I have been rather enjoying rediscovering Coupling, a British comedy series that ran for four brief seasons in the early 2000s. I think of it as Friends for a smarter audience and with more emphasis towards exploring relationships and sex. It is incredibly well written – and its premise is rather sweet (I recommend watching the [...]
A few events happened in recent times that lead me to question the track I am taking. Two good friends from my investment club at school have now left sellside, one to join a relatively unknown but specialized fund, the other to a shop held in deep awe by anyone who knows anything about value [...]
Today is one of those days where I worked extraordinarily hard and then ended up with nothing to how for it # You may hate me but it ain't no lie, bye bye bye # One of those days when I worked insanely hard and… got closer to an ever distant goal # i'm so, [...]
Today was one of the worst days yet in my brief career so far. Everything that went wrong did, and worse, things that could never ever go wrong decided to rear up and throw this novice rider off just for the hell of it. Every risk I took failed. Every initiative I made backfired. Every [...]
With thanks to Prof Bindel of the Big Red. I am putting this up because the wikipedia example on this is divinely lacking in what normal people consider “correct”ness or clarity of exposition. Source - qrdecomp Working implementation - qrdecomp It uses a slightly modified version of my Newton v1.10 library – all modifications will be incorporated [...]

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