Richard Smith

Three Days of Smith

Ellis Nadler's Sketchbook (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009

I went through a Richard Smith phase for about three days. Coloured pencil on paper 26cm x 19cm. Click to enlarge.

The Big FAIL and modern finance theory

Corrente (Free subscription) | yesterday

Richard Smith reviews a book by one of Taleb's advocates at Yves's place . Here's a juicy morsel: Chapter 2: modern finance theory is a crock, peddled by charlatans at business schools who have managed to seal themselves off from the usual empirical tests of a theory. I’ll admit I don’t see what logical point there is in attacking the character of business school teachers...

Guest Post: Review of Pablo Triana's "Lecturing Birds on Flying"

naked capitalism (Free subscription) | yesterday

Submitted by Richard Smith : This is the Black Swan gospel according to Triana. Taleb endorses it in a characteristically incendiary and intemperate foreword. He does come out all guns blazing, and you just have to go with that. Or chuck a glass of water over him, if he’s in range, I suppose. A quick recap for anyone who has spent the last two years in a coma: Taleb put together...

Sol.illaquists Of Sound Ready Summer Tour

HipHopDX.com (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

... @ M Room 09.01 – Washington DC @ DC 909.02 – Ashville @ Stella09.03 – Atlanta @ 529Reported by Richard Smith.

Your computer is on its way – by kayak, says adventurer

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

Adventurer Richard Smith, from Uphall, in West Lothian, is heading for the Northern Lights to visit Inuit people and give them computers to link children with pupils in Scotland.The 37-year-old, who was in the Special Boat Service and has a PhD iADVERTISEMENTn astrophysics, and his travelling companion, explorer Craig Matheson from Bo'ness, will paddle 500km around the coast of the country...

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Your computer is on its way – by kayak, says adventurer

Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

Adventurer Richard Smith, from Uphall, in West Lothian, is heading for the Northern Lights to visit Inuit people and give them computers to link children with pupils in Scotland.The 37-year-old, who was in the Special Boat Service and has a PhD iADVERTISEMENTn astrophysics, and his travelling companion, explorer Craig Matheson from Bo'ness, will paddle 500km around the coast of the country...

Why Deeds Are Tricky - Indiana Joint Tenancy Case

Indiana Civil & Business Lawyer (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009

Screw them up and big trouble and Court reverses joint tenancy interest ruling has the latest example: In Janice and Burdette Ramer v. Betty Smith, No. 57A04-0804-CV-202, Betty and Richard Smith executed a warranty deed conveying a tract of land to Betty's daughter, Janice, and her husband, Burdette Ramer, who had begun constructing a home on the land with the help of Richard....