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by Collector
July 9th, 2022, 8:51 pm
Forum: Politics Forum
Topic: The vaccines
Replies: 398
Views: 69374

Re: The vaccines

"therefore, no longer based on prevention of infection by neutralizing antibodies, asymptomatic vaccinees abundantly spread highly infectious SC-2  immune escape variants as well as other highly infectious, immunogenically related viruses to other parts of the population. Consequently, in a hig...
by Collector
July 8th, 2022, 8:40 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: News from Outer Space
Replies: 1278
Views: 191194

Re: News from Outer Space

How the James Webb Space Telescope will search for extraterrestrial life Elon just need to get some people to Mars first, then James can hopefully see them, then they can ask for funding to even bigger one (Big Jane) "There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither su...
by Collector
July 7th, 2022, 7:51 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Your rants here
Replies: 1277
Views: 168506

Re: Your rants here

British men no longer will need to change sex (for 5 minutes) when long line at mens room and no line at women toilets UK ministers to make single-sex toilets compulsory in new public buildings  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/03/single-sex-toilets-to-be-compulsory-in-all-new-public-build...
by Collector
July 5th, 2022, 6:05 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Research Mathematicians
Replies: 39
Views: 7304

Re: Research Mathematicians

" Professor James Maynard,  Mathematical Institute , University of Oxford has been awarded a 2022 Fields Medal for his ‘spectacular contributions’ to analytic number theory, ‘which have led to major advances in the understanding of the structure of prime numbers and in Diophantine approximatio...
by Collector
July 4th, 2022, 8:23 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Please write your obituary asap
Replies: 10
Views: 979

Re: Please write your obituary asap

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by Collector
July 4th, 2022, 8:18 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: End of bitcoin?
Replies: 917
Views: 199609

Re: End of bitcoin?

" A simulation has programmed challenges that you can’t avoid and some randomness that just happens by chance. We don’t know which one is which. But it doesn’t matter. We just gotta make the best out of what we have. We still have to take life seriously. But it takes all the pressure away. When...
by Collector
July 4th, 2022, 8:01 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: End of bitcoin?
Replies: 917
Views: 199609

Re: End of bitcoin?

I Believe We Live in a Simulation. (or perhaps many crypto people hope they live in a simulation and that they soon can wake up from the dream). sorry guys this is reality! 
by Collector
July 4th, 2022, 1:45 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: is twitter for mentally ill people?
Replies: 630
Views: 132029

Re: is twitter for mentally ill people?

"R functions is not equivalent to knowing the mathematical theory."

good start for meaning of the  R function (next try to type it in R)
by Collector
July 3rd, 2022, 12:22 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: is twitter for mentally ill people?
Replies: 630
Views: 132029

Re: is twitter for mentally ill people?

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by Collector
June 29th, 2022, 10:09 am
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: "Option Pricing, Risk Premium, and Arbitrage: An Argument for Volatility-Modified Risk-Neutral Prices."
Replies: 71
Views: 26872

Re: "Option Pricing, Risk Premium, and Arbitrage: An Argument for Volatility-Modified Risk-Neutral Prices."

there are risk-free arbitrage, in academia when someone talk about arbitrage they normally (my experience at least, based on limited sample points) talk about risk-free arbitrage.  In some firms I work in when they talked about arbitrage they talked about very close to risk free, same as in academia...
by Collector
June 28th, 2022, 3:06 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: "Option Pricing, Risk Premium, and Arbitrage: An Argument for Volatility-Modified Risk-Neutral Prices."
Replies: 71
Views: 26872

Re: "Option Pricing, Risk Premium, and Arbitrage: An Argument for Volatility-Modified Risk-Neutral Prices."

congratulations on publication!

just glimpsed shortly at it so far, is it mostly based on technë or ëpistemë ?
by Collector
June 28th, 2022, 11:34 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: RIP thread
Replies: 441
Views: 113742

Re: RIP thread

just checked price on some gravestones, Ripoff prices in Norway. (Well we have an old stone for such).  I was thinking of a grave yard for equation project (park), where each stone is inscribed with RIP and the equation (that died, but many still worship)  (import prices much better, even if we hav ...
by Collector
June 27th, 2022, 9:01 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Lazarus probabilities are buried alive!
Replies: 78
Views: 17840

Re: Lazarus probabilities are buried alive!

Shakespeare (Bacon & Co) : Romeo and Juliet: " Juliet used a drug to fake her own death. "  fugu (or more likely a flowery night shade plant)  Laurence gaveJuliet the substance saying: “And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death Thou shalt continue two and forty hours,  And then awa...
by Collector
June 27th, 2022, 8:24 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Lazarus probabilities are buried alive!
Replies: 78
Views: 17840

Re: Lazarus probabilities are buried alive!

"But sometimes they wake. If a Japanese man or woman dies of fugu poison, the family waits a few days before burying them, just in case they wake up."  "Every now and then someone poisoned by fugu is nearly buried alive...describing their own funeral.."  from A Natural History of...
by Collector
June 27th, 2022, 5:48 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Lazarus probabilities are buried alive!
Replies: 78
Views: 17840

Re: Lazarus probabilities are buried alive!

fugu produce this poison to paralyse anyone trying to eat it, but one greedy animal found a way to slay it. Series of  plants produce Hallucinogens, so when you start to eat them you end up sitting with your chip out of control and perhaps even eating your own body parts instead of more of the plan...