I want to talk about the similarities between China and France. Having lived in Paris for almost two months this summer, I developed a strong feeling that these two countries are, in surprisingly many ways, so similar to each other.
History teaches us about asset pricing volatility
Recently by chance I came across a paper (see Reference section) titled The boats that did not sail: Asset price volatility in a natural experiment. It grabbed my attention because it proposed a very creative way of applying approaches in natural science to the field of finance. This paper studied capital markets with very long information delay:…
What is cloud?
I want to talk about cloud. Everyone seems to have heard about it, but not everyone understand what it means. In my opinion, the essence of cloud is resource aggregation, and the two pillars making it possible are the ability to coordinate large-scale resources, and the division of resource’s ownership and usage.
What does a PM do?
Since the beginning of my summer internship as a PM at Microsoft, I found so many people in the tech business wondering what PMs do, interestingly many PMs among them. Because this confusion is so common, there are discussions on the definition of a PM role across Microsoft. Having been a part of these discussions, I have gotten closer to…
No more IM… more IM
It has been a marathon, with extra sprint by the end of the finish line. In the last week of March, my teammates and I worked hard enough to pretend to live like real investment managers, or to quote Professor Hammami, “60 hours A WEEK!”, to polish and wrap up our project for FINE 441 “Investment Management”…
Ongoing noncoding projects
I am caught up in a few super cool projects that, surprising to myself, don’t involve coding at all.
Internship talk at McGill CSSA
It is my pleasure to be invited to share my opinions on applying to internships in the field of computer science. Although this talk is in Chinese, an outline in English is provided here for the convenience of the audience. Check out the outline