About 5 years ago the first post in UnRisk Insight was first set free into the world: the introduction of the UnRiskverse and the evolutionary approach - that still drives UnRisk development. A summary of the principles can be found here).
Post 555: Interest Rate Models - from SDE to PDE
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It was the beginning of an exciting journey. We discussed more, wrote more, explained more, learned more - not only in the blog.
The UnRisk Academy was established and after Michael Aichinger and Andreas Binder wrote the book A Workout in Computational Finance, live workouts became an Academy reference class.
The most popular is not always the best?
The blog is read all over the world and starting with a few page visits we enjoy now about 5000 per month. The reason? More are writing, we strive for publishing each work day, try to present posts in a rhythm and present more knowledge details.
From the all time hit list:
15 Years of Adaptive Integration 2012
Diffusion and Osmotic Pressure 2013
Skateboarding and Computational Finance 2013
VaR of the Jungle 2011
Black vs. Bachelier 2013
The Big Joke of Big Data 2011
In 2014
The series about The City Swap
The Black Karasinski Calibration Problem
The series on models, like The Jump Diffusion Models
seem to be candidates for an all time high ...
As I personally reflect today on these 5 blogging years, what is amazing to me is how much it changed my working life.
And the blog journey continues ….