Musings on Markets

JANUARY 31, 2025

While there has been chatter about DeepSeek for weeks, it became publicly accessible at the end of last week (ending January 24), and within hours, was drawing rave reviews from people well versed in tech, as it matched beat ChatGPT at many tasks, and even performed better on scientific and math queries.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. Straight out of business school in 1995, I joined Mondelez International as a senior financial analyst for Kraft Foods in the United States.

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 20, 2021

I started to like numbers and did very well in Math. After finishing my master's degree in finance, I joined Microsoft in Redmond as a senior financial analyst for three years before relocating back to Thailand and joining Microsoft Thailand in 2008 as a financial controller for another three years.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. So they’re, all of our analysts are working in niches.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In fact, I was going to be a strategist, financial analyst to work for a bank and write research reports. But I found — you know, I was a financial analyst and I was literally — you know, what we talked about, I was going to go and do that again, I loved looking at companies. RIEDER: A100 percent.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

In academia, he’s known for witty biting papers he writes for such publications as the Financial Analysts Journal.” A lot of our work shows up in great places like the Financial Analysts Journal, in The Journal Of Portfolio Management, which is kind of the nexus between those two. He’s the genius in math.

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