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My programming life

I was 12 years old when I decided to quit my musical studies and start BASIC language programming. However, it was only a six month course and I didn’t carry on with the following levels because my parents didn’t want to support it. It wasn’t until 3 years later that …

Instant Forecast

Now that Google has made us used to everything 'instant' (I don't even like instant coffee) we know anyone with a SOA algorithm and piece of hardware/software should be able to instantly predict. And I thought that 'nowcasting' was too shorter term! Not to mention that one shouldn't be confusing …

Lecturing OR

I have to admit I never though I would be lecturing an operations research related subject. However, it is with great pleasure that last term I was able to lecture Econometrics with computer assistance (we used Gretl, which is open source) to undergraduate level. This term I have started to …