Maciej Ceglowski has a fascinating blog post in which he argues that the popular form of Moore’s Law (“computers always get faster and more capable”) is beginning to break down, but it does not matter because “the devices we use are becoming ‘good enough’”. However, as Ceglowski points out, stagnating computing power turns software bloat… Continue reading From Software Bloat to Minimalism
Month: July 2015
A computer hacking 30 years ago
Hacking computers was a very different game 30 years ago. Tim Berners-Lee had not yet invented the World Wide Web, and Microsoft had not yet created the Windows 3.x operating system. Like my fellow students at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, I did all my computing on a VAX mini computer running a dialect… Continue reading A computer hacking 30 years ago
Installing QuantLib-Python Quantitative Finance Library in Windows
QuantLib is a high quality open source C++ library for quantitative finance. There is also a mechanism (based on SWIG) to use this C++ library in Python without knowing any C++ at all, and this makes QuantLib extremely useful in the classroom: Prof. Vineet Virmani and I have a working paper about our experience with… Continue reading Installing QuantLib-Python Quantitative Finance Library in Windows
In the sister blog during June 2015
The following posts appeared on the sister blog (on Financial Markets and their Regulation) last month. Revolving door and favouring future employers On may versus must and suits versus geeks Back from vacation
Prof. Jayanth R Varma's blog on computing 