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Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb surprised me. I didn't
really know what to expect. Originally, I thought it was written by a
guy who doesn't have enough gusto to think he is a talented trader,
that it was going to be an apology, possibly a confession. In reality,
it was a thoughtful meditatation on randomness--determinism even. A
treatise on the role determinism plays in life, and especially in
trading, it examines
various phenomena from the Monte Carlo perpective, resulting in a tounge-in-cheek
intellectual's view of the meaning of randomness in a social and even
historical context, from a quantiative practictioner. The value of this book lies in Taleb's insights into where statistical
models diverge from how people perceive and experience the world around
them.
Dean Buckner of the UK Financial Services Authority gave the Regulator’s View on the progress in the control of End User Computing (EUC) in the financial markets at Eusprig 2007. His themes were echoed by many subsequent speakers
Microsoft comments on how technology is leveraged by companies
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When combining two spreadsheets, and one has truncated data, how can a pair of columns be matched for sorting. For example, one spreadsheet contains all of the investments made last year. The second contains a list for which annual reports have been completed. However, annual reports have not been completed for all of the investments. Thus, the names of investments column in the first spreadsheet contains more items, than the same column in the second spreadsheet. Since the name is a unique identifier, the goal would be to match them. Then, the first spreadsheet could be used as a checklist for those investments that still require an annual report.
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