Monday, January 20, 2014

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Published / Preprint: What can transmission do for a fully renewable Europe?. (arXiv:1401.4298v1 [physics.soc-ph])

Posted: 19 Jan 2014 05:38 PM PST

Our research is centred around the question how to best integrate the variable renewable energy sources (VRES), wind power and solar photovoltaics, into the European electricity grid. The future electricity supply will be based to a large extend on these fluctuating resources. We have conducted a study, extrapolating national historical and targeted wind and solar power penetrations in Europe up...

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Published / Preprint: Diversity of scales makes an advantage: The case of the Minority Game. (arXiv:1401.4331v1 [q-fin.TR])

Posted: 19 Jan 2014 05:38 PM PST

We use the Minority Game as a testing frame for the problem of the emergence of diversity in socio-economic systems. For the MG with heterogeneous impacts, we show that the direct generalization of the usual agents' profit does not fit some real-world situations. As a typical example we use the traffic formulation of the MG. Taking into account vehicles of various lengths it can easily...

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Published / Preprint: A Multiple Network Approach to Corporate Governance. (arXiv:1401.4387v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 19 Jan 2014 05:38 PM PST

In this work, we consider Corporate Governance ties among companies from a multiple network perspective. Such a structurenaturally arises from the close interrelation between the Shareholding Network and the Board of Directors network. Inorder to capture the simultaneous effects on both networks on Corporate Governance, we propose to model the Corporate Governance multiple network structure via...

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Blog Post: PatrickBurns: What is volatility?

Posted: 19 Jan 2014 10:58 AM PST

Some facts and some speculation.read more...

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Blog Post: ThePracticalQuant: IPython: A unified environment for interactive data analysis

Posted: 19 Jan 2014 10:36 AM PST

[A version of this post appears on the O'Reilly data blog.]As I noted in a recent post on reproducing data projects, notebooks have become popular tools for maintaining, sharing, and replicating long data science workflows. Much of that is due to the popularity of IPython1. In development since 2001, IPython grew out of the scientific computing community and has slowly added features that appeal...

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: The Finanser's Week: 13th January - 19th January 2014

Posted: 19 Jan 2014 01:19 AM PST

Our biggest stories of the past week are ...read more...

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Good Over-the-Counter 'Pinkâ Stocks

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 10:59 PM PST

I really appreciate my readers.  Here’s an e-mail from one:read more...

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