2020
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In Search of the Perfect Language Redux, Part 3: Modern Languages and Languages of Creativity
Last week I continued a discussion about my teacher, Joachim, and what he had taught me about languages as tools. He had a unique perspective on this as a former rabbi and professor of ancient…
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In Search of the Perfect Language Redux, Part 2: Modern Languages and Languages of Structure
Last week I discussed my great teacher Joachim, the greatest linguist and semiotician I have ever met. While I turned down Joachim’s offer to work for him and “join the family,” it was his teachings…
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In Search of the Perfect Language Redux, Part 1: Language as a Tool and Structure
In my life, I have been fortunate to have some very special mentors. Among those great teachers, none were greater than Fausto and Joachim, my great Italian teachers. While Fausto was a father to me…
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The (Coming) Golden Age, Part 3 – Hennessy, Patterson, and Google’s TPU
As it turns out, right around the time we were talking to the people from Dell in Palo Alto, Google was tackling the same problem, just not with finance but instead for search. Google had looked at…
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The (Coming) Golden Age, Part 2 – An Integrated Architecture for Finance
Once back in Utah, the promised servers from Dell arrived literally within days and that created other problems. As it turned out, Dell had sent me the exact same servers that it was providing to…
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The (Coming) Golden Age, Part 1 – The Limits of Dennard Scaling and Amdahl’s Law
There has been a lot of hand wringing in the tech industry since the 2019’s CES when Jensen Huang, the CEO and co-founder of Nvidia, announced that “Moore’s Law isn’t possible anymore.” Of course…
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Hedge Fund Investment Platforms
Just the other day, a friend of mine called and asked me what I thought about a “new investment platform” being hucked by yet another quant hedge fund. Without discussing what the big name was behind…