Marlow’s Listener

I was taken aback

Puff. Not a bubble, but a smoke ring.

The root of the problem is that humans weren’t meant to work in such large groups.

Seeks a measure of order in physical, mathematical or social phenomena that are characterized by abundant data but extreme sample variability

Continuing the thread from December 7, 2008, I return to the question of “now where?” Last time, a linear regression of the Case-Shiller Housing Price Index for the Los Angeles area had the seeming good news that the drops had brought the curve back to trend. Good news, right? Consider however, that linear regression is [...]

Here was a man whose subjects had included the artistic deities of the 20th century–Picasso, Stravinsky, the Beatles, Chaplin, Warhol, Auden, Bacon, Nureyev, Dylan.

collection of frequently used commands or code snippets.

Credit Suisse Group AG’s investment bank has found a new way to reduce the risk of losses from about $5 billion of its most illiquid loans and bonds: using them to pay employees’ year-end bonuses.

He’s the sort of deity who rules with terrible power and speaks with a voice of thunderclouds. His sadness is deep, perhaps because he knows he will never be comfortable or comforting. This Nixon emerges bruised by these televised exchanges, yet no one wins or loses.