vetta project

I don’t trust philosophical arguments all that much. I think this comes from studying mathematics. To start with I try to see or feel a result and I then use this to either understand the essence of an existing proof, or to give me guidance in constructing a proof myself. I remember [...]

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I found Peter Thiel’s talk from the 2007 Singularity Summit interesting.  Are rapid technological changes a driving force behind some of the world’s financial turbalance?  Perhaps the dot-com bubble was a case of pre-singularity jitters?

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From a footnote in the paper I’m currently reading:
“The cubic drift of our share process is also closely related to that of the stochastic Ginzburg-Landau diffusion used in superconductivity physics to model phase transitions.”
You know, there really should be a ban on physicists going to work in mathematical finance…

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