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by Alan
March 23rd, 2024, 4:36 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: Invariant Trading Indicators
Replies: 1
Views: 155

Re: Invariant Trading Indicators

So, you have done some research, which you don't explain, and are asking forum users to explain to you why it works. Good luck. 
by Alan
March 15th, 2024, 6:18 pm
Forum: Politics Forum
Topic: Politicized science
Replies: 94
Views: 40649

Re: Politicized science

Harvard Tramples the Truth | City Journal (city-journal.org) " I had no inclination to back down. Together with Gupta and Jay Bhattacharya at Stanford, I wrote the  Great Barrington Declaration , arguing for age-based focused protection instead of universal lockdowns, with  specific suggestion...
by Alan
March 15th, 2024, 5:22 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: End of bitcoin?
Replies: 917
Views: 199262

Re: End of bitcoin?

Will be amusing:
Craig Wright is Set to Appear in UK Court for the COPA v Wright Trial
Start Feb 5, running 5 weeks or so

And ... the answer is in:
Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi
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by Alan
March 13th, 2024, 4:11 pm
Forum: Politics Forum
Topic: Politicized science
Replies: 94
Views: 40649

Re: Politicized science

The NIH Sacrifices Scientific Rigor for DEI
subtitle: Its First program pushes institutions to hire medical researchers based on their ideological commitment.
(WSJ Opinion, Mar 12, 2024)
by Alan
March 12th, 2024, 10:51 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Delta Hedging P&L
Replies: 10
Views: 486

Re: Delta Hedging P&L

With no transaction costs and a GBM process, then you should see perfect Black-Scholes' hedging emerging as the hedging frequency increases. That means the hedged position tends to a money market position and the limiting profit should be the risk-free earnings from that, with zero volatility in the...
by Alan
March 12th, 2024, 3:32 pm
Forum: Numerical Methods Forum
Topic: Models for Covid-19
Replies: 508
Views: 112396

Re: Models for Covid-19

German man who deliberately received 217 Covid vaccinations suffered no ill side effects - study

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0306/14363 ... ne-lancet/

Gründlichkeit 


Plus, as bonus, whenever he cuts off his thumb ...
by Alan
March 8th, 2024, 2:30 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: My Dinner with ChatGPT
Replies: 127
Views: 32575

Re: My Dinner with ChatGPT

Very interesting piece from Bloomberg, showing apparent discrimination based on names in AI-assisted HR searches:
OPENAI’S GPT IS A RECRUITER’S DREAM TOOL. TESTS SHOW THERE’S RACIAL BIAS
by Alan
March 2nd, 2024, 6:50 pm
Forum: Forum and Website Bugs and Suggestions
Topic: Site is slow this week?
Replies: 32
Views: 57649

Re: Site is slow this week?

The site is so slow the various "Is the site down?" checks think it is down: tried two -- both said 'down':
downcheck.jpg
by Alan
March 1st, 2024, 5:42 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: guess a country
Replies: 177
Views: 24811

Re: guess a country

An image of a famous artifact. Guess the country where the image resides (not where the artifact is): detail5.jpg I’ll go with France Yes, Auch Cathedral: was not aware. But, apparently they have some very nice art: 481px-Cathédrale_d'Auch_20.jpg [ attachment=1]640px-Vitraux_Cathédrale_d'Auch_13.jp...
by Alan
February 27th, 2024, 4:39 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: guess a country
Replies: 177
Views: 24811

Re: guess a country

Here's the movie version of the artifact:
ark.jpg
definitely Europe, but no one has gotten the correct country yet.
by Alan
February 27th, 2024, 4:34 pm
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: Picture says it all
Replies: 21
Views: 1723

Re: Picture says it all

More interesting, why is there so much reduncancy in the clues? So is the redundancy because this was a visual question given to a machine that needed more data? (I didn't notice the relationship with the loops on each number.) No, I think the redundancy was just a red herring -- to make you think ...
by Alan
February 26th, 2024, 9:15 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: guess a country
Replies: 177
Views: 24811

Re: guess a country

An image of a famous artifact. Guess the country where the image resides (not where the artifact is):
detail5.jpg
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by Alan
February 26th, 2024, 9:13 pm
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: Picture says it all
Replies: 21
Views: 1723

Re: Picture says it all

No -- Copilot failed badly. There are buses in squares 2,3,6,7. The one in 3 is quite tricky. Copilot wasn't even close. 
by Alan
February 26th, 2024, 6:02 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: My Dinner with ChatGPT
Replies: 127
Views: 32575

Re: My Dinner with ChatGPT

Dall-E still can't count:

>> Six bananas on a table and no other bananas in the image.
bananas.jpg
(Credit: DALL-E 3)