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M2: Macro and micro environmental analysis – Summary
The trading arena can be split into three different environments: 1. Macro environment 2. Micro environment 3. Internal environment Moore’s Law: Describes advances in the speed of di… more →
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Drawing a natural number at random, foundations of probability, determinism, Laplace (4)
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wrote 1 week ago: (OK, enough apologized for all my shortcomings. From now on mostly math and philosophical thoughts o … more →
This and that from re Thai r ment by 3T. September 18, 2010
wrote 2 weeks ago: Today’s quote: “Pluck your magic twanger Froggy.” Smilin’ Ed McConnell. Smil … more →
F is for Fractal
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wrote 1 month ago: Medieval grammarians were obsessed with etymology because (according to a recent review in the Londo … more →
Clicks in search
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wrote 1 month ago: Have you heard of the Pareto principle? The idea that 80% of sales come from 20% of customers, or th … more →
Something about elephants...
wrote 2 months ago: So there’s this: The elephant, a huge package of food that is easy to hunt, disappeared from t … more →
Good Enough?
wrote 3 months ago: To earn an undergraduate degree, a student must complete a specific number of credit hours at or abo … more →
power laws, or not
wrote 3 months ago: Michael Stumpf and Mason Porter just published a column in Science entitled Critical truths about po … more →
Hebrew Language and Zipf's Law and--Gawd I'm Exhausted.
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wrote 4 months ago: I feel like a giant aleph is sitting on my chest. This isn’t a good thing, mind you. I’v … more →
Paul. Paul Krugman
wrote 10 months ago: Book cover from Economics Nobel prize (2008), Paul Krugman (link): Paul R. Krugman, “The Self- … more →
Lexical Frequency Profiles and Zipf's Law
wrote 1 year ago: Laufer and Nation (1995) proposed that the Lexical Frequency Profile (LFP) can estimate the size of … more →
Money-making mechanics in social games
wrote 2 years ago: The most popular social games on Facebook and other social networks are free to play. So… wh … more →
The Average iPhone App
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wrote 2 years ago: I had a thought today after reviewing on iTunes Connect the amount of downloads our apps have produc … more →
Lesson on How Markets Work
wrote 2 years ago: It’s not a wizard behind a curtain, there is no central planner to blame, it is the pure natur … more →
Generality of power law distributions
wrote 2 years ago: Terry Tao has posted an intriguing discussion of Benford’s law, Zipf’s law and the Paret … more →
Rules of Thumb
wrote 2 years ago: Vilfredo Pareto Devoted readers will remember that we’ve discussed both Zipf’s Law and B … more →
Benford's law, Zipf's law, and the Pareto distribution
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wrote 2 years ago: A remarkable phenomenon in probability theory is that of universality – that many seemingly un … more →
Milk as Karma
wrote 3 years ago: Someone called someone milk Milk as noun or milk as verb? Milk as the subject or milk as the object? … more →
Math in the Media
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wrote 3 years ago: "Split a pizza?" A few days ago Steven Strogatz, an applied mathematician at Cornell Unive … more →
Math and the City
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wrote 3 years ago: On the NYTimes today is a fascinating piece by Steven Strogatz, who discusses the relative efficienc … more →
