These are works in various stages of progress. I don't consider them complete but the latest version of what I have written. Included are writings on many different subjects: a business case study here, a rant on Chinese orthography there.  Some of the more serious articles were written for or eventually became course material for professors I've had.  Most of the things though were written just because I felt it necessary to put it into words.  The main point of these playful exercises was to have fun and cultivate the spirit of inquiry - even if it comes at the expense of sleep and real coursework.

On Chinese

What's in a Name?
What's wrong with Chinese orthography?
Spell-check for Chinese: viable methods
Dialects or not? Another look at the regional Chinese languages

Business Ethics

On the case of Guidant Corporation
The practices of the global lysine industry

Human Rights Practices and Return on Equity

On Probabilistic Modeling and Mixing Distributions

Modeling customer buying behavior for prepaid cell phone service provider Tracfone
An application of timing models to cable subscription behavior

Jinology

Defining wuxia through the works of Jinyong