Tag Archives: Finance

Funding safe AGI

From time to time people contact me wanting to know what I think about whether they should donate money to SIAI.  My usual answer is something like, “I am not involved with what happens inside the organisation so I don’t … Continue reading

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Prospect theory investors

I recently completed a finance paper on the implications of prospect theory for portfolio choice and asset pricing. I worked on this with Prof. Enrico De Giorgi during my post doc at the Swiss Finance Institute. This post is meant … Continue reading

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SciPy – the embarrassing way to code

I’ve programmed in many languages before, indeed I’ve spent at least a year working in Basic, C, C++, C#, java, assembler, modula-2, powerhouse and prolog.  One thing I’ve never done before is Matlab, well except a few basic exercises for … Continue reading

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