Colin Swaney

PhD Finance / University of Iowa

I’m a quantitative researcher living and working in the Greater New York area. I like building beautiful and intelligent things, and I write this blog in my spare time to share my obsession with machine learning.

What is…

… in my podcast library?

  • Open Yale history podcasts (Ancient Greek History, Early Middle Ages, and Early Modern England)
  • The Axe Files
  • The Bugle
  • In Our Time
  • BBC Friday Night Comedy
  • This American Life

… on my heavy rotation list?

  • Moana and Mary Poppins Soundtrack
  • Plays Well With Others by Lera Lynn
  • Full English by Mat Williams
  • Young in All the Wrong Ways by Sara Watkins
  • In Case You Missed It: 15 Years of Dualtone by Various Artists

… on my desk?

  • Week old Financial Times Weekend Edition
  • This week’s Science journal (interesting article about experience replay here)
  • “The Space Issue” of MIT Technology Review
  • Glass of Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Mesa Verde mug, LED lamp, a few hard drives, and a bunch of random papers and pens

… at the top of my reading list?

  • Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English
  • A Brain for Numbers: The Biology of the Number Instinct
  • The Gene: An Intimate History
  • Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement
  • No Longer at Ease, Things Fall Apart
  • Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece