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Market completion with Wishart variance

The following page documents the simulation happening in the model described here, i.e. the Wishart based…
Octave meshgrid, surf and video slideshow

Since the release of the splendid GUI, Octave has become again one of my favorite tools. Here…
Bosch’s “The Conjurer” & Nim Chimpsky

The famous painting by Bosch “The Conjurer” depicts an example of a cognitive fallacy of the human being,…
Practical reason as sorcery (i): Kant reconsidered

It seems to me that the ethical problems are adequately framed by Kant when he says that…
Il Dio dei matematici

Questa intervista al grandissimo Enrico Bombieri e’ molto profonda. A un certo punto B. dice: “Il Dio che viene…
M. Escher, or breaking the Kantian spell

In Late Middle Age, the position of the stars in navigation maps was programmatically out of…
Deflation of human agency

One of the premier Art Deco buildings in London, the famed Senate House (above) keeps resonating…
Ascesa & Declino: “All that is solid melts into air”

In his marvelous study of modernism “All that is solid melts into air“, Marshall Berman claims…
Dialectic of the Enlightenment?

Syncretism is the true currency of our time. Living in London, this is more than an erudite…
“It is not important what we cover, but what you discover” (Victor Weisskopf)

Otium, in ancient Roman time, was the time productively spent pursuing the agenda of your personal…