Writer and Professor Emeritus of Financial Engineering at Columbia University
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Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian
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Models Behaving Badly
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The Volatility Smile
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My Life as a Quant
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Why Is This Interesting? – The Tetragrammaton Edition
A single name–Bjork or Madonna–is grand. A single name with its own name is even grander.
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One theory for the origin of ten-
nis's convoluted points system is that scores were originally kept with a clock. Each player's hand would move a 1/4 turn with each point won, from 16 to 30 to 45 (later … changed to 40), before hitting the hour when the game was won.
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Terence Tao put it plainly: there is no evidence that LLMs exhibit genuine creativity.
Yes, they have solved some Erdős problems. But these are low-hanging fruit, questions that attracted little attention and that yield once the right existing techniques are applied. That is not
There are people I know to whom I want to say oh my God, don’t you ever read anything at all, but they could say back to me, Jesus Christ, don’t you ever listen to anything at all?
“What kind of love is not, insomesense, transference? We all project oneach other withthe magic lanterns of our pasts, fall inlove with the images we create&then feel crushing disappointment when reality intervenes. Where doesthe internal world end& a shared world begin?”- Granta