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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.
I apologise for questioning if you read the comments.
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).
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?