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MiB: Jeffrey Sherman, DoubleLine Deputy CIO

The Big Picture

We discuss how he began as a math major but didn’t want to go into physics, engineering or academia, so finance was the next logical career option. Prior to joining DoubleLine in 2009, Sherman was a senior vice president at TCW Group Inc. He is host of the podcast The Sherman Show and a CFA charter holder.

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

The joy of sets : Why won’t our artistic-literary establishment recognise that there’s mystery, beauty and humanity in maths? Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Jennifer Grancio, CEO of Engine No. (up from 3.2% Prospect ). Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I.

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10 Friday AM Reads

The Big Picture

technology into its search engine. ( Business Insider ) • Stop treating unemployment as a necessary evil to curb inflation : An economist explains why it’s time to rethink popular assumptions about layoffs. ( Businessweek ) • The Super Bowl’s Most Reliable Stock Market Indicator?

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

The Big Picture

What Shift EV does is it takes existing delivery vans and retrofits them in a space of a couple of hours, from internal combustion engine to electric. What do they do with the internal combustion engine and — WENGER: That’s a great question. RITHOLTZ: What are the other engines? RITHOLTZ: A couple of hours?

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Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

The Big Picture

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

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The Self Educating Child

Mr. Money Mustache

Many teachers are already using this system to “flip the classroom”, and my own boy and I used Khan Academy to help him cover second through eighth grade math in only a month. CodeParade – great bits of coding, math, and graphics combined. That’s how efficient video learning can be! Awesome musician too!

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Transcript: Anat Admati

The Big Picture

ANAT ADMATI, PROFESSOR OF FIANCE AND ECONOMICS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So, my journey starts where I took a lot of math. I was good in math and I love the math. So, I was kind of, in my romantic mind when I was in my early 20s, I was going to take but not give back to math, that kind of thing.

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