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Dave Bacon is a theoretical ski bum who is also a pseudo professor. His research is on quantum computing, his scientific passions extend to everything in physics, mathematics, computer science and beyond, and his personal pleasures include making wine, playing poker, skiing, camping, and daydreaming (although not all of those at the same time.)
Nothing he says on this blog should be construed as having anything to do with his employer or his dog.
Category: Computer Science
Blackjack, or 21, is a game that many enjoy wasting their money playing at casinos. For those who don't like to waste their money, or at least want to waste it more slowly than others, card counting is a time...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 6:29 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Finance
James Simons, he of the Chern-Simons form, and also, of late, from the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies Corporation, is retiring. The infamous Medallion fund was up last year, apparently, only a mere 80 percent. Quite a feat, turning into...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:23 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Economics
Those of you interested in the recent debate over math, beauty, economics, and Paul Krugman, and who are in New York on Oct 5 might be interested in a talk by Eric Weinstein at Columbia:We will be taking a position...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 8:53 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Economics
Krugman clarifies:I've been getting some comments from people who think my magazine piece was an attack on the use of mathematics in economics. It wasn't...So by all means let's have math in economics -- but as our servant, not our...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:37 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Astronomy
Two notes from Caltech of interest:Michael L. Roukes' group at Caltech has produced a NEMS (nanoelectromechanical system) device which can (almost) measure the mass of a single molecule (as opposed to the many tens of thousands (is this the correct...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 10:55 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Finance
Summer doesn't officially start here in Seattle until the fourth of July, but the summer vibe is definitely here. Which means no teaching, so it's all research all the time. But a man cannot live by his own research alone,...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:54 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Storytime
The other day I ran into a good friend from Tlön, who told me the most fascinating story about his discovery of a new theory of games....
Posted by Dave Bacon at 5:09 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Finance
Via MarketSci blog, Eric Rosenfeld talks about the collapse of LTCM at MIT. Funny I can't find in any MIT literature an advertisement for the fact that 2/3s of LTCM had MIT roots? (Caltech, snarky snark snark)...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:09 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Finance
Personally I'm very skeptical of technical analysis, but that's just because I am skeptical of easy answers. But try to parse this article over at bloomberg titled "Stock Charts Fail Forecast Test in Complete S&P Miss."...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 1:28 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Dog
Sundries....
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:36 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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