In the sister blog and on Twitter during October and November 2015

The following posts appeared on the sister blog (on Computing) during the last two months.

• Formatting Numbers

• Responding to Volkswagen: open data and open source

• Saying no to spreadsheets

• Digital wills and printable password vaults

Tweets during the last two months (other than blog post tweets):

• November 26: Deal Professor on recent M&A deals: "business leaders seem to have perhaps slightly lost their touch with reality" http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/business/dealbook/telltale-signs-that-deal-makers-swallowed-the-silly-pills.html

• November 19: Asness says the most dangerous things are those that you think protect you, but only mostly protect you https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/cliff-asness-986ba8e92b4f#.cwcoch7nk

• November 19: Asness says "There's no investment process so good that there's not a fee high enough that can't make it bad." https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/cliff-asness-986ba8e92b4f#.cwcoch7nk

• October 29: Excellent BIS paper http://www.bis.org/publ/work524.htm shows how conventional cross border capital flow and investment data can be misleading.

• October 18:

  1. Yellen call 1/2. Artemis has a research report on preemptive central bank action. http://www.artemiscm.com/s/ArtemisQ32015Volatility-and-Prisoners-Dilemma-x71i.pdf (h/t http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/10/13/2142116/the-shadow-convexity-risk-in-the-machine-and-the-vix/)

  2. Yellen call 2/2. Greenspan (S&P500) Put took the risk out of buying stocks. Yellen VIX Call takes the risk out of selling volatility.

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