Beaucoup de personnes se méfient de l’intelligence artificielle. Elles ne comprennent pas comment les ordinateurs peuvent apprendre et prendre des décisions intelligentes. Pourtant, les principes fondamentaux de l’IA sont à la portée de tous. Le Machine learning (apprentissage automatique) et […]
Author: Lucas
“Lessons learned from the night shift at Lazard in New York”
Back in the early days of the millennium, shortly after the internet bubble burst and before 9/11, I took a job at a French investment bank. I worked the night shift as a project assistant for Lazard Frères at their […]
Bank of America had good and bad news on bonuses
Bank of America announced its bonuses on Friday. There was good and bad news for people who work there. The good news, reported already by the likes of CNBC, is that Bank of America is making extra payments to employees earning below $500k. […]
A dark year of sickness, reckoning, loss — and periodic bits of light
Scholars tell of muddling through, insights gained, small wins, and a rescue pup named RBG. Like countless others, members of the Harvard faculty have been finding their way through the difficult days of 2020, planning Zoom wedding receptions, socially distancing […]
How Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are using quantum computing
As we’ve reported before, banks have been busy building teams of quantum computing researchers. Today, the heads of those teams at Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan presented their work at the Q2B Practical Quantum Computing conference. Goldman Sachs has recently assembled a “full team dedicated […]
What’s the difference between a Data Scientist and a Quant?
When I started working in finance, nearly two decades ago, the trading floor was full of ‘Quants’. Usually with Phds, these erudite employees were extremely clever but for some reason somewhat undervalued and underpaid. Since then things have changed, and if you […]
The best bars in Beverly Hills
Pinkies up, folks. The best bars in Beverly Hills are glitzy, glamorous and—let’s be honest—probably in a hotel. Welcome to the 90210, a neighborhood where steakhouses and swanky Italian restaurants abound. But cocktail bars? They’re few and far between. If you’re looking for a great […]
What’s next for the world’s largest economies? By The Harvard Gazette
The Ash Center sat down with Edward Cunningham and Philip Jordan, authors of Our Path to “New Normal” in Employment? Sobering Clues from China and Recovery Scores for U.S. Industry, a new report examining China’s post COVID-19 economic recovery in an effort to better […]
Jefferies’ CEO slams the banker who sent the ‘3am email’
No one knows who it was at PJT Partners that sent the viral email asking why analysts hadn’t ‘turned’ his reviews at 3am in the morning while pointing out that he only sleeps five hours a night, but chances are that he’s […]
Vaccine skeptics threaten Europe’s bid to beat coronavirus
From Bill Gates to Angela Merkel, experts and political leaders think the only way to return to normal after the pandemic is to develop a vaccine and immunize billions of people against coronavirus. But as the world races to develop a […]