Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines, and Wired Markets

10.8. Notes

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^[] Asian Cajun is an actual cuisine that is suddenly all the rage in the huge Los Angeles area Asian neighborhoods of Westminster, Alhambra, and Monterey Park. Those keen on elegant presentation may want to pass. This is a meal after which you wash off with a garden hose. Tasty variants on Cajun crawfish, shrimp, lobster, and crab are all served up, with your choice of sauce (spicy, greasey, or spicy and greasey), in big clear plastic bags dropped on a table covered in brown paper, with a roll of paper towels on the side. Paper plates and plastic forks are available on request. It's much better than it sounds.

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^[] In Tina Fey's dead-on parody of Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric, the faux Palin asked "to use one of my lifelines, Katie." She would have been better off asking to poll the audience. The funniest line in that skit, a long disconnected utterance that failed to parse as English, was taken verbatim from the actual interview.

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^[] Treynor is widely regarded as having been a shoo-in to have shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in economics had he only published a paper that was sitting in his desk drawer.

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^[] Still in print after 150 years (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1995).

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^[] James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations (New York: Random House, 2004), xix.

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