing about your goals all over social media makes you more likely to fulfil them then think again. When Intentions Go Public from Trading Game Pty Ltd
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A British app founded by three Cambridge graduates that predicts the next word you want to write using artificial intelligence has been bought by Microsoft for £174 million – but one of the three missed out after selling his stake for a bicycle. Chris Hill-Scott, who set the company up with Jon Reynolds and Ben Medlock in…
How the Beatles’ ‘Revolver’ Gave Brian Wilson a Nervous Breakdown
When Brian Wilson first heard the Beatles’ 1965 album Rubber Soul, he was so astonished by the album that the next morning, he went straight to his piano and started writing “God Only Knows” with his songwriting partner Tony Asher. Wilson knew that Rubber Soul — an album that contained the most mature songwriting from John Lennon,…
Noise Versus Information Versus Decision Making
One of the growing problems I have noticed over the years with trading is the increasing amount of data that is available to traders. In the good old days we had the reverse problem, getting any information was difficult. Even finding out the closing prices in the US could be tortuous. The internet has completely…
Send Me Another Expert
Now that the jingoistic gush fest that is the Olympics is over we can all recover from the notion that every Australian athlete who actually performed up to expectations was a genius and that those that failed to do so still had a big future in front of them (most likely in hospitality) we can…
The Monty Hall Problem
Imagine that you’re on a television game show and the host presents you with three closed doors. Behind one of them, sits a sparkling, brand-new Lincoln Continental; behind the other two, are smelly old goats. The host implores you to pick a door, and you select door #1. Then, the host, who is well-aware of…
Is 2016 the Worst Year in History?
If you listened to the breathless and somewhat hysterical local media then you would think it is but then you would be wrong…… When news of the truck killings in Nice, France, broke last week, I started seeing variations of the same sentiment on Twitter and Facebook: Is this the worst year ever, or what?…
Who Is the Tallest Dwarf?
I noticed during the Olympics that an industry superannuation fund known as REST were trying to convince me how good they are. The catch cry of the ad is that investing is a marathon and not a sprint – you wont get any argument here on that point. Too many people believe that investing irrespective of…
Is “Grit” Really the Key to Success?
In the summer of 2004, Angela Duckworth, then a graduate student in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, went up to West Point to study 1,200 new cadets. The first-years were about to start “Beast Barracks,” an infamous seven-week training program during which they’d toil in the classroom and on the field for 17 hours…
GARAGE MARTIAL ARTS
Some people look down on garage training. They think a “real” martial arts school should have a well-equipped dojo with heavy bags hanging from the ceiling, weapons on the walls, and thick mats on the floor. That’s all good. But no one should ever look down on garage training, and no student should be embarrassed…
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