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Re:Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles
on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @10:45AM (#49084773)
It does! Very dramatic part of the book.
Re:CEO of Web Summit tech conference resigns over Israel comments
on Sunday October 22, 2023 @12:44PM (#37976927)
I apologise for questioning if you read the comments.
Re:CEO of Web Summit tech conference resigns over Israel comments
on Sunday October 22, 2023 @12:05PM (#37976570)
Did you read his comments? I would think it’s more cosmopolitan to support the civilians of both Israel and Palestine than just Israel. It’s not like he showed support for Hamas.
Re:FTX Balance Sheet
on Sunday November 13, 2022 @02:49AM (#33580951)
It’s 2.2 billion dollars - but it’s using fully diluted value rather than circulating supply market cap.
Re:Crypto.com Halts Solana USDC and USDT Withdrawals
on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @04:53PM (#33538461)
It's absolutely more of a reflection on crypto.com than the solana blockchain (which is functioning normally).
Re:On the supposed “nihilism” of the Mango Markets arbitrageur
on Monday October 17, 2022 @02:10AM (#33230251)
Unfortunately in crypto transaction limits can be easily bypassed (send more transactions or spin up more accounts).
Some good risk controls suggested here though: https://medium.com/@Austerity_Sucks/thoughts-on-110m-mango-m...
Re:Expanding access to the future of work with crypto payouts
on Thursday September 22, 2022 @10:40PM (#32947371)
Issued by Circle
Re:Vitalik: Ethereum Merge Just Finalized
on Friday September 16, 2022 @02:21AM (#32862746)
Solana has a higher nakamoto coefficient than ethereum. It’s faster due to higher base validator requirements and technical improvements (such as proof of history, etc). Which makes sense as it’s a newer chain.
Re:Gaussian Processes, not quite for dummies
on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @10:20AM (#20995405)
What would you use to solve the system? Iterative methods or gradient descent even?
Re:Actuarial science ranked as most valuable college major
on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @03:55PM (#17962768)
A good proportion (often all) of C-level insurance executives were actuaries that moved up the ranks. I would say it has quite good advancement opportunities.
Re:Actuarial science ranked as most valuable college major
on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @03:52PM (#17962742)
Absolutely, great points.
I think there could be scope to use ML on the pricing side however, while leaving the reserving models explainable to regulators.
Re:Actuarial science ranked as most valuable college major
on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @11:40AM (#17960704)
To offer a dissenting opinion, I have found stimulating work in actuary - having worked in economic scenario generation and market risk modelling.
But I have also had actuarial work that was closer to accounting than I would have liked. Certainly you have to pick your roles carefully - which is perhaps only feasible in large markets.
Re:I wandered off and built an IDE
on Friday April 06, 2018 @10:12AM (#16773347)
@anakic
I have used excel as a data source using VBA before so one problem I had there that I'm curious how you approached was how to automatically determine data types? IIRC the ODBC engine in VBA scans a set amount of rows to guess. Are you doing anything different?