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The White House Blocked My Report on Climate Change and National Security(nytimes.com)
54 points by floki999 7y ago|1 comments
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by floki999 7y ago
The writing style of this book i.e. rigorous math notation and proposition/proof presentation is going to put off the great majority of potential CS and ML readers. At almost 2000 pages it sure makes a great door-stop though.
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by floki999 7y ago
Gimme you house keys Billy, I promise, I’ll be good.
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by floki999 7y ago
That’s the tricky bit - for anyone who is technical amongst a non-technical team, where you can’t expect or rely colleagues to deal with the environment. Same goes for Jupiter Noteboks and similar solutions. This is so why, in my opinion, E
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by floki999 7y ago
Agree about the regulators’ (lack of) abilities. Catastrophe risk models, however, shouldn’t be be lumped together with the types of financial engineering/quant models used in capital markets. The latter are generally very theoretical,
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by floki999 7y ago
Check out the ‘LMX spiral’ ..
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by floki999 7y ago
Taleb loves to obfuscate simple ideas and arguments
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by floki999 7y ago
Luckily Nassim Taleb has stayed away from this market - if anyone knows about tail risk and uncertainty it’s property catastrophe reinsurers.
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by floki999 7y ago
The risk models are updated with new science and current risk data on a regular basis, but yes, climate risk is a worry to the industry. The models do allow for climate risk scenarios e.g. by tweaking the frequency/severity of land-fal
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by floki999 7y ago
Insurance and reinsurance are highly regulated businesses, where firms have to hold reserves commensurate with the risk they are taking. While the models have limitations, they are good enough to evaluate capital requirement. In the last 20
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by floki999 7y ago
Without the insurance and reinsurance industry, we’d be a lot worse off.
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by floki999 7y ago
Havn’t read the paper in detail yet, but the authors’ understanding of the property catastrophe market is rather simplistic. I’ve traded this risk as an investor for fifteen years and have used the risk models that are used by all firms in
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by floki999 7y ago
It looks great, and I understand the use-case. But the downside I see is that while Quark is lightweight it still has a ton of dependencies. It still doesn’t allow you to easily share your dashboard with other internal users (unless they ha
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by floki999 7y ago
Great overview - thanks for putting together.
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by floki999 7y ago
First off, where did it get its hands on 1M resumes to train their analytics? Looks like yet another underhanded way of getting hold of personal information on a massive scale. If it isn’t the case, then address this upfront on the top of y
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by floki999 7y ago
A UI library which doesn't present a visual example of its capabilities on its landing page is missing the point. The underlying technology stack is secondary.
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by floki999 7y ago
Popular rally car, the 4L.
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by floki999 7y ago
Great car, the French Honda Civic of its day. Turn a corner a bit too fast and the doors opened.
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by floki999 7y ago
Can't disagree more. Learning a spoken language is much more than picking-up a communication tool - it opens a world of culture and thought that is bigger than the language itself. Yes, the same can be said of mathematics, and both are
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by floki999 7y ago
1/5. I don’t know C.
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by floki999 7y ago
I’ve been involved in the trading of weather and catastrophe risk (I.e. trading instruments such as bonds or derivatives where the payout is linked to weather parameters, or insurance losses caused by natural hazards such as hurricanes&#x2F
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by floki999 7y ago
Great to see several articles on Basic and Visual Basic in the space of a few days. I think VB and VB.Net (Pre WPF) as well as the ubiquitous VBA were very popular with that population of coders that is often ignored I.e. folks whose primar
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by floki999 7y ago
Nice. The Excel/Python combo is very powerful. Microsoft has kept Excel in the dark ages, and could have implemented such better analytics than it currently offers. If they could integrate Python in lieu of VBA and make it compatible w
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by floki999 7y ago
Interesting but hardly novel. In certain fields, ‘end users’ have routinely employed probabilistic tools via Excel or other spreadsheets for decades. Wider adoption has been limited due to the knowledge base that is required to either (a) c
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by floki999 7y ago
Very good, related, article in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/07/opinion/sunda...
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by floki999 7y ago
Microsoft wants to spoon-feed beginner Python programmers their way, via their ‘community’. It really is unnecessary. In time, this will lead to classic Microsoft lock-in or dependency. I’ve seen this happen time and time again. As much as
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by floki999 7y ago
Based on experience, I’d rather install my own Python environment than rely on Microsoft’s suggestion of what I should install. This is Microsoft folks - there is >always< a catch.
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by floki999 7y ago
Microsoft has zero respect for its users. Windows is now a layered cake of CPU-hogging crap.
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by floki999 7y ago
Fantastic idea
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by floki999 7y ago
A great attitude to have - especially in the early days of a company when it develops culture.

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