A historical collection of our writing.
Today in Uncertainty Wednesday we are continuing with some of the math of probability. As a reminder from last Wednesday, we have two states, A and B and two signal values H and L for four possible elementary events AH, AL, BH, and BL. We defined events as some combination of elementary events. So […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am super excited about today and woke up in advance of my alarm clock. Why? Because today is the first day of class for the second year of the NYU Stern Course I am co-teaching with Arun Sundararajan (btw, if you are interested in the sharing economy, I highly recommend Arun’s book). I love […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
susandanziger: (Source: susandanziger, via susandanziger) […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am an immigrant. I came to the US first in 1983 as an exchange student when I was 16. I stayed with a wonderful family in Rochester, Minnesota and fell in love with this country. I returned to Germany to finish school there but knew that I wanted to study here. I returned first […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
When your company is growing you have to add new layers of management. One common mistake is to only look outside the company. This is often promoted by investors who are worried that the early employees are too young and inexperienced. But if you only hire from the outside it can be demotivating […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
So last Uncertainty Wednesday, we introduced the simplest possible setup with two states and two signal values. Today we will introduce the concept of probability. If you go on Wikipedia you can find a great many different definitions of probability, such as classical, frequentist, and Bayesian. If […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
