Long Form
- A Short Guide to Hard Problems What’s easy for a computer to do, and what’s almost impossible? Those questions form the core of computational complexity. A map of the landscape.
- Bitcoin’s Guardian Angel: Inside Coinbase Billionaire Brian Armstrong’s Plan To Make Crypto Safe For All In style and philosophy, Brian Armstrong, the 37-year-old billionaire cofounder and CEO of Coinbase, is in the camp of the financial anarchists.
- Chaos Scientist Finds Hidden Financial Risks That Regulators Miss Oxford Professor Doyne Farmer is working with central banks to improve stress testing.
- Inside the World’s Most Elite (and Secret) Traders’ Club https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-03/inside-the-world-s-most-elite-and-secret-traders-club
- Jim Simons, the Numbers King Algorithms made him a Wall Street billionaire. His new research center helps scientists mine data for the common good.
- Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street The story of David X. Li's Gaussian copula function,
- The Aesthetic Beauty of Math “A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns... If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.”
- The Brexit Short: How Hedge Funds Used Private Polls to Make Millions Private polls—and a timely ‘concession’ from the face of Leave—allowed the funds to make millions off the pound’s collapse.
- The Massive Hedge Fund Betting on AI Initially wary of the technology, Man Group was soon persuaded by the returns from algorithm-centric funds.
- The theory that will take artificial intelligence to the trading floor Today's technologies mean we can move on from mere cybernetics to neocybernetics.
- This MIT Economist Has a New Theory of Finance Andrew Lo wants you to realize that traders are animals.