Irrational

This is a classic case of my Irrational behavior. I had been wanting to buy a few books before I left NY. However the price tag for the list of books that I wanted to buy was daunting. I just did not feel like investing that much money, though under normal circumstances (steady pay check), I would have just ordered them with no second thoughts!! However the last time I checked my amazon order list, I seem to have actually ordered pretty much the entire list of books, by splicing it over a period of time.

Jan 19th 2009 - Important day

This post is purely for my own recollection purpose and does not make sense to anybody reading this blog. Then why am I posting it ? I just want to remember this date forever in my life, and always look back and check the realization of the path I am taking. This date will serve as a reminder that I have deliberately chosen a particular path in life, reason being, I strongly believe that _Life is a non-stationary stochastic process (Markov, may be).

Scott @ Ted

One of my favorite graphic designers is Scott Mccloud. Both his books on comics are gems. If you happen to read those books, I am certain that the next time you will read a comic , you will see it in a completely different way. Ted made his talk public, so had a chance to see him talking. According to Scott, Vision is about Learn from Others Follow No One Watch Patterns Work Like Hell I think these basic principles apply to trading too !

The Lady Tasting Tea : Visual Summary

![Image This post is going to serve as a good visual narrative of the development of frequentist world. If you love stats and have worked on identifying patterns in data, it is but obvious that you would have met a host of tests, with different names from different fields. Statistics is one field where the contribution has been made from all kinds of fields ranging from agriculture, clinical psychology, math, finance etc.