Gaussian copula

Courtesy Marginal Revolution, a piece on Wired.com about the Gaussian copula. . ... not all calamities are individual, and tranching stil...

triangulation

IT took issue with what she saw as the false innocence of Alain de Botton's new book on work; ADB took issue with IT's irresponsible...

Toto, I don't think we're in New York

In Berlin, a tip is not calculated on a percentage of the total. On the one hand, one German teacher told me he would leave a tip of 1 euro...

Lectrix

Came across a resource offered by CUP, Lectrix: Four Greek and four Latin texts are on offer. The main focus of the interface is on the text...

(looking for upmarket rephrase of "wow" but fast and frugal heuristics wins the day)

From Marginal Revolution , news of this paper by Keith E. Stanovich and Richard F. West: In 7 different studies, the authors observed that ...

under the net

2008 was supposed to be the year I stopped smoking, stopped drinking, went to the gym every day and finished five books. It didn't work...

Dark Night of the Soul

Ana Maria Pacheco has a show in Miami that ends Feb 14. Not sure the blog has any readers in Miami, but if you're there you shouldn...