Wednesday, October 17, 2012

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Things worth reading: the European View (15)

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 01:10 AM PDT

Edith Rigler has sent me here infrequent view from Europe, and I decided to add my own item to the list today.  This is because I spotted a very interesting article by Wolfgang Munchau in Der Spiegel that blames Chancellor Helmut Kohl for all our European ailments and issues. Here are the essentials of Wolfgang’s column:read more...

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: With Preston Athey at the Baltimore CFA Society

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 09:34 PM PDT

I don’t think I have mentioned this publicly, but I am on the board of the the Baltimore CFA Society.  My main task is to be co-chair for Programs, though I also like working with college students via the CFA Institute’s Global investment Research Challenge.read more...

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Blog Post: Falkenblog: no title

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 08:21 PM PDT

As much as I think Romney is a better candidate than Obama, I sure wish Ron Paul had a shot. A poor guy in Iowa was dismissed via an absurd no-tolerance policy by the FDIC:A 68-year-old Des Moines man fired from a Wells Fargo call center for putting a cardboard dime in a washing machine in 1963 has been cleared to return to work in the banking industry, the Federal Deposit Insurance...

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Published / Preprint: Modeling Spatial Equilibrium in Cities: the Isobenefit Lines. (arXiv:1210.4461v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 05:31 PM PDT

I propose and briefly define the concept of Urban Isobenefit Lines by using functions as easy as efficient, whose results can offer a rich tool to use into spatial equilibrium analysis involving cities. They are line joining urban points with equal level of positional advantage from city amenities. The results which one obtain by implementing a chosen function, gave specific scenarios:...

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: Debt in a Time of Protests

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:58 PM PDT

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Blog Post: rob_daly: Market Structure Documentary Comes to the Silver Screen

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 10:59 AM PDT

Market Structure Documentary Comes to the Silver Screenread more...

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Blog Post: ThePracticalQuant: Spark 0.6 Improves Performance and Accessibility

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 09:17 AM PDT

[Cross-posted on the O'Reilly Strata blog.] In an earlier post I listed a few reasons why I've come to embrace and use Spark. In particular I described why Spark is well-suited for many distributed Big Data Analytics tasks such as iterative computations and interactive queries, where it outperforms Hadoop. With version 0.6, Spark becomes even0 faster and easier to use. The release notes contain...

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