Today in history!
On Monday, January 27, 2025, Nvidia's stock experienced a historic decline, plunging nearly 17% and resulting in a market capitalization loss of approximately $600 billion—the largest single-day loss for any U.S. company to date.
How do LLMs respond to questions about the election?
MIT researchers ran a 4-month study, querying 12 state-of-the-art models on over 12K prompts daily. They found that the models can reinforce certain political narratives, mislead, or even exhibit manipulative tendencies: https://t.co/U4ec1aX437
If allowed to happen, this domino effect might have led to a worldwide financial collapse, but a Federal Reserve–inspired consortium intervened, took over LTCM, supplied more funding, and conducted an orderly liquidation.”
Excerpt From
A Man for All Markets
Edward O. Thorp
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1998 Aug 17
LTCM crash.
“LTCM’s collapse threatened to put $100 billion or so of bad assets on the books of other institutions. This would bankrupt some banks, brokerage houses, or hedge funds, in turn spreading around more bad assets and bankrupting more institutions.
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Dia Nacional do Futebol
É comemorado no Brasil em 19 de julho. Essa data foi escolhida pela Confederação Brasileira de Futebol (CBF) em 1976, em homenagem ao @scrgoficial, o clube de futebol mais antigo do Brasil, fundado em 19 de julho de 1900.
Parabéns!
@guaranifc
Dia da Física
É celebrado em 19 de maio no Brasil. Essa data foi escolhida em homenagem ao nascimento de César Lattes, um dos mais importantes físicos brasileiros, conhecido por sua descoberta do méson pi (píon) em 1947, um marco significativo na física de partículas.
Today in history
2010 May 6
Flash Crash
Navinder Singh Sarao
"Top 5 e-mini trader in the world"
US$ 70 M operating US future markets, e-mini starting in 2003 at IDT (later Futex). With his point-and-click algo from 2009 to 2014, developed by Trading Technologies (Autotrader.)