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Gas Optimization, Transaction Simulation, and Portfolio Tracking: A Safer DeFi Workflow

A common misconception in DeFi is that a transaction is safe if the wallet shows a familiar token amount and the gas fee looks reasonable. In reality, low cost and low risk are different properties. A cheap transaction can authorize a malicious contract, route assets through an unexpected call, or leave an approval active long …

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The Effect of the First Presidential Debate

October 1, 2016 Probability of Clinton Win:  88% | Probability of Trump Win:  12% Clinton – Trump Spread:  4.4% There has been a clear and substantial swing in voter sentiment towards Clinton following the first presidential debate. Trump compounded the effect of the debate by a bad follow up week.  Most of the polls were conducted before …

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Gaussian Process Models for Actuarial Science

We have written in collaboration Professor Michael Ludkowski and Ph.D candidate James Risk of U.C. Santa Barbara, a paper introducing Gaussian Processes (GPs) to the actuarial community.  Our paper has focused on a practical implementation of GPs in mortality analysis.  A pre-publication version of the paper can be found here:  https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08291 GPs are an extremely powerful …

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