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Malcolm Gladwell's 12 Rules for Life

Revisionist History

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Cliff Astness and Aaron Brown, the Architects of the Polygole Principle

Crie arn brown is a member of the tribe of mathematically minded finance guis known as quantz. When i met him, i was reminded of my favourite joke about engineers, the optimist sees the glass as half full and the pessimist sees theGlass as half empty. The wall street quants used to gather after work at the odion restaurant in downtown manhattan to talk about gousy improbability in the bond marketyesthese different definitions of quants. Remember, quant is a insult invented in the midnindes cam it after there's a you. Here you may include thit thi isiis not a secret. I don't work

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