The Long Tail

Posted on Dec 13, 2010 in Blog The Long Tail by Chris Andersen is in quite interesting book that introduces and explains in detail a change to the economic interpretations of supply and demand over the last few decades. In the book he introduces the concept of the Long tail as a shift in the reach of the economic supply and demand curves as both suppliers’ inventories expand and the customers demand in the same way follows....
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Bailout Nation

Posted on Dec 13, 2010 in Books Barry Ritholtz is without a doubt one of the most popular financial bloggers today. Ritholtz has been voicing his thoughts on his blog titled The Big Picture since 2003. Ritholtz is the CEO and Director of Equity Research at Fusion IQ, an online quantitative research firm, his opinions are widely respected and he often appears on radio and television show to give voice to those opinions. Through...
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I’m back to blogging

Posted on Dec 13, 2010 in Blog Following my departure from the warm embrace of academia, I have been extremely lazy guy when it comes to blogging. I haven’t written anything over the last year but all that is about to change since I’ve decided that I need an output medium to express my views on certain things. Therefore I’ve decided to take up blogging again. With this return to blogging there will be a few...
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Surrogates

Posted on Oct 21, 2009 in Movies Surrogates offers a interesting concept that states that the majority of Earth’s population no longer spend their time living their life but rather in the inhabiting the surrogate bodies which are highly functional robots that are have attributes similar to humans in most aspects only more powerful. Bruce Willis takes on the role of an FBI agent, Tom Geer that uses one of these surrogates...
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The Naming Of The Beasts

Posted on Oct 3, 2009 in Books I picked up Mike Carey’s new book The Naming of The Beasts, the fifth book in the Felix Castor series, on the release day September 10th and was lucky enough to get it signed by Mike Carey himself. As I’ve noted in my posts on the previous books in the series (The Devil You Know, Vicious Circle, Dead Men’s Boots and Thicker Than Water), the books’ premise is one parallel...
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I Sell The Dead

Posted on Sep 12, 2009 in Movies Two weekends ago London’s Empire Cinema at Leicester Square was the host of Freakfest 2009. Freakfest is a pretty large scale film festival centred on horror movies. The festival ran from Thursday till Sunday with people having the option of buying whole festival passes, day passes or single viewing tickets. I chose to buy a single ticket to go see I Sell The Dead starting Dominic Monaghan...
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