Narrow Focus

Via : Groupware Bad Narrow the focus. Your “use case” should be, there’s a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?

Awesome band

 bodhiTree: bodhiTree: An expression of the alternate lifestyle Away from such words as pedagogy and value add, part of everyday parlance in a busines school..? Where suddenly words like feedback and monitor-mix take on meanings of extreme importance. Where the right bend, the right note slapped, the right drum roll and the soar in the vocals leads you into nirvana…

Is Financial Engineering Dead

Technology Review: The Blow-Up Beneath all this beats the great hope of the quants: namely, that the financial world can be understood through math. They have tried to discover the underlying structures of financial markets, much as academics have unlocked the mysteries of the physical world. The more quants learn, however, the farther away a unified theory of finance seems. Human behavior, as manifested in the financial markets, simply resists quantification, at least for now.