I had a lot of fun yesterday making a brief one-hour presentation to about a class of Raffles Institution students. These students are in a special program that allows them to pick an area they are curious about and attend talks in between academic semesters, so the students I was exposed to had already determined that they are interested in Finance. In short, RI exceeded my expectations of just how smart they were. They were silent after the presentation, but then the questions starting coming out after a moment of hesitation. All the classic moves of a thoughtful and conscientious crowd. At least one question gave me the impression that the student might actually know a bit about Mean-Variance optimization. What was equally interesting was not so much my talk but the reaction from social media on the talk I was about to give. The reaction was not saltiness...