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People have different risk exposures and different risk appetites. If you're a corn farmer then your entire livelihood is tied to the price of corn. You're willing to give up expec…

FWIW for my comment I essentially used your code and cleaned up compiler-generated imperative code. So yes it used the fact that it only recursed to n-1 but did not use any optimiz…

Here's how I would write the loop version of this. It does involve an optimization since we know parity only depends on n - 1. #include template bool even(T n) { bool is_even{true}…

I was there until the end. It was definitely fading into obscurity but still had >50% of peak numbers. And we were switching to C++ in the last year or so.

There is actually already a Scheme interpreter implemented in Rust ( https://github.com/mattwparas/steel ) which has the same name for the exact reasons you stated.

Veterans Affairs? Virginia?

There is a professor who was at Wisconsin, Charles Manski, who developed partial identification, which uses tons of these decompositions. Idea is let's say you have a binary survey…

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-155 You absolutely can get charged for trading in a similar company.

Reminds me of the Kairos retreats popular in Catholic high schools. I went to one and it was pretty intense and not in a forced way. Basically 4 day group therapy.

Ah cool, are the internalized orders reported publicly anywhere or are they just sent to the SEC/FINRA?

Most trades through a brokerage don't make it on an exchange. They're internalized by a wholesaler like Citadel Securities. Which is the reason for the question.

https://www.uptake.com/blog/good-data-scientist-bad-data-sci... done here too

Probably comes from the first and second theorems of welfare economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorems_of_welfar...

More like broker 1 offered it to me for 95 and to pay Robinhood 1. Broker 2 offered it to me for 97 and to pay Robinhood 2. Robinhood took the offer from broker 2. No collusion nec…

Were you a swimmer?

LTCM's blowup had nothing to do with any flaw in Black-Scholes. They did lose money on equity volatility strategies but it was because they were betting that volatility in the futu…

You are legally responsible as if you had submitted the orders yourself.

Do you have people saved in your phone with the last name “Pickleball” so your phone capitalizes pickleball?

There are a ton of papers on the properties of stable matching under random preferences. The classic paper (Pittel 1989 https://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/0402048?journalCode=s…

One time I ordered from stitch fix and asked for “a shirt which is not red, white, and blue” and got a red, white, and blue shirt.

The author misunderstands risk premium, which is the extra reward the market offers in expected value to induce you to take a risky proposition over a certainty equivalent. I think…