Writer and Professor Emeritus of Financial Engineering at Columbia University
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Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian
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Models Behaving Badly
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The Volatility Smile
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My Life as a Quant
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Why Is This Interesting? – The Tetragrammaton Edition
A single name–Bjork or Madonna–is grand. A single name with its own name is even grander.
Emanuel Derman on X
Cherchez la femme. Follow the money
Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models (Gift...
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. m...
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All these discussions about whether LLMs have morality etc are nonsense until OpenAI Anthropic etc release all the pre-prompt nudges they use to guide the form of the answers to queries. These LLMs are constructed systems, not found objects.
The tech czars should be taking the Financial Modeler's Hippocratic Oath..right @EmanuelDerman ? Not the useless piece of paper they all signed...there's tons of those out there..
From @GrantaMag Thomas Meaney:
“ The American berserk … is the mood of a country convinced of its chosenness but drenched in self-pity about that chosenness not working out”