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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing? by napoleon_thepig on Thursday May 12, 2022 @04:28PM (#31359784)
This is just... wrong, to put it mildly.

When it comes to serious financial modeling in big firms, everything from PDEs and stochastic calculus to cutting edge forecasting models and deep learning is fair game.

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing? by logifail on Thursday May 12, 2022 @04:36PM (#31359873)
> fair game

Ummm, not really. If it were readily predictable, then <ooops> it actually couldn't be predictable.

We simply can't all be making money all the time.

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