This piece really has no new information in it, so if you’re looking for that, you can stop reading here. Instead, it’s for Anglophiles. Observers of British culture. The BBC recently posted rather prominently a piece pondering the tragedy of the human condition wistfully, as it so often does. Well, that’s not quite what the article was about. Actually, it’s rather hard to tell what the article is about! BBC begins by saying that those guys on Wall Street use algorithms and financial models—and one model in particular, it tells us in the first paragraph—”helped to blow up…