Research Diary

Tidbits from behavioral economics: What counts as a gain or a loss is relative to prior prices, not considered as independent of an investor’s attention. A stock acquired at $50 and and acheives a year-end value of $100. A few months into the new year it is sold at $75. While this is objectively a [...]

Added a new page to the blog on Spectral Density Analysis. I am mostly interested in how I can use such methodologies in timeseries analysis.
Here is the link to the scrapbook.

For the longest time I was looking for a search engine that would make my life easier for Research related searches. Google is great but it does not always return focused results especially if the site I am looking for is at the fringes of the web and does not have too many connecting links. [...]

You see these images pop up everywhere. Custom magazine covers… And I was thinking that people have all this free time in their hands and they build it from scratch using Photoshop or similar tools.. Well this particular cover took me only 30 seconds. And I used a website to create it… Here is the link to [...]

There are so many resources out there on how to prepare the perfect presentation, but most of them are geared towards business presentation where 90% of the material is fluff. So looking nice is more important than how you present a difficult idea. This link describes the ingredients of a good academic presentation. It [...]

An interesting site and associated blog on the less known and somehow lost work of Alan Turing. Especially interesting is the section on Turing’s work on mathematical biology. More can be found on the site. Here is the link.

Some of these might be pretty interesting to watch. Especially the Statistics and Probability ones.

"Peoples Archive is dedicated to collecting for posterity the stories of the great thinkers, creators, and achievers of our time. The people whose stories you see on this site are leaders of their field, whose work has influenced and changed our world."

This is a great site for listening and watching great thinkers talking about science [...]

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute launched on March 21st a search engine
that speeds up the hunt for important DNA sequences more than
100-fold. Just as important, the engine scans all known sequence
data from all available organisms, saving time for researchers, who,
until the release of TraceSearch, had to inspect [...]

List of Algorithms posted in Wikipedia. Might be useful one day…[List of algorithms]