mathrando

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by mathrando 5y ago
> They are creating a dollar substitute and basically running a banking and payments business but without the oversight that anyone else doing a similar kind of business would have. You could take that word-for-word from the debate that
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by mathrando 5y ago
I expect better from FT. Tether is very similar to prime money market funds, in both structure and portfolio composition. I guess the Fidelity's of the world aren't keen on competition. https://www.nytimes.com/2008
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by mathrando 5y ago
Why not team up with the ProtonMail people to build a browser extension that verifies and logs javascript sigs/hashes? Corporate clients may like it. Gives them an IOC for the next big supply chain issue. I don't know enough about
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by mathrando 5y ago
Articles like this answer the question, "what if 1920s eugenicists got hold of 1980s magazine relationship tests?" The scary thing is a lot of commercial "people analytics" systems marketed to HR departments, lenders, an
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by mathrando 5y ago
Whether Monte Hall is counter intuitive is a function of how the question is phrased. When you phrase it in a way that underlines the mechanical nature of the host's decision, people get it right. When you phrase it in a way that sugge
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by mathrando 5y ago
> Probably the worst example I've seen first-hand was an entire retail banking loan-approval process There's some real doozies out there. The Reinhart-Rogoff error, which was used to justify imposing austerity on Greece [0]. Th
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by mathrando 5y ago
you're doing it wrong. first you drink all the booze. then you hack all the things. if your investors aren't down with that, they're in the wrong line of work. maybe they should consider haberdashery.
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by mathrando 5y ago
You still need to integrate over x. y|x=c is Gaussian for each c, but there are many such c's in [a,inf]. If you're curious: https://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/1978-32-141/S0025-5718-197...
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by mathrando 5y ago
RNG quality is probably the least of your worries. The curse of dimensionality means you often need a huge number of samples to guarantee a useful level of precision. Additionally, many quantities you'd like to know come up in Monte