Highlights
April 2008
- Watched Oliver Twist (Masterpiece Theater).
- Attended a Red Sox-Yankees game at Yankee Stadium.
- Read Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Black Swan (2007).
March 2008
- Finished Rebecca Mead: One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding (2007).
- Visited the Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Gardens with Xiaoli, Tom, and Janis.
- Saw Patrick Stewart as Macbeth with Xiaoli, Tom, and
Janis.
- Passed the NASD Series 55 exam.
Celebrated with Jonathan at Gyu-Kaku afterwards.
- Visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Happened to see a curator giving a tour of the
How to Read Chinese Paintings
exhibition, in Mandarin, to a guest and entourage
from China's Forbidden City. Also saw the
Gustave Courbet
exhibition.
February 2008
- Read Josh Waitzkin's Art of Learning (2007).
- Voted for McCain in the New York Republican primary.
- Skimmed Edgar E. Peters's Chaos and Order in the Capital Markets (1991).
- Read Roger Lowenstein: When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (2000).
- Visited Tampa, beaches from Clearwater to St. Petersburg, and the Salvador Dali Museum.
- Reading Rebecca Mead: One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding (2007).
- Reading Richard E. Nisbett: The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently, and Why (2003).
- Watched Keira Knightley in Domino (2005) and Bend It Like Beckham (2002).
January 2008
- Read Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow: A Briefer History of Time.
- Read Leonard Mlodinow: Feynman's Rainbow.
- Read Michael Lewis: Liars' Poker.
- Watched the Bear Stearns Tournament of Champions 2008 squash competition finals in Grand Central Terminal.
- Attended a Knicks-76ers basketball game at Madison Square Garden.
- Attended two seminars: Andrew J. Sterge - "Where have all the stat arb profits gone?" and Andrew W. Lo - "What happened to the quants in August 2007?"
Previous years:
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Projects
- Sequencing by Hybridization
- H. Fleischner, Eulerian Graphs and Related Topics
- Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein, Introduction to Algorithms
- Ravindra K. Ahuja, Thomas L. Magnanti, James B. Orlin, Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
- Andrew Gelman, Bayesian Data Analysis
- José M. Bernardo, Bayesian Theory
- M. R. Garey, Computers and Intractability
- Shill Bidding
- Data collection
- Data analysis
- Versatile Feedback
- Pictures Database
Queue
- Betty Edwards, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
- Kimon Nicolaïdes, The Natural Way to Draw
- George Lakoff, Where Mathematics Comes From
- Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree
- Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club
- Duncan J. Watts, Six Degrees
- Elliott Sober, Philosophy of Biology
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Grand Fugue op. 134
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonatas for Piano and Violin
- David Mamet: The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews (2006).
- John H. Holland, Keith J. Holyoak, Richard E. Nisbett, Paul R. Thagard: Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery (1989).
- Richard Nisbett: The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why (2005).
- Vincent Virga: Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations (2007).
Toys
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