Month: March 2009

House Hearing on Hedge Funds

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/house-oversight-cmte-hearing-on-turmoil-in-the-financial-markets/1389143189/?icid=VIDLRVGOV04The politicians love their ambiguously applicable metaphors.

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Information Theory Betting

The following is a very interesting problem copied from p.132 of "Elements…

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Back from TDWI

Last week I attended TDWI in Las Vegas. Normally, by talking to…

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Alternative Dashboards?

After a previous post on early cardboard dashboards, I was offered some…

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Skype Answering Machine

Using Skype to cut down on office telecom bills and using it…

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Applied Finance with R

Here’s a nice conference you may wanna go if Chicago isnt too…

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Highlights from Berkshire Hathaway’s 2008 Letter to Shareholders

Berkshire Hathaway released Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders on Friday (Feb…

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The Dirichlet Process Part 3: Dirichlet Process

Click on the text to see it full size (I had to…

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Learning SPSS for SAS users

I wrote a post on learning SAS for SPSS users based on…

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