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The way the article is written, it appears that the formula is used as: 1. Observe market parameters (volatility of the underlying and risk free rate) 2. Plug into formula 3. Deduc…

In modern finance the Black-Scholes formula is not used to "price" options in any meaningful sense. The price of options is given by supply and demand. Black-Scholes is used in the…

This guy is also copying medium posts without attribution, first one I looked at: https://awstip.com/using-nginx-as-an-api-gateway-ce7781c712b... Stolen from: https://marcospereira…

> And of course quite a few countries still using English because they were formerly colonized/oppressed/etc. (take your pick) and might have a thing or two to say about having to …

Thanks, these are indeed good arguments. This made me reconsider but I am still not entirely convinced. I would argue that the association of the flag with the current government r…

The website makes further arguments: English is the official language in many other countries, therefore choosing the UK is arbitrary. You could define a complicated rule to make i…

The website argues that using a flag for a language may confuse or even offend users. It argues English would most appropriately be represented by the flag of England, but few peop…

LLMs such as ChatGPT are very useful to craft or explain command lines for you. It doesn't replace knowing the tools and reading the man pages, but great to get started.

The CV of Thomas Vidick, one of the two people that found the bug, is quite impressive. Undergrad at ENS in France (ranked 1st), PhD at Berkeley (3.97/4.0), postdoc at MIT under Sc…

I believe Newton's flaming laser sword applies, so I would ask: "What set of observations do you consider would establish the truth of your claim?" From https://philosophynow.org/i…

Birth rate is not a law of nature that can be naively extrapolated. Increased pace of technological development implies an increased pace of societal changes, which will impact bir…