I-banking bubble

Like all the bubbles that eventually become unsustainable and burst, I-banking as a profession has also become a bubble. As they say, when everyone recommends buying a stock, one can be pretty certain that the stock is going to tank. Similarly when everyone thinks the best and most sought after job is being I-banker, it is likely that it is going to suck/ disappear soon. A whole host of people have lined up to become i-bankers in the recent decade.

Beautiful People

CNBC’s Anuradha SenGupta seeks clarification from Sadhguru [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63BIHbU0O3s?rel=0]

Books read in 2011

Tabulated the list of books read in 2011, for quick reference. # Title Summary 1 Linear Algebra Done Right Summary 2 In Code Summary 3 Numerical Linear Algebra Summary 4 The Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class Summary 5 Lebesgue Measure and Integration Summary

The Art of R Programming : Summary

This book is written by Normal Matloff , a professor who has worked both in the Computer science department and Statistics department at UCLA. Hence this book is markedly different from the books that are available on R. You get a nice blend of views about R. Also the author clearly states in his preface that this book is essentially a book for those “who want to develop software in R”.