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Some news are still worth to remember even when it goes old.

The Rise and Fall of the Quants

The best career for Engineering, Math and Physics Ph.D. are in the wall street. Maybe studying hard science would become back in fashion again with the potential reward. It is just odd that those who want to earn quick money in finance have the will to earn a hard science Ph.D. in the first place.

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Parkinson’s Law

This is the classic paper on work and schedule. It is a known fact that work will expands to fill up its allocated time. Somehow our management take it one step further, thinking work can also be squeezed into a unrealistically tight schedule.

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FINA Proposes Banning High-Tech Swim Suits

Maybe FINA should simply ban swim suits, everyone has to swim naked. Sport without technology innovation is a dead end. What’s so glorious about pushing the limit of human boby? No matter how fast a man can swim, he can’t be faster than a fish or a speedboat.

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Efficiency and beyond

Is it the death of efficient market hypothesis, or are we just missing some human variables from the equations?

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The other-worldly philosophers

The lefties always love trashing economy theories being the slave of the all evil capitalism. Maybe this article from the Economist, the stronghold from the right, would deliver debate ammo to the lefties, if they choose to misinterpret it for their convenience.

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