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by Alan
March 15th, 2024, 6:18 pm
Forum: Politics Forum
Topic: Politicized science
Replies: 94
Views: 40280

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: 198949

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: 40280

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: 7
Views: 319

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: 112172

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: 125
Views: 32291

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: 57575

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: 24430

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: 24430

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: 1681

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: 24430

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: 1681

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: 125
Views: 32291

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)
by Alan
February 23rd, 2024, 7:14 pm
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: Picture says it all
Replies: 21
Views: 1681

Re: Picture says it all

That made me wonder -- can Copilot do captcha's? >> Here is another image question. There are nine images here.  >> Label them 1,2,3 (upper row), 4,5,6 (middle row), and 7,8,9 (bottom row). Using that labelling, which images contain a bus? 1_recaptcha_example.jpg Certainly! Let’s analyze the images ...