Using Dropbox and shell scripts to automatically sync settings and configurations.
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Using Dropbox and shell scripts to automatically sync settings and configurations.
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Finally making the leap from Textmate to VIM...
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What is the probability that the sum of the digits of the Dow's change would add up to the 26 on three consecutive days?
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A guide to installing Python, virtualenv, NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib and IPython on Mac OS 10.7 Lion
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"Hope" is not an investment strategy.
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An overview of financial risk and the risk management process.
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Assessing the human computer.
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Using R to recreate color-indexed maps of US unemployment data.
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Breaking down Senator Dodd's financial reform bill.
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Visualizing the view from the top of the Burj Dubai - if it were located in NYC.
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Calculating the probability of the Bulgarian lottery drawing the exact same numbers in consecutive weeks.
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The intuition behind copula models: dependence, correlation, single factors and more.
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An aside on static recovery assumptions in CDO pricing.
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A math-free introduction to CDO pricing.
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Ball marks on a squash court form an interesting scatterplot.
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A number of misconceptions about the Gaussian copula are addressed.
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Google search data reveals an (un)surprising truth about Christmas dinners.
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An explanation of Benford's law, which describes how frequently certain first digits should appear.
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An author describes a lose-lose strategy.
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Floating rate notes (FRN's) can exhibit a curious property called negative duration.
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A casual overview of how color images may be converted to grayscale.
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Explaining the Monty Hall problem.
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An introduction to high dynamic range photography.
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