Ho John Lee’s Weblog

• 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More! - ReadWriteWeb
  (tags: startups entrepreneurship business howto lists management)
• The Information Commons
  An approach for turning the web into a distributed database
  (tags: database metadata api webservices)
• Open Interest Configuration - Schaeffers
  Tool for charting the current open options contract configuration.
  (tags: stock option graph investing tools)
• Goodbye to All That
  Andrew Sullivan commentary on Barack Obama’s post-baby-boomer candidacy
  (tags: 2008 us president election politics society culture trends)
• Wolves.Ldk
  Fraud or no fraud? And by who? A look at recent rading in LDK Solar, negative PR and analyst calls, allegations by former employee Charlie Situ, and who stands to gain.
  (tags: ldk chinese solar stock investing risk management fraud manipulation trading options culture)

• FORTUNE: Big Tech Turning an idea farm into a hit factory
  On Prith Banerjee, new director of HP Laboratories, and a plan to get more bang for its research buck
  (tags: hpq research investment technology innovation business management siliconvalley culture)
• Main Page - Galbijim
  English-language wiki of useful info on living and working in Korea
  (tags: korea travel seoul culture)
• :: KOREA FOCUS ::
  Online journal of the Korea Foundation
  (tags: korea asia media news culture)

• An Examiner’s Guide to Problem Bank Identification, Rehabilitation, and Resolution (PDF)
  US Treasury/OCC handbook on identifying banks under stress and cleaning up large failures.
  (tags: subprime mortgage derivatives banking crisis systemic risk management government treasury policy)
• OCC’s Quarterly Report on Bank Derivatives Activity - Second Quarter 2007 (PDF)
  Top 5 banks (JPM BAC C WB HBC) accounted for 97% of the total amount, 80% of trading revenues, and 88% of net credit exposure as of 2Q07.
  (tags: subprime mortgage derivatives banking crisis systemic risk management markets investing trading)
• OCC Survey of Credit Underwriting Practices - October 2007 (PDF)
  Survey of 78 largest US banks for the 12 months ending March 2007, with graphs for the past several years of bank underwriting trends.
  (tags: subprime mortgage derivatives banking crisis systemic risk management markets trends)
• The Twice Shy Entrepreneur
  Does older and wiser = too conservative for a venture startup? Assorted comments ensue.
  (tags: siliconvalley startup culture entrepreneurship vc internet web history)

• Straight Talk on the Mortgage Mess from an Insider
  Note from a California mortgage broker, with extensive comments from readers on the home finance market.
  (tags: california realestate finance housing subprime mortgage economy markets investing culture)

• BBC NEWS | Business | The US sub-prime crisis in graphics
  A concise illustrated overview of the US home mortgage finance system, trends in subprime security pricing, and major bank exposure.
  (tags: economics finance investing housing mortgage subprime)
• What the Google Intranet Looks Like
  An illustrated look at internal online applications at Google.
  (tags: google office productivity corporate culture collaboration organization technology)

Videos like these would have been handy in my student days. I remember wrestling with hand drawings of transformations and mappings at one point. I should look for some on vector curl and tensors, there are probably some great animations around now.

• Simons at Renaissance Cracks Code, Doubling Assets
  Profile of Jim Simons, mathematician and founder of quantitative fund Renaissance Technologies.
  (tags: quantitative finance hedgefund markets technology math)