Archive for March, 2008
Four #1 Seeds Advance to the Final Four
Should be legendary.
My pick: UCLA over UNC in the Championship with Love dominating Hansborough.
Posted: March 30th, 2008 at 7:18 pm under uncategorized.
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For every light you turn off, I’m going to turn on three
Earth Hour
This is almost as stupid as boycotting filling gas for a day. All this energy wasted to come up with an hour long solution, it blows my mind…
Posted: March 28th, 2008 at 9:30 pm under uncategorized.
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Mathematically Eliminated
After 4 and 2/3 years of studying Computational Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, I finally got a chance to apply math to the world of sports.
We were taught how to determine whether a team is mathematically eliminated based on mid-season standings using a Network Flow model and the Max-Flow / Min-Cut Theorem. Very cool [...]
Posted: March 28th, 2008 at 2:42 am under uncategorized.
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An intriguing proposal
McCain to investigate a US-EU free trade agreement
Senator McCain, your ideas intrigue to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Obama wants to help irresponsible lenders/borrowers
I’m all for helping out people who lost their homes, but if you reward stupidity with a bailout, nobody will learn from their mistakes… I blame Greenspan for this [...]
Posted: March 26th, 2008 at 4:49 pm under uncategorized.
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Project for the Summer
Thanks to CS 476, I’ve got a good start on creating a library of Option Pricers (both, simulation and PDEs) and Hedge Strategy Testers. My work is based on the basic Black-Scholes model and looks at simple puts and calls
This summer, I want to extend my pricers to work with different models and deal with exotic [...]
Posted: March 24th, 2008 at 9:11 pm under uncategorized.
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Sivji’s Links [2008-03-13]
Clinton and Obama Tax Plans – are people even paying attention to policies anymore? No they aren’t!
March Madness on Demand – watch tourney games on your computer
EA hostiling TakeTwo – lets hope my precious GTA series doesn’t get EA-ified
Posted: March 13th, 2008 at 5:25 pm under uncategorized.
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The End of the Wire
The Wire concluded its five season run this past Sunday on HBO. Its a bit sad that the greatest TV show I’ve ever seen has ended, but what a way to go: quite easily the best series finale this side of Arrested Development
Posted: March 11th, 2008 at 10:41 pm under uncategorized.
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401Ks, TN Visas, and Deep Dish Pizzas
I accepted an offer to work fulltime for an actuarial consulting firm in Chicago. I’ll be working with the Capital Markets team doing a bunch of different things. Should be a great experience and I can’t wait to start.
Speaking of which, I’m most likely going to start work in October-ish. I’m looking for something to [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2008 at 9:32 pm under 42, work.
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Memorized All 50 State Capitals
4B is loads of fun!
Posted: March 6th, 2008 at 1:07 pm under sivji-isms.
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