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I was suffering from a prolonged writer’s block, and was away from my blog for almost four months — probably the longest hiatus in my writing career. When a writer is lazy, it is writer’s b...

https://www.thulasidas.com/writers-block/

This post is an edited version of my responses in a Webinar panel-discussion organized by Wiley-Finance and FinCAD. The freely available Webcast is linked in the post, and contains responses from...

https://www.thulasidas.com/risk-wiley-fincad-webinar/

Wondering if our so-called progress is actually a blind march toward chaos an anarchy, I present a slightly disorganized line of thought in this short piece. The post Luddite Thoughts appeared...

https://www.thulasidas.com/luddite-thoughts/

An invite to a Webinar organized by FinCAD and Wiley Global Finance, featuring Paul Wilmott, Epsen Haug and yours faithfully... The post Risk: Interpretation, Innovation and Implementation app...

https://www.thulasidas.com/risk-interpretation-innovation-and-implementation/

The last post in this series of Love of Math looks at how math gets used in physics and finance. Or, more precisely, how one has to be careful about the assumptions in modeling stuff, and the pit...

https://www.thulasidas.com/physics-vs-finance/

Most kids love patterns. Math is just patterns. So is life. Math, therefore, is merely a formal way of describing life, or at least the patterns we encounter in life. So, where is the difficulty ...

https://www.thulasidas.com/math-and-patterns/

This is another short series of posts on love of math -- that questionable gift. Recently, I was asked to think about how to make kids love math. Here are my thoughts, as the first of three posts...

https://www.thulasidas.com/love-of-math/

I recently made my first book available on Amazon. I thought I would post this article, which is a good summary of the book. This article was published in a magazine in Singapore. The post The ...

https://www.thulasidas.com/the-unreal-universe/

Here is an article defending (to some extent) the insane salary expectations of the elite bankers and traders. And quants. This piece will appear in my regular column in Wilmott Magazine. The p...

https://www.thulasidas.com/in-our-defense/

Newspaper column in Today on 2 Aug 2008. We Singaporeans have a problem. We are graceless, they say. So we train ourselves to say the right magic words at the right times and to smile at random...

https://www.thulasidas.com/graceless-singaporean/