Wired article on copulas Reader Scott Bury forwarded this article from Wired on the probability function that many used to quantify the risk of certain financial instruments. You can think…

Those of us who love radio love the human voice. Few, if any, voices were as beautiful as Paul Harvey's. I can remember listening to him when I was a…

Sigh. I wonder why these Enlightened souls bother with school. They have already told themselves that they know everything there is worth knowing. The only other thing worth noting---the video…

Dear Mortgage Holder, Obama's latest plan must sound pretty sweet to you. You bought a house and paid too much for it. It didn't look that way at first because…

Update. The site was down all day, from 7:30 am to about 7:00 pm EST. Any comments you made were lost. Please, please post them again. With hope, the site…

A friend recently related this, unfortunately not atypical, incident at my friend's company. It was the joyous time of year for personal evaluations. Way they do it at that company…