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Re: Is it over?

February 22nd, 2018, 11:54 am

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What is six times nine?
Pass.
 
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Re: Is it over?

February 22nd, 2018, 11:59 am

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What is six times nine?
Pass.
Admittedly, the author himself is on record stating that he does not make jokes in base 13.
 
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Re: Is it over?

February 22nd, 2018, 12:03 pm

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What is six times nine?
Actually, 6 X 9 == 9 X 6 because multiplication is commutative, or in Norge, Abelian.
 
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Re: Is it over?

February 22nd, 2018, 12:07 pm

I was merely quoting from the book...
 
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Re: Is it over?

February 22nd, 2018, 12:37 pm

I was merely quoting from the book...
Ah. I tried reading the 'book' but I fell asleep half-way through. What's he on about?  If you (want to) remember the 60s means you weren't there :D
 
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Re: Is it over?

February 22nd, 2018, 1:06 pm

Were TARNs, range accruals, snowblades and many others with forgotten names intelectually challenging? Shaping payoffs was just boring. The problem is not with products but with us.
Well then what about using QF modeling techniques on human behavior?

What if every financial instrument is really a derivative who's underlying is humanity?
Do we have a BS of human behaviour? A single formula describing rigorously the most important factors of human behaviour? If not it's carving of the air.
Single formula? LOL! Only children need things reduced to a single formula.
 
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Re: Is it over?

February 22nd, 2018, 1:17 pm

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What is six times nine?
Actually, 6 X 9 == 9 X 6 because multiplication is commutative, or in Norge, Abelian.
There is much more to this, 69  (look into ancient drawings, and dont read the modern crap historian interpreters, there was good geometers also back in time, they knew their math. ).  

It is not over, this is the (new) beginning! 
 
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Re: Is it over?

February 22nd, 2018, 9:06 pm

 
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Re: Is it over?

February 22nd, 2018, 10:28 pm

That was apparently not about 1969, since he was 9 at the time
 
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Re: Is it over?

February 23rd, 2018, 9:11 am

That was apparently not about 1969, since he was 9 at the time
So, you are a Bryan Adams' fan?
 
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Re: Is it over?

February 23rd, 2018, 12:20 pm

That was apparently not about 1969, since he was 9 at the time
So, you are a Bryan Adams' fan?
Eh, he’s OK, although wouldn’t make my top ten list.
 
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Re: Is it over?

February 23rd, 2018, 5:09 pm

That was apparently not about 1969, since he was 9 at the time
So, you are a Bryan Adams' fan?
Eh, he’s OK, although wouldn’t make my top ten list.
Jahn Teigen?
 
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Re: Is it over?

February 23rd, 2018, 6:28 pm

So, you are a Bryan Adams' fan?
Eh, he’s OK, although wouldn’t make my top ten list.
Jahn Teigen?
that famous quant? 
 
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Re: Is it over?

February 23rd, 2018, 8:42 pm


Eh, he’s OK, although wouldn’t make my top ten list.
Jahn Teigen?
that famous quant? 
OTM 
Speaking of Bobby Socks, I know "Eddy from Norway" who was singing in the backing group. He is now a taxi driver in Bergen. Do you know him?
 
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Re: Is it over?

February 23rd, 2018, 11:12 pm


Eh, he’s OK, although wouldn’t make my top ten list.
Jahn Teigen?
that famous quant? 
This in not for your benefit, but there may be youngsters around here who did not watch the 1978 Eurovision final in real time, and missed this spectacle:  
It is not entirely shocking that it was the first performance to score zero points in the modern scoring system. What is shocking is that it topped the Norwegian hit lists for weeks afterwards.