Joe Petviashvili

“But the crux of reflexivity is not so obvious; it asserts that market prices can influence the fundamentals. The illusion that markets manage to be always right is caused by their ability to affect the fundamentals they are supposed to more...

“building Excel spreadsheets into which they'd dump all the information they'd gathered about how each boss behaved: What potions affected it, what attacks it would use, with what damage, and when. Then they'd develop a mathematical model to explain how more...

“about 67 times as high as a typical MRI—without blowing itself to smithereens.”

“The total world's population of Haskell programmers fits in a 747. And if that goes down, nobody would even notice.”

“Establishing empathy is one of the harder things to recreate over the web”

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“The American financial system has started to look as logical as “turtles all the way down” this week.”

“very close to the lens surface (called the near field), the light can resolve objects that are much smaller than the wavelength of light.”

“markets enter into a state of dynamic disequilibrium and behave quite differently from what would be considered normal by the theory of efficient markets.”

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The world is in the middle of a massive financial crisis. Who better to guide us through how it came to pass, what its implications are, and how to repair the damage, than the man universally regarded as the greatest more...