My missed opportunity with random portfolios

January 16, 2013

The Observer tells of a ginger tabby named Orlando who selected a random portfolio that won an investment contest.  Meanwhile I have a gray tabby here on the desk doing nothing.  All that effort to write software to generate random portfolios efficiently when I could have been using cat power instead.

Not a single random portfolio out of Alfred Lord T (so far) imm008

Hat tip: Dirk @eddelbuettel

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