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> They are creating a dollar substitute and basically running a banking and payments business but without the oversight that anyone else doing a similar kind of business would have…

I expect better from FT. Tether is very similar to prime money market funds, in both structure and portfolio composition. I guess the Fidelity's of the world aren't keen on competi…

Why not team up with the ProtonMail people to build a browser extension that verifies and logs javascript sigs/hashes? Corporate clients may like it. Gives them an IOC for the next…

Articles like this answer the question, "what if 1920s eugenicists got hold of 1980s magazine relationship tests?" The scary thing is a lot of commercial "people analytics" systems…

Whether Monte Hall is counter intuitive is a function of how the question is phrased. When you phrase it in a way that underlines the mechanical nature of the host's decision, peop…

> Probably the worst example I've seen first-hand was an entire retail banking loan-approval process There's some real doozies out there. The Reinhart-Rogoff error, which was used …

you're doing it wrong. first you drink all the booze. then you hack all the things. if your investors aren't down with that, they're in the wrong line of work. maybe they should co…

You still need to integrate over x. y|x=c is Gaussian for each c, but there are many such c's in [a,inf]. If you're curious: https://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/1978-32-141/S0025-571…

RNG quality is probably the least of your worries. The curse of dimensionality means you often need a huge number of samples to guarantee a useful level of precision. Additionally,…