Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky

Books: My Life As A Quant; Models.Behaving.Badly; The Volatility Smile.

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Human Affairs

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@davidbessis If mathematics is about rewiring your brain to think about pretend objects
until they feel real, it’s somewhat like writing fiction. You don’t have access to other minds but you create a person & mind and they start to feel real as characters, to you anyway, maybe others too

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Day is done

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“The party has an ingrained habit of postponing serious thought until after the next election, which, like tomorrow, never comes.”
I’ve been seeing for years that they have a death wish - Would be proud to go down with the ship while the band plays.
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@JamesMarsh79 That’s very nice she had so many friends.

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@sebs_tweets I had it once maybe 25 years ago. Luckily the antibiotics finished it off.

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… it is a waste of our & our students’ time to redefine education for the purposes of ChatGPT-proofing our classrooms. Defensive maneuvers, like in-class essay writing exclusively, are acts of deprivation. They deprive students of the opportunity to …

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@Almost_Sure green and pleasant!

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So many interesting things in the world if you allow yourself to think and read sometimes metaphorically and sometimes quantitatively.

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@nntaleb Cyril Connolly:
Old friends are all but indistinguishable from enemies.

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Bring me my Bow of burning gold:
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold:
Bring me my Chariot of fire!

I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In England’s green & pleasant Land.

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@davidbessis It’s a pose created by the hidden prompts as marketing

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If you have a friend on whom you can rely
You are a lucky man …
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@delong @stevenstrogatz Difficulty is that Google, at least originally, presented itself as a search engine for webpages; but ChatGPT does not present itself that way, but is more of a poseur.

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@EmanuelDerman In Armenian language we use the same word for "perfect" and for "complete" and for "real".

It is pronounced as "katareal".

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@AniHay1984 Thank you, that’s immensely interesting to me.

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What is perfection itself? Early in Ethics, Spinoza defines it: "Reality and perfection I use as synonymous terms."
How can reality be perfection? Our world is not a Panglossian best of all possible worlds.
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@stevenstrogatz The sycophantic part is there by design. A marketing trick as @delong has said. But I gave some short piece of fiction I wrote to ChatGPT, and beyond sycophancy it made some remarkably insightful suggestions, telling me in essence what sentences to leave out, and it was right.

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@TheStalwart Siri, just generated a tweet from Joe Weisenthal

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The brilliant George Herbert in the brilliant “The Collar” red, perhaps too dramatically by somebody, but with the text appearing on the screen, it helps to follow.

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