Money and Finance
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[H/T Open Culture]
- Peter Bernstein Quote
From FACING THE CONSEQUENCES:Risk is about how we make decisions, and only incidentally about the math that we employ to reach those decisions. Knowing how it works is just the beginning. Knowing how to use these tools is the introduction to wisdom. And...
- Why Some Physicists Bet Against The Higgs Boson - By Robert Wright
After Stephen Hawking conceded that he'd lost his bet about the Higgs boson, I wondered why he had been on the wrong side of the bet. Why had he doubted the existence of a particle widely assumed to be an essential constituent of physical reality?...
- Hussman Weekly Market Comment: Corporate "cash" - Cheering The Asset And Ignoring The Liability
Just a note - if there is one weekly comment that I hope that regular readers of these comments will not miss, it is last week's piece - Valuing the S&P 500 Using Forward Operating Earnings. Economic risks and credit strains will come and go,...
- The Bernanke Put: Creating Tetrodoxin Investors - By Cliff W. Draughn
In the realm of academic sciences there sits at the top of the food chain the world of physics. The world according to Galileo, Pascal, and Newton can be quantified and the laws governing cause and effect put forth in intricate formulas and mathematical...
- Known And Unknown Unknowns
The world’s largest machine is about to open for business. It will, however, only scratch the surface of the universe-WELL, it is about to happen. After more than a decade, SFr10 billion ($10 billion) and a lot of nail-biting, the first protons should...
Money and Finance
BBC Documentary: Beautiful Equations
Artist and writer Matt Collings takes the plunge into an alien world of equations. He asks top scientists to help him understand five of the most famous equations in science, talks to Stephen Hawking about his equation for black holes and comes face to face with a particle of anti-matter.
Along the way he discovers why Newton was right about those falling apples and how to make sense of E=mc2. As he gets to grips with these equations he wonders whether the concept of artistic beauty has any relevance to the world of physics.
Link
[H/T Open Culture]
- Peter Bernstein Quote
From FACING THE CONSEQUENCES:Risk is about how we make decisions, and only incidentally about the math that we employ to reach those decisions. Knowing how it works is just the beginning. Knowing how to use these tools is the introduction to wisdom. And...
- Why Some Physicists Bet Against The Higgs Boson - By Robert Wright
After Stephen Hawking conceded that he'd lost his bet about the Higgs boson, I wondered why he had been on the wrong side of the bet. Why had he doubted the existence of a particle widely assumed to be an essential constituent of physical reality?...
- Hussman Weekly Market Comment: Corporate "cash" - Cheering The Asset And Ignoring The Liability
Just a note - if there is one weekly comment that I hope that regular readers of these comments will not miss, it is last week's piece - Valuing the S&P 500 Using Forward Operating Earnings. Economic risks and credit strains will come and go,...
- The Bernanke Put: Creating Tetrodoxin Investors - By Cliff W. Draughn
In the realm of academic sciences there sits at the top of the food chain the world of physics. The world according to Galileo, Pascal, and Newton can be quantified and the laws governing cause and effect put forth in intricate formulas and mathematical...
- Known And Unknown Unknowns
The world’s largest machine is about to open for business. It will, however, only scratch the surface of the universe-WELL, it is about to happen. After more than a decade, SFr10 billion ($10 billion) and a lot of nail-biting, the first protons should...