Written by Atul Gawande in 2009, The Checklist Manifesto is one of those books that has been recommended to me from multiple sources, so at the insistence of a new colleague, I bumped it up my list. Atul, or Dr. Gawande as he’s known in the surgical circles, was …
Seldom does one read a business book with humor, and often that humor is so atrocious, it’s best left out. This is perhaps one of the most unassuming business book I’ve read. To top it off, it’s on Information Technology/Systems Security! Measuring and Managing Information Risk …
While I’m still writing up my review on Udacity’s class on Inferential Statistics, I’m knee deep into their Artificial Intelligence Nano Degree program. Our second project is to create a custom game playing agent for the simple Isolation game. Isolation is played on a grid board (think …
It’s been over a decade since I’ve had a statistics class and I’ve been feeling a little inadequate in my descriptive skills that I decided to brush up a bit with a Udacity Intro To Descriptive Statistics course. Much of this course was review and I got …
In all courses of life, avoiding a major catastrophe is probably good advice. Nassim Taleb writes about the randomness of such events, dubbed Black Swans in his 2004 book Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets. While a good portion of the book …
Quick entry here to remind you to be observant and always reading. I just understood a novel concept that I didn’t even know existed.
Logarithmic v Linear graphs for stock market pricing. I hadn’t realized that the best pricing charts were logarithmic until I had read an article …