I finally got around to reading Risk Management in the New York Times Magazine. It is one of the best articles on Wall Street Modeling Risk How people game models How all models eventually fail that I have ever read. It is must reading. All risk management systems, all (complex) models for that matter, are [...]
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A great article on modeling risk
by Nick Gall | January 28, 2009 | 2 Comments
Is ‘Wireless’ Anemic or Merely Retrospective?
by Nick Gall | October 17, 2008 | 15 Comments
In a recent post, Dave McCoy discusses what he calls anemic words and how "[d]efinitional context [entailed by such words] will constrain your imagination." I suppose whether or not to hark back to a word’s roots or context is a matter of taste. I personally love studying etymology — the history of words. And I [...]
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