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"Here's a topic I think about all the time: What factors most affect opinions about players' skills, and by what process do those opinions change? In pickup basketball, there are often unknown players rotating into the playing roster. For purposes of team selection, shot distribution and defensive assignment, other players must evaluate them quickly and make uninformed assessments about their prospective abilities. It's like speed dating."
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"Comprehensive Health Coverage is the Right of all Sentient Beings"
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Think like an experimental particle physicist - second (and last) part « A Quantum Diaries Survivor" K) You are found in the library of your Department. Why was that ?
1. Why, I had an hour to killâ¦
2. I am just checking out the new librarian (he/sheâs cute).
3. They told me there are coupons to cut away for free radioactive samples on this monthâs issue of Physics Today.
4. They threatened to expel me if I did not bring back the overdue copy of DH. Perkinsâ book." -
A look at some of the people living the high life on mortgages that they can't afford.
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"If I'm reading this right, within four years of being issued, two thirds of these CDOs are in defaultt, and their recovery rates are very, very low. That's just staggering. It's actually hard to understand how the banks managed to do this badly: you'd think they could have done better hiring people off the street and paying them to put all those nice little loan documents into piles at random, or tossing mortgages down the stairs and bundling them based on how they landed. They certainly didn't need to hire people with advanced math degrees and pay them seven- or eight-figure salaries to get these kinds of results."
They certainly didn't need to hire people with advanced math degrees and pay them seven- or eight-figure salaries to get these kinds of results.
Oh yes they did. Nobody has been convicted and sentenced to hard time. At least $25 trillion disappeared planetwide. The Fed dumped $2.5 trillion into the US banking system all by itself plus another $1.6 trillion "stimulus" from Washington without oversight or accountability. That cannot be accomplished without differential equations. Imagine a wonk being deposed,
Hot shot Federal lawyer, "Dr. Cervelat, can you explain where the money went?"
Dr. Cervelat, "Of course." There follow 23 days of dialog and three square meters of abstruse mathematical modeling.
How can that be prosecuted? It's like saying "string theory is a crock of crap." Of course it is - but prove it to a jury.