flashfaffe2

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by flashfaffe2 1mo ago
Thanks for the refreshing reminder. This was one of my favourite topic at school but ended never used it in professional environment. However , I will definitely review the theory. Banach spaces and fix theorem were kind useful definition&#
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by flashfaffe2 3mo ago
To the best of my knowledge, most of the founding team started their careers in the US ( meta,etc..) and their primary investors are US VCs. In that regard, they smartly benefit on both side : US funding and European brains
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by flashfaffe2 10mo ago
Without being to self-centred here but since I have been using LLM heavily I have always challenged the results given The post seems to propose the following vector: Idea-> LLm validation -> confidence -> no further checks My proce
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by flashfaffe2 1y ago
Thanks for the inputs. "Bandits work best for relatively simple optimization choices at very large scale" Have you considered different methods to address this shortcoming?
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by flashfaffe2 2y ago
Genuine question for an outsider: would this imply that gold can be created? My memories from the last chemistry class I had, I clearly remember my teacher demonstrating philosopher stone ( aka changing materials in gold ) was feasible.
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Commercial real estate worries is worst than expected(bloomberg.com)
2 points by flashfaffe2 3y ago|1 comments
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by flashfaffe2 3y ago
To resonate with recent article published on YC, the era of real estate is over.
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by flashfaffe2 3y ago
Would be interested to know how this was computed. I guess this was a kind of survey and if so, based on the question: are proud of the US army or are you supporting us army action around the world then I wouldn't be surprised to obser
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by flashfaffe2 3y ago
Prévois thread on Spinoza here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37150843
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The deindustrialization of Germany(politico.eu)
100 points by flashfaffe2 3y ago|163 comments
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1 Out 6 Asset managers may disappear by 2027(ft.com)
2 points by flashfaffe2 3y ago|2 comments
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by flashfaffe2 3y ago
Asset management business model in needs of clear reassement. There is clearly a lack of concurrence combined with high fees. Moreover, the sector has in a recent years seen an inflation of legislative obligation impacting their costs.
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by flashfaffe2 3y ago
Short debate on the same topic on french TV: https://youtu.be/5Sf6hdnSqS4
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by flashfaffe2 4y ago
I only know Cramer from the fun and others meme is been the originator. But that statistics should be taken with caution. Being long equity since 2008 was not really a proof of creating a alpha ( aka adding superior return than the market)
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by flashfaffe2 4y ago
The current system requires more workers ( with decent salary) than number of retirers... Given the population if getting older this creates an a very prévisible imbalance...
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by flashfaffe2 4y ago
What I personally did but very hard to convince others to follow that way...
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by flashfaffe2 4y ago
French here: Though the problem is well known (at least for 40 years), No french governments has considered diversifying the source of the revenue funding the pension system. Actually its worse as the only capitalisation existing are in a
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by flashfaffe2 4y ago
The withdraw from the $59 trillion Net Zero Asset Managers initiative shows somehow a little more nuance than the current doxa. Like it or not, this echoes the comment from former HSBC manager fired few months back for raising his own view.
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Vanguard boss warned investors not to expect superior returns from ESG funds(ft.com)
1 points by flashfaffe2 4y ago|1 comments
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by flashfaffe2 4y ago
Same author but More technical video: https://youtu.be/IlliqYiRhMU
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by flashfaffe2 4y ago
TEDx video from Ramin hasani explaining his algorithm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI35E5ewBuI
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by flashfaffe2 4y ago
Low Interest-->Crony capitalism in a real free market loss would have occurred by the accountable people.
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by flashfaffe2 4y ago
I totally second this. For someone who has a tortuous relationship with mathematics, I always lovedthe beauty of som concepts but to a certain point, got lost mainly due to knowledge base not really understood. Getting to know some histori
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by flashfaffe2 4y ago
Exactly what I thought reading the comment.
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by flashfaffe2 4y ago
Maybe this is off topic but how this algorithm adapt itself to time series? I mean you want to cluster data which might be autocorrelated... Does this case is taken into account or do you need to preprocess your data beforehand?
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by flashfaffe2 4y ago
Indeed, this seems worth a deep read as this especially address main PCA shortcomings ( heterogeneous data, non numerical data,.etc...). Thanks mate I've definitely find a way to keep myself busy this weekend.
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by flashfaffe2 4y ago
Not sure I got your point. Can you elaborate?
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by flashfaffe2 4y ago
Kind of contrarian view I like to read on HN. If I may add, maybe the reason people used robo advisory here is potentially ( mainly) because they are not aware of the other tool. I must admit myself that the focus over fees charged is not s
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by flashfaffe2 4y ago
As customer who experienced this not far than yesterday, my priority was to flight asap. Not to enter in litigation with the company ( which is incredibly painful). Moreover if you pay your ticket peanut ( Ryanair or easyJet in Europe), I d
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by flashfaffe2 4y ago
Agreed with all above. I would add that this won't help customers either as regardless you paid upon check-in or not, this does not address the ultimate point for customers: go to their destination on agreed time.

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