January 24, 2011
Executive summary: Extremely useful for new users, informative to even quite seasoned users. Refereeing Once upon a time a publisher asked if I would referee a book (unspecified) about [...]
December 30, 2010
The blog year started in August and consists of 30-something posts. Here is a summary. Most popular Ideas for World Statistics Day A quant review of "The Quants" by [...]
December 13, 2010
A friend recently bought The R Book and I said I would tell him of problems that I've noticed with it. You can eavesdrop. Page 4 The word "library" [...]
November 18, 2010
How could a book about indirectly solving problems and one about human motivation be saying the same thing? Obliquity Chapter 1 (and more) is about happiness. We've been here [...]
October 5, 2010
Finally, an operator's manual for the human brain. You should read this book, but in the meantime I'll summarize the rules over which you have some control: exercise don't [...]
September 23, 2010
Your happiness probably lies outside this book. Fund management If you think this topic remote from fund management, I think you're wrong. Suppose that we deliver a lot of [...]
August 30, 2010
There were giant mutant quants destroying every ... Oh, sorry. That was ants not quants, and it was a Japanese movie not a book. Given my blog's remit, it [...]