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by bearish
January 25th, 2024, 3:55 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Do i need to know everything in time series to work in Quant?
Replies: 13
Views: 1629

Re: Do i need to know everything in time series to work in Quant?

Meh. You definitely need to know something well, and preferably something relevant. It doesn’t have to be time series statistics, nor numerical analysis; it could be the theory and practice of term structure modeling or how to hedge equity derivatives in a rough Heston model. For a little bit of ext...
by bearish
January 23rd, 2024, 1:46 am
Forum: Politics Forum
Topic: Politicized science
Replies: 94
Views: 40649

Re: Politicized science

Much like making an inappropriate sexual remark is not quite as bad as rape, I kind of wish a few more shades of grey were applied when it comes to problems with academic integrity. Sloppy citations don’t bother me nearly as much as when data is falsified outright, as our friends at Data Colada have...
by bearish
January 22nd, 2024, 7:31 pm
Forum: Politics Forum
Topic: You are rich, privately educated and intelligent. So why do you vote Socialist?
Replies: 150
Views: 69921

Re: You are rich, privately educated and intelligent. So why do you vote Socialist?

If this is turning into a discussion of the relative merits of private education rather than socialism, I have more opinions. Like Paul, I’m a product of state schools (deliberately avoiding the ambiguous “public” words here), but paid good money to send my kids to private school. The trade-off seem...
by bearish
January 21st, 2024, 11:12 pm
Forum: Politics Forum
Topic: You are rich, privately educated and intelligent. So why do you vote Socialist?
Replies: 150
Views: 69921

Re: You are rich, privately educated and intelligent. So why do you vote Socialist?

Yes. We can leave the Brexit nonsense aside for now. In the US (aka Trump world), being a socialist means that you are against school shootings, and in favor of basic health care for women, any redress for centuries of racism (including slavery), any kind of respectful treatment of the LGBQ communit...
by bearish
January 21st, 2024, 10:04 pm
Forum: Politics Forum
Topic: You are rich, privately educated and intelligent. So why do you vote Socialist?
Replies: 150
Views: 69921

Re: You are rich, privately educated and intelligent. So why do you vote Socialist?

Your soundbites never make any sense! I can’t argue with that. And I’m not a fan of actual socialism. But if the choice were between brain dead Tory/Republican policies and what they claim to be socialism, well that’s a different matter altogether. At this point you are all supposed to say “that’s ...
by bearish
January 15th, 2024, 11:20 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Genocide.
Replies: 46
Views: 140663

Re: Genocide.

He used to be from Queens (his father made the family money as a slum lord), but these days he is squarely from Palm Beach, FL. There, people apparently adore him, unlike in NYC where he is roundly despised. To paraphrase his comedy act in Iowa eight years ago, he could step out on 5th Avenue and ge...
by bearish
January 15th, 2024, 4:13 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Russia земля борца самбо
Replies: 701
Views: 86450

Re: Russia земля борца самбо

I do find it interesting/impressive that copy/pasting a grainy screenshot into Google Translate renders the result “Russia’s borders don’t end anywhere”
by bearish
January 9th, 2024, 9:34 pm
Forum: Politics Forum
Topic: Trump -- the last 100 days
Replies: 4584
Views: 479782

Re: Trump -- the last 100 days

Orange Jesus!
by bearish
January 7th, 2024, 6:11 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Nouvelles de France
Replies: 2490
Views: 181910

Re: Nouvelles de France

She did not defend her climbing title from last year, but third place is still pretty impressive! Although perhaps slightly overshadowed by Lapierre and Lapalus taking first and third among the men. A big French uphill day! Meanwhile, I verified my suspicion that the father of the dominant winner of...
by bearish
January 6th, 2024, 9:12 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Nouvelles de France
Replies: 2490
Views: 181910

Re: Nouvelles de France

I’ll keep an eye on Delphine Claudel up the monster hill tomorrow
by bearish
January 6th, 2024, 3:02 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Israel, land of milk and honey
Replies: 1107
Views: 130615

Re: Israel, land of milk and honey

I don’t know. I asked ChatGPT to write a poem in the Vogon style on the topic of archives: In the archives' deep and dusty halls, Where time's grip tightens, never stalls, Records ancient, secrets kept, In cobwebbed corners, they have slept. Their faded ink on yellowed page, Echoes of a bygone age, ...
by bearish
January 6th, 2024, 1:28 am
Forum: Politics Forum
Topic: Trump -- the last 100 days
Replies: 4584
Views: 479782

Re: Trump -- the last 100 days

Strictly speaking, this was just for the first two years, and not counting cash discreetly handed over in sealed envelopes. I’m honestly not sure whether it makes a difference whether it was $7.8 million or $780 million? He’s the head of a corrupt crime family. Period.
by bearish
January 5th, 2024, 1:28 am
Forum: Politics Forum
Topic: FSU, Toby Young, Eugenics & Wilmott.com
Replies: 569
Views: 134314

Re: FSU, Toby Young, Eugenics & Wilmott.com

I think you are indeed half right, but she still wrote a dissertation. That borrowed a little too freely from source materials. https://www.businessinsider.com/neri-ox ... 2024-1?amp
by bearish
January 5th, 2024, 12:17 am
Forum: Politics Forum
Topic: FSU, Toby Young, Eugenics & Wilmott.com
Replies: 569
Views: 134314

Re: FSU, Toby Young, Eugenics & Wilmott.com

In a rather hilarious development, Bill Ackman’s wife (Neri Oxman) was just called out for plagiarism in her PhD thesis. Oops! She also evidently created a sculpture for Jeffrey Epstein in exchange for a six figure donation to her lab at MIT, but her husband made some (ultimately unsuccessful) effor...
by bearish
December 31st, 2023, 9:58 pm
Forum: Politics Forum
Topic: FSU, Toby Young, Eugenics & Wilmott.com
Replies: 569
Views: 134314

Re: FSU, Toby Young, Eugenics & Wilmott.com

Oh, and in context, Jew-Haul is funny