Night Owls Chatterboxes - Part LXIX
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Ever read Nassem Taleb's books?
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Originally posted by cassie:
Ever read Nassem Taleb’s books?
Pardon my ignorance, but who's that?Sounds familiar...
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Originally posted by SBS2601D:
The 2nd pic....how did you do that effect? It's very nice.
cassie> The one on globalisation is by Joseph Stiglitz....I already had 2 of his books, and it had been very informative, so you can call that purchase pre-empted.
And then I saw the one on irrationality. Which well, is related to economics since it leads to asymmetric/imperfect information.
using rear sync...
press shutter, turn camera (90degrees), then subject appear, flash on..
then become like that... pretty easy..
go try, it's fun :)
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Originally posted by LOTUSfairy:
using rear sync...
press shutter, turn camera (90degrees), then subject appear, flash on..
then become like that... pretty easy..
go try, it's fun :)
Rear sync...?I understand the shutter speed is low...but when you press the shutter, doesn't the flash go off at once?
Oh wait....is that how it went?
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Nassem Taleb - Black Swan. Talks about over reliance of financial industry on models; models don't work; chastised people about ignoring the outlier events
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Originally posted by cassie:
Nassem Taleb – Black Swan. Talks about over reliance of financial industry on models; models don’t work; chastised people about ignoring the outlier events
A lot of models are getting a beating now....There's doubts about the supply/demand standard theory now because the underlying assumption is that the market and the people are rational when evidently they are not.
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Originally posted by SBS2601D:
Rear sync...?I understand the shutter speed is low...but when you press the shutter, doesn't the flash go off at once?
Oh wait....is that how it went?
yes, the shutter will be slow, there's when u do the twist (notice background is round and blurred)..no...becos of slow shutter, after the twist, the flash goes off...therefore it captures the boy on bike clearly (sharp).
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Models are models. Projections and forecasts are just that. Not actual numbers. I think the greatest tragedy was rating sub prime loans as AAA. How can something that is fundamentally of a higher rick be adjudged of a superior quality when bunched together?
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Originally posted by LOTUSfairy:
yes, the shutter will be slow, there's when u do the twist (notice background is round and blurred)..no...becos of slow shutter, after the twist, the flash goes off...therefore it captures the boy on bike clearly (sharp).
Hmmm....Its not that I've never tried such a picture, but normally the flash goes off at once, and the picture carries on being taken due to the slow shutter....
Wait....that's normally because I activate the flash to pop up on standby and then take the pic....
Next time I see if I can delay the flash.
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Originally posted by cassie:
Models are models. Projections and forecasts are just that. Not actual numbers.
I think the greatest tragedy was rating sub prime loans as AAA. How can something that is fundamentally of a higher rick be adjudged of a superior quality when bunched together?
This one is a bit too cheem for me....I'm still unable to quite grasp the capital and financial market...
Edit: But I still remember the cases of self-fulfilling prophesies. Where the finance market collapsed because of pessimism leading to pessimistic ratings, which was basically predicting the market will crash....and crash it did because of that.
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You'll get the hang of it when classes start.
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Originally posted by cassie:
You’ll get the hang of it when classes start.
I hope so....It looks like I'm missing out on a lot of fun.
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ah 2601, got see my PM over QoS issue?
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It's even more fun constructing the models. No I really do mean it. If you're the type that like messing about with math formulas and excel.
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Originally posted by sbst275:
ah 2601, got see my PM over QoS issue?
Ah ya...so all eyes should be on smrt now. -
It's just a form of transportation.
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Originally posted by cassie:
It’s even more fun constructing the models. No I really do mean it. If you’re the type that like messing about with math formulas and excel.
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Originally posted by SBS2601D:
Ah ya...so all eyes should be on smrt now.
7 weeks left to meet e QoSanyway reminds me.. you know Sv 154 joins e league of Sv 95, 96 & 179 of ultra frequent bus svs... 154's AM peak freq bet Boon Lay & NP is now 2 - 5 mins
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nite nite guys.. i need to go sleep liao :)
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Actually building and playing with the excel model can be therapeutic (ok, spelling sucks!). Beats having to fiddle and review the legal docs. Of course best of all is chatting and surfing the net.
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Originally posted by cassie:
Actually building and playing with the excel model can be therapeutic (ok, spelling sucks!). Beats having to fiddle and review the legal docs.
Of course best of all is chatting and surfing the net.
Can see you're having a swell-time. -
let me see wat Najib said in his 100th day address
- Fight corruption
- Fight crime
- Acknowledge people are hit hard by recession (Thought last yr someone in Bolehland said no recession to hit M'sia?)
- Rebates for ppl who use NS Highway reguarly (Dunno how it's going to be practically done)
- Improve roads and public tpt (Still can scrap Penang's MRT project)
- Develop Eastern corridor and Sabah/ Sarawak
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Originally posted by sbst275:
let me see wat Najib said in his 100th day address
- Fight corruption
- Fight crime
- Acknowledge people are hit hard by recession (Thought last yr someone in Bolehland said no recession to hit M'sia?)
- Rebates for ppl who use NS Highway reguarly (Dunno how it's going to be practically done)
- Improve roads and public tpt (Still can scrap Penang's MRT project)
- Develop Eastern corridor and Sabah/ Sarawak
The first 2 are so familiar...but not that I blame him.
Rebates for those who use NS highway regularly? How regular?
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Originally posted by SBS2601D:
The first 2 are so familiar...but not that I blame him.
Rebates for those who use NS highway regularly? How regular?
If didn't hear wrongly, is 8 days in 1 mth
Thing is, how to implement if theirs is still e manual labour collection system? LOL
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Originally posted by sbst275:
If didn't hear wrongly, is 8 days in 1 mth
Thing is, how to implement if theirs is still e manual labour collection system? LOL
I wonder....