Thanks TP for sending me a link about this company. Went through The Need for a New Analytic Architecture Sounds very interesting!! and exciting!!

I have always been fascinated by ants. Infact I took some time out and via kathalaya told a story to 4th class kids about ants..Here is an interesting post on swarm intelligence in NYT Link :From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm

How to spot the spike before the earnings announcement. Vixandmore has a detailed article

Easy in the short run, painfully DISASTROUS in the long run

In April , India announced India VIX. Obviously I have not kept track of this event for various reasons. However today when I browsed through the NSE site, I found that NSE has outlined the methodology for India VIX. It is exactly same as CBOE. There was one thing which was very disheartening, the document which outlies the procedure is a Ctrl C+ Ctrl V of the CBOE documents with author putting no effort whatsoever in taking time out in at least typing the formulae in Latex.