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Great summary.
When I wrote the foreword to Spitz's Safe Haven I missed the connection to Cramèr who in early 1900 solved the problem:
Insurance requires a < subexponential dist. which BY DEFINITION allows one to use the law of large numbers w/o hitting the absorbing barrier.
Nassim Nicholas Talebx.comNeed the area of a broken polygon?
Don't bother fixing it.
Just sum up the cross product of the two endpoints, and divide by two.
[Here u × v := u₁v₂ − u₂v₁. Works even if the polygon is nonconvex. Caveat: all segments must point counter-clockwise, since u × v = ... See more
Keenan Cranex.comGerman mathematician Carl Jacobi. He told his students to “invert, always invert,” encouraging them to approach difficult problems by inverting the equation to gain a new perspective.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
The exam might bring up the methods of estimating prepayment rates on CMOs. One method is called the "average life" method in which CMOs are compared to other types of fixed-income securities, with an average maturity calculated for each tranche. The "PSA model" estimates the speed of prepayments against a benchmark. If the &quo
... See moreRobert Walker • Pass The 65: A PLAIN ENGLISH EXPLANATION TO HELP YOU PASS THE SERIES 65 EXAM - UPDATED FOR 2017
If you know a little bit of Dirac notation and quickly want to learn ZX-calculus, then these notes constitute the shortest path to doing so.
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Backsubstitution as matrix multiplication. The left ma-trix M k in Fig. 2 encodes bounds for ` -th layer neurons with polyhedral expressions defined over the neurons in layer 1 ≤ k < ` . The center matrix F k encodes con-straints for k -th layer neurons defined over the neurons in layer k − 1 . We focus on the computation of the entry ( h 2 ... See more
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K-Planes: Explicit Radiance Fields in Space, Time, and Appearance
Sara Fridovich-Keil, Giacomo Meanti, @FrederikWarburg @beenwrekt @akanazawa
tl;dr: fast and custom-CUDA-free NERF formulation.
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