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| Dec 14, 2025 | » | CS 81n: Hackers and Heroes
2 min; updated Dec 14, 2025
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| Dec 24, 2019 | » | Investing in Kenya
15 min; updated Aug 8, 2025
Areas to ConsiderCapital MarketsThe Central Depository and Settlement Corporation (CDSC) runs the Central Depository System (CDS) that facilitates holding and trading of shares at the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE). A Central Depository Agent (CDA) is a Stockbroker, an Investment Bank, or a Custodian Bank, who has been authorized by the CDSC to open accounts in CDS on behalf of investors. In 2006, an Automatic Trading System was introduced so that orders are matched automatically and executed by stockbrokers on a first-come first-served basis. Government bonds have also been added to the ATS. Securities lending, short-selling and same day turnaround trades are not yet permitted. ... |
| Aug 31, 2024 | » | NBA 2K25: MyNBA
11 min; updated Dec 15, 2024
MyNBA is my favorite playing mode in NBA 2K. Starting out as the GM of the Seattle Supersonics in 1983, how well can I steer the franchise? Playing all 82 games per season would need \(82 \text{ games/season} \times 41 \text{ seasons} \times 20 \text{ min/game} \approx 47 \text{ days}\) to catch up to today’s NBA and that’s not accounting for the playoffs. Simulating games is the way to go; might help improve my understanding of the game. ... |
| May 2, 2020 | » | Health Ethics
3 min; updated Mar 22, 2023
Faster Human TrialsIn 1986, AZT (AIDS treatment) showed 1/145 deaths compared to the placebo’s 16/137. 6,000 AIDS patients were offered AZT, helping it get to the public much faster. ... |
| Jan 30, 2021 | » | Wall Street Potpourri
4 min; updated Jan 21, 2023
Maximizing the Value for ShareholdersSuing a company for not following its code of ethics and therefore misleading investors doesn’t fly, but Signet Jewelers settled for $240m . Signet’s 70k female employees sued for discrimination, but the class action is yet to be resolved. Tom Toro’s New Yorker cartoon : Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders. ... |
| Jun 15, 2021 | » | Thoughts on Academic Research
7 min; updated Dec 3, 2022
Why Even Read Papers?While tutorials and docs help you write code right now, the academic papers can help you understand where programming came from and where it’s going. You also understand the paths that foundational academic research did not take. There’s a lot of things that are old that are new again, over and over and over. The idea of Stack Overflow is that someone else has had your problem before; the idea of academic papers is that someone else has thought about this problem before. ... |
Harden, a liberal behavior geneticist, is publishing a book, “The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality”. Watch this space as it casts doubt on prevailing social justice thesis that environmental factors, and not genetics, influence behavior or social outcomes.
Check back in Sept 2022 (one year from now).