Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Great but turns into a feminist moan 'Computing is short of female heroines'
{http://www.intelligentlifemagazine.com/intelligence/cracking-coder}

Gwynne Dyer: Why Turkey wanted to shoot down a Russian plane

{http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11552345}



Wednesday, 18 November 2015

Thursday, 12 November 2015

edit and repeat...
One of the extraordinary accomplishments of the algorithmic trading programs in the beginning of the 21st century was that it managed to take financial markets that were inherently profound and render them trivial.


World energy watchdog fears 1970s oil crunch as Mid-East regains stranglehold
{https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=805465690489140608#editor/target=post;postID=6897291774103427179}

Monday, 9 November 2015

Bitcoin , MMM and the pyramid carson grain storing scheme.
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/11/09/2144388/im-no-crook-declares-mmm-scamster-while-claiming-credit-for-the-bitcoin-price-spike/}
&
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/11/bully-for-ben-carson.html}


Italy’s negative bond yields speaks volumes about Europe’s economy
{http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1875879/italys-negative-bond-yields-speaks-volumes-about-europes}
"In November 2011, Italy’s 2-year yield stood at a crippling 7 percent"
"Last week, Italy, a country with the second-highest public debt burden in Europe after Greece, sold 2-year bonds at a negative yield for the first time."

Tuesday, 27 October 2015

Howard on Sports and minimalising error

Chess attacks
{http://boingboing.net/2015/10/26/how-to-play-chess-like-an-assh.html}

‘The Old Man and the Sea’ Resonates Both with Political Dissidents and Xi Jinping
http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/caixin-media/hemingways-literary-escape


The Old Man and the Sea is at heart a hymn to perseverance, endurance, faith, and resourcefulness.

and some poems
{http://100.best-poems.net/top-100-best-poems.html}

Wednesday, 14 October 2015

Periculo ex maChina
The shadow convexity risk in the machine (and the VIX)
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/10/13/2142116/the-shadow-convexity-risk-in-the-machine-and-the-vix/}
 'The Vix, Cole notes, is experiencing epileptic seizures including erratic and violent outbursts up and down at the most frequent pace in history as new sources of structural short convexity interact with interventionist policy responses to crisis.'

= the volatility index has been volitile...perhaps

Wednesday, 23 September 2015