This is one of the most fun reading I’ve done recently. I think I saw it mentioned in BusinessWeek. The words that caught my interest was “gambling”, “stock market”, and “Claude Shannon“. Especially Late Dr. Shannon. Ever since I got involved in video and audio codec works, I’ve been interested in [...]
Fortune’s Formula : The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street by William Poundstone
January 20th, 2006 · No Comments · Books · Reviews
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North Korea and Free Market?
February 24th, 2004 · No Comments · Misc
There was an interesting editorial on the current issue of BusinessWeek (March 1, 2004, p. 56) titled, “Pyongyang: Will Its Recovery Speed a Deal?” by Rose Brady. This is on the report by several American Asian experts who visited North Korea in January.
The bustling, 500-stall private market on Pyongyang’s Tong Il Street … [...]
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Boys will be boys, or else?
May 19th, 2003 · No Comments · Rants
I just read an interesting article, “The New Gender Gap” by Michelle Conlin in BusinessWeek (May 26, 2003, pp.74-82). The article has a “provocative” subtitle, “From kindergarten to grad school, boys are becoming the second sex.”
Somehow I am not that surprised about the female excelling in school. Even for less “macho”/”aggressive” society such [...]
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Something about Genes
March 16th, 1999 · No Comments · Misc
I was reading an issue of BusinessWeek some time ago and found an interesting article (“It’s All in the Genes? Ha!,” BusinessWeek, March 16, 1999, pp. 100-102). It’s about the theory that challenges the established genetics community which believes that the genes are the only agents that transfer the traits from the previous generation to [...]
Tags: · BusinessWeek, genetics, individualism