Highlights

May 2009

• Read Michael Covel's Trend Following (2005).
• Read Edwin Lefevre's Reminisces of a Stock Operator.

April 2009

• Attended a lecture by Bonnie Bassler (Princeton) at Rockefeller University.
• Flipped through almost every book in the New York Public Library on Ruby on Rails.
  • Good
    • Eldon Alameda: Foundation Rails 2 (2008)
    • Dan Chak, Enterprise Rails (2009)
    • Mike Clark: Advanced Rails Recipes (2008)
    • Bruce A Tate, Lance Carlson, Curt Hibbs: Rails: Up and Running (2009)
  • Mediocre, Useless, or Bad
    • Aneesha Bakharia: Ruby on Rails Power! (2007)
    • Edward Benson: The Art of Rails (2008)
    • Barry A Burd: Ruby on Rails for Dummies (2007)
    • Michael Hartl: RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails (2008)
    • Christian Hellsten: Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional (2006)
    • Patrick Lenz: Simply Rails 2 (2008)
    • Steven Holzner: Beginning Ruby on Rails (2007)
    • Noel Rappin: Professional Ruby on Rails (2008)
• Dined at Le Grainne Cafe with Sonny and Erica.
• Checked out Doris Lessing's Prisons We Choose to Live Inside (1987) again.
• Visited Chelsea Market.
• Dined at The Spotted Pig.
• Dined at Bistro 61.
• Watched Beer Wars.
• Lunched at Bayard's on Hudson with Chris and Jonathan.
• Flipped through SQL in a Nutshell (2009)
• Dined at Bistro Chat Noir.
• Finished reading Victor Niederhoffer and Laurel Kenner: Practical Speculation (2003).
• Visited Cedar Beach, Babylon, NY.

March 2009

• Attended a chat with Jane Rosenthal at Bloomberg.
• Attended a lecture by Ralph Adolphs: "The Social Brain and Autism".
• Dined at Vong with Tom and Janis.
• Dined at Halfsteak with Tom and Janis.
• Visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Ryan and Megan.
• Lunched at Rai Rai Ken, followed by coffee at Chikalicious.
• Lunched with Toufic at Arepas Cafe, followed by coffee at The Mercury Dime.

February 2009

• Had brunch at Madison Restaurant with Tom and Janis.
• Attended a lecture by Paul Glasserman: "Gamma Expansion of Heston Stochastic Volatility Model".
• Claimed unemployment benefits.
• Watched Happy-Go-Lucky at Quad Cinemas.
• Signed up for Facebook and Twitter.
• Started learning Ruby on Rails.
• Lunched with Denis.

January 2009

• Watched Revolutionary Road.
• Went skiing with Jack and Yudong.
• Read Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Fooled by Randomness (2004).
• Looking for work.
• Read Richard Bookstaber: A Demon of Our Own Design (2007).
• Visited the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
• Dined at Otto Enoteca.
• Visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Previous years:

• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002

Projects

• Market-making / impact simulation
• 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
  • Plots
• Pictures Database