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Re:The AI sell-off compared to well-known stock market crashes by lifeisloving on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:48PM (#50401712)
It doesn't fit any normal distribution actually.
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Re:The AI sell-off compared to well-known stock market crashes by ViscountPenguin on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:51PM (#50401724)
Normal as in "typical", not as in "Central Limit Theorem".

Wiener processes aren't a completely terrible model for markets though.

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Re:The AI sell-off compared to well-known stock market crashes by paulpauper on Saturday November 07, 2026 @01:11AM (#50402098)
I think it's a fat tail or jump diffusion process. There is a ton of literature about this over the past 30 years.
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