Why go to a restaurant, if you can cook?

It's a simple question, if you can cook why go to a restaurant? First, being able to cook something to ward off hunger is not the same as being able to cook a Michelin star meal. The latter takes years of training and is somewhat of an art. How deep is your repertoire of dishes and would it compare...

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IRL - In real life

IRL is the internet abbreviation for "in real life". Think about how much of your communication is outside this sphere of "real life". How many e-mails you send and receive a day? How often do you text your friends? Do you tweet or use Facebook? The list is of course endless. I've mainly gone through...

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The mystery of patterns

I love patterns. As a mathematician, it seems natural that I seek to find patterns. Does this make me unique? Not really, it's a human trait to want to find a modicum of order in anything. In the book The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward by the late mathematician...

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Words & numbers in trading

There are words and numbers. It seems drummed into us from an early age that we're either a "words" or a "numbers" person. Perhaps, it is an over generalisation, to say that there's a certain pride at not being good at maths if you're "words" person, or having poor spelling if you're a "numbers"...

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