Writer and Professor Emeritus of Financial Engineering at Columbia University
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Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian
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Models Behaving Badly
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The Volatility Smile
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My Life as a Quant
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Why Is This Interesting? – The Tetragrammaton Edition
A single name–Bjork or Madonna–is grand. A single name with its own name is even grander.
Emanuel Derman on X
Late Fame film review — Willem Dafoe excels as a forgotten poet reluctantly rediscovered
"Gloria (Greta Lee, excellent) is a human dash of Tabasco — the kind of person the movie suggests could only exist in New York, even now."
via @ft
Late Fame film review — Willem Dafoe excels as a forgotten poet reluctantly rediscovered
An ageing New Yorker is drawn into a group of aspiring young writers in a drama boosted by a piquant performance from Greta Lee
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“Some people - and I am one of them - hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically”- Pnin
Nabokov writes “hullo” rather than “hello” which I approve of and is very rare here.
The Prisencolinensinainciusol Edition -- REALLY GREAT https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-prisencolinensinainciusol-edition-fb2?r=2fez&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
"Everyone knows beauty, money, status, and popularity affect erotic success; the incel turns these tendencies into an iron system of ranks and laws."
by @lionel_trolling
The Incelization of the Lifeworld
A Bad Infinity
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