Monthly Archives: September 2014
$BBY.L – Balfour Beatty – trading update disappoints
Shares in heavy construction firm BBY (Balfour Beatty) fell 15.3% to 190.50p today after releasing a disappointing trading update. The Independent reports (http://is.gd/cXp4KD): “it warned of a new £75 million black hole in its UK profits and called on accountant … Continue reading
TATE, TSCO, ASC
The stock market has been very interesting this year, and even large-cap shares have been vulnerable. There’s no such thing as a safe share. TATE (Tate and Lyle) issued a profit warning, with supply chain issues, weather affecting corn plant … Continue reading
Lame joke: A physicist, mathematician and engineer …
It might be unknown by many of you that I have a PhD in mathematics and work in the Oil & Gas industry. After all these years the latter field, I am actually trying to gain some knowledge of Oil … Continue reading
Simplification of defuzzification in Fuzzy Logic
I have just noticed that my article on Datalog has had far more hits than my articles normally do. The unit conversion program arose because I was interested in another problem: preparing sets of accounts and investment track records. I … Continue reading
Logic programming example: unit conversion using Datalog
Logic programming can reduce your code size, and make deductions based on facts. I’ll illustrate this using pyDatalog, a Datalog implementation in Python 3, to create a unit conversion program. I provide it wil some basic facts about how many … Continue reading
#encfs – easy userspace file encryption on Linux
BLUF: encfs provides unfussy user-level mount/unmount of an encrypted directory that can be migrated across machines. Ah, encfs, where have you been all my life? I have been storing passwords in Keepassx. It is an excellent cross-platform password manager, but … Continue reading
PDF on 2-stage growth DCF calculation explanation
If you have been following my posts on 2-stage DCFs, you may be interested in a PDF that I have written that explains where all the formulae come from. I intend to write more in the article, but it stands … Continue reading
