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Ben Hyde: Hybrids make you fat!

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Sometimes a scientific paper makes me giggle.  The paper by Charles Courtemanche which I’m skimming this morning has a few examples of this.  For example it says that people tend to under report their weight and…

Paul Kedrosky: Option F and the Facebook 500,000

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Around this time last year Josh Kopelman came up with the idea of the Techcrunch chasm. The root idea is/was that too many companies were targeting the then-53,651 readers of Mike A’s popular Techcrunch blog. A good…

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Simpsonize Me

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Simpsonize Me. Just bring photos. ‘Nuff said.

Paul Kedrosky: Dear Hedge Fund Investors, Not-So-Sorry About That

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Otto: [practicing his apology] Oh, I’m so very, very, very sssssssss Fuck You!      — A Fish Called Wanda (1988)The WSJ has done a nice job of collecting all the supposed apology letters to investors from var…

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Central Air and Schrodinger’s Thermostat

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I recently had central air installed at Casa Kedrosky. It’s a fat R2D2-ish looking Trane thing, with a new blower, etc. The trouble is, the system blows prodigious, wind tunnel-esque amounts of cold air to two…

Paul Kedrosky: Predators, Prey, and the Fat-Tail Problem in Quant

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A quote in today's WSJ on the troubles quant funds had this week is worth pondering:"Wednesday is the type of day people will remember in quant-land for a very long time," said Mr. Rothman, a University of…

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