srs
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
I should bring this p-set to occupy wall street
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
i see that problem #3 is 10th grade level
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
posting to ilx, otoh
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
so is #4
if you know zero factorial is equal to 1 , so are #1 and #2
hope you have a scientific calculator handy
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
get ready to PLUG and CHUG
he is a little too impressed w/ himself
― remy bean, Thursday, 6 October 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
I'm getting more 'aloof'
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
I'm 3/4 way through the first lecture.
How far back am I?
― Mark G, Saturday, 8 October 2011 09:09 (twelve years ago) link
not far, lecture 3 is for next Monday
― iatee, Saturday, 8 October 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
Okay I loaded up the ipod with first 4 in case I forget again next week! Will have a very educational weekend.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Saturday, 8 October 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
each one (so far) is better than the last. i found the first one a big chore.
― similar to "dinobear" (remy bean), Saturday, 8 October 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
will we really need one thread per week? or is it better to keep it all in one.
― iatee, Sunday, 9 October 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
#1 was pretty familiar stuff to me. I did Econ O-level back in 1977, on the face of it not much is different, just the way it's done is 'nothing like it now'...
So, shall indeed continue.
― Mark G, Monday, 10 October 2011 09:09 (twelve years ago) link
anyone watch lecture 3 yet? "why do people hate finance workers? idgi" seems sorta quaint in 2011. also in 2008 tho.
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
that bit in the first lecture where he talks about the questionable morality of being a financial markets profiteer was interesting in how ambivalent he was--"you'll have to sort of...decide for yourself."
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, realistically, like 75% of the the people in that classs want to go into finance
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
so I mean maybe OWS signs woulda been kinda dickish
but the extent that he defends the financial industry in lecture 3 is kinda amazing, curious how he's giving this lecture today, ya know?
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
nah def
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
OKAY have ipod, have headphones, am listening to lect 1 and will catch up.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
lecture 2 will be kinda confusing w/o the chalkboard
but it will be kinda confusing w/ the chalkboard, I'd just zone out for those parts unless you want to go over the math
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
Oh I have video too, just not much going on r now.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
Done lecture 2.
Onto three?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 09:02 (twelve years ago) link
Okay I'm on the last leg of Lesson 3 and...I don't like this class. It's boring and SLOW and then when it's not SLOW, it's about MATH. Fucking A, this guy is the WORST speaker, I put the lecture on headphones for my entire commute and I feel like I only learned...2 or 3 things?? Over AN HOUR. We could have done moral hazard and risk management in 12 minutes.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Thursday, 20 October 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
I don't begrudge the time, exactly, but I am very very bored.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Thursday, 20 October 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno, if this is as complex as it gets, I'm so getting a degree at some point.
― Mark G, Friday, 21 October 2011 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
ilx downtime ruined the schedule of these things. what are people on? I'm on week 4. for both classes.
― iatee, Friday, 21 October 2011 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
I just finished finance lecture 3 and started 4 and then turned it off. I know we were supposed to discuss things and have questions but by the time I get home at night and to a computer, the lecture was 10 hours ago.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Friday, 21 October 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
Well, I got to the end of 3 lectures and own 2 books, dammit.
― Mark G, Monday, 24 October 2011 08:23 (twelve years ago) link
"The real financial technology that works to eliminate risk is that which works to spread them out, to pool them & share them among many different people. The ideal that theory suggests--the perfect financial system--would have all of our risks pooled completely. Nobody suffers alone. If anything happens to me and my livelihood, it's spread out over the whole world."
huh.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 24 October 2011 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
That's the theory.
― Mark G, Monday, 24 October 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
The audio is so damn low, I've got everything turned up all the way and I have a hard time hearing.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 24 October 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
lol I still haven't started in on this yet
it's likely going to have to wait until I am done with immediate gigs, so like 2 weeks
― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
catching up can be done pretty quickly
laurel, lecture 4 is another one that would be nonsense without the visuals
I would ignore the early math and just try to understand the graph used in the lecture
― iatee, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, October 24, 2011 10:54 AM Bookmark
Yeah, I remember this line was real mind lightning for me
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 11:05 (twelve years ago) link
howzit?
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 January 2012 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
lol I never started this
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
I'm willing to keep it up if there is interest
― iatee, Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
I mostly got sidetracked from going to OWS every night
― iatee, Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
so anyone else want to keep this one up?
― iatee, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
I'm on week 5
after j17 i might be back in
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
I'm on week 5 now!
OK, slow. But I got a new phone with better sound and screen.
― Mark G, Monday, 25 June 2012 12:08 (eleven years ago) link
I highly recommend listening to the one with guest-lecturer Carl Icahn just so you can hear him talking about how the execs of most companies are idiot frat boys who didn't rock the boat.
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 June 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
Think that's 7. Soon come.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 10:04 (eleven years ago) link
i'm doing the yale one now.
standford also doing something similar this semester http://venturelab.stanford.edu/finance. sounds like fewer lectures but more substantial problems.
― caek, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 11:55 (eleven years ago) link
I worked through loads of these, but managed to lose most of the lectures I downloaded.
― Mark G, Sunday, 12 November 2017 12:15 (six years ago) link