Emanuel Derman
@emanuelderman.bsky.social
Books: My Life As A Quant; Models.Behaving.Badly; The Volatility Smile. Brief Hours and Weeks: https://www.amazon.com/Brief-Hours-Weeks-Life-Capetonian/dp/1068649100
http://www.emanuelderman.com
http://www.emanuelderman.com
At MOMA, Jack Whitten’s exhibition. Here are his notes to himself in 1972 about what to avoid in making his abstract art.
August 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
At MOMA, Jack Whitten’s exhibition. Here are his notes to himself in 1972 about what to avoid in making his abstract art.
The Mystery of the Blue Glove
by
Franklin W Dixon
by
Franklin W Dixon
June 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The Mystery of the Blue Glove
by
Franklin W Dixon
by
Franklin W Dixon
You can’t really ignite a spark. A spark is the thing that ignites something else. OK, I’m not sending my kids to this school.
May 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
You can’t really ignite a spark. A spark is the thing that ignites something else. OK, I’m not sending my kids to this school.
Robinson Crusoe on discovering the hidden complexity, and the need for tools made by other people that he now does not have, of things he formerly took for granted.
May 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Robinson Crusoe on discovering the hidden complexity, and the need for tools made by other people that he now does not have, of things he formerly took for granted.
I was waiting for many many years to sky this cartoon
By Ted Rall
“I was going to kill you. Now I’m not. But I will kill you unless you agree that I just saved your life. “
By Ted Rall
“I was going to kill you. Now I’m not. But I will kill you unless you agree that I just saved your life. “
April 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I was waiting for many many years to sky this cartoon
By Ted Rall
“I was going to kill you. Now I’m not. But I will kill you unless you agree that I just saved your life. “
By Ted Rall
“I was going to kill you. Now I’m not. But I will kill you unless you agree that I just saved your life. “
Tonight! And I’ll be there
April 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Tonight! And I’ll be there
March 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
March 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Sad but accurate summary from Grants Interest Rate Observer
March 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Sad but accurate summary from Grants Interest Rate Observer
Who does Kevin Kline/Otto in the conclusion of a Fisch Called Wanda remind you of?
February 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Who does Kevin Kline/Otto in the conclusion of a Fisch Called Wanda remind you of?
Stanley Kubrick‘s Dr. Strangelove. Very worth seeing, with the great Peter Sellers, who first came to fame on the BBC Radio Goon Show.
January 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Stanley Kubrick‘s Dr. Strangelove. Very worth seeing, with the great Peter Sellers, who first came to fame on the BBC Radio Goon Show.
And what on earth does this mean on my movie ticket receipt?
January 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
And what on earth does this mean on my movie ticket receipt?
Just got my US copy of
@stefanstern's book on Ambition.
@stefanstern's book on Ambition.
January 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Just got my US copy of
@stefanstern's book on Ambition.
@stefanstern's book on Ambition.
Not very convincing
December 27, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Not very convincing
I like this way of doing it, from Cape Town a while back
December 24, 2024 at 1:49 PM
I like this way of doing it, from Cape Town a while back
@nybooks review of Svetlana Alpers book “Is Art History?”
December 11, 2024 at 6:50 PM
@nybooks review of Svetlana Alpers book “Is Art History?”
An answer I gave in an interview about my forthcoming book "Brief Hours and Weeks"
December 7, 2024 at 3:57 PM
An answer I gave in an interview about my forthcoming book "Brief Hours and Weeks"
Manin, I am enjoying his book immensely. Even though I’m not a pure mathematician and I don’t understand what he’s saying sometimes, you learn something from him even when you don’t understand him.
December 3, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Manin, I am enjoying his book immensely. Even though I’m not a pure mathematician and I don’t understand what he’s saying sometimes, you learn something from him even when you don’t understand him.
Fabulous book, in general, and especially the introduction, which confirms my beliefs about the meaning of the words models, theories, metaphors.
November 30, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Fabulous book, in general, and especially the introduction, which confirms my beliefs about the meaning of the words models, theories, metaphors.
This guy in the article in Quanta Magazine is reading Yuri Manin’s “Mathematics as Metaphor”, a book I stumbled on and bought when I was writing. Models.Behaving.Badly, and was interested in the notion that models are metaphors whereas theories are facts.
November 29, 2024 at 2:50 PM
This guy in the article in Quanta Magazine is reading Yuri Manin’s “Mathematics as Metaphor”, a book I stumbled on and bought when I was writing. Models.Behaving.Badly, and was interested in the notion that models are metaphors whereas theories are facts.
František Kupka “The Colored One” at Guggenheim
November 27, 2024 at 1:37 AM
František Kupka “The Colored One” at Guggenheim