Thanks to Paul Kedrosky for pointing us towards this really fascinating and rare interview with Ed Thorpe who was profiled in the new book “The Quants”. Thorpe was the first true quant and an enormously successful gambler and hedge fund manager. He covers everything from beating casinos at their own game to the financial crisis, the role quants played in the downturn and even his own desire to be cryogenically frozen. He even provides his personal outlook and his worries that the return of “business as usual” on Wall Street means the next big crash is inevitable :
Source: NPR
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