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I’m a big fan of Emanuel Derman’s work, his book and, most recently, his blog. In his latest post, Derman shows his lighter side with an entry in a contest for “plithy personal ads”:
“FANNIE MAE with troubled assets, bored with Freddie Mac, seeks well-regulated stimulus package from counterparty too big to fail. No cash for clunkers.”
His submission won an Honorable Mention.
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I can’t stop watching this. A guy chooses the worst possible moment for a stock market webinar. He loses his mind around 1:10; by 2:35 he’s talking like a robot. We call this a capitulation!
Every time he says “this is what happens,” I think of Walter’s rant in The Big Lebowski (which I will not post for the benefit of TGR’s younger audience).
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Very amusing… and true:
I especially love “The HDR Hole.” Presumably the y-axis is measured in percent of personal potential… there must be all sorts of Bayesian self-reflection stuff going on there.
(Via DataViz)
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The always-excellent How I Met Your Mother addresses a major social problem:
(via FlowingData)
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Wikipedia is an incredible resource, but every now and then it gives me pause. Consider the first two sentences about the seventh-inning stretch:
The seventh-inning stretch is a tradition in baseball that takes place between the halves of the seventh inning of any game. Fans generally stand up and stretch out their arms, legs, necks, backs, calves, fingers, elbows, and other muscles and sometimes walk around.
Is the whole list really necessary?
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Who knew the little guy was so prolific? A very funny read in today’s NYT:
As we head into the second hundred days of my administration, I feel more pride and pleasure than ever at the prospect of serving the American people and finding ways to make this nation, and this planet, a better place for our children and our children’s children. I am speaking metaphorically here, of course, as I am neutered.
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I really love xkcd. There’s something encouraging about a webcomic focused on math and computer science that is nonetheless so funny and accessible that tens of millions of people read it every month. And every now and then it errs strongly on the obscure side, as exemplified by this recent comic that sent me off researching Paul Erdos in order to get the joke.
I learned that Paul Erdos was an extremely eccentric Hungarian mathematician who holds the distinction of authoring more papers than anyone else. And apparantly I’m not the only one, as “Paul Erdos” was Google’s #1 hot trend last Thursday, when comic was published.
Incidentally, the punch line is here. Caution – this is nerd humor in rare form. Well, this and yesterday’s post, which I’m off to watch again.
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