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- 17:59, 19 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs uploaded File:Babe.jpeg
- 17:53, 19 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Satisfice (Created page with "{{a|design|}}{{quote| Both from these scanty data and from an examination of the postulates of the economic models it appears probable that, however adaptive the behavior of organisms in learning and choice situations, this adaptiveness falls far short of the ideal of “maximizing” postulated in economic theory. Evidently, organisms adapt well enough to “satisfice”; they do not, in general, “optimize.” :—Herbert Simon, ''Rational Choice and the...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 12:35, 19 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page The Long Tail: How Endless Choice is Creating Unlimited Demand (Created page with "{{a|book review|}}It should come as no surprise that the editor of Wired magazine, that bible of all things technological, should be enamoured with the significance of the internet, but even so, only someone totally besotted with it, and apparently unaware of the world beyond it, could have written a book like ''The Long Tail'', being as it is informed so deeply by such a utopian (or dystopian, depending on how you look at it) view. Chris Anderson believes the inte...")
- 16:36, 18 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Cheesecake for the brain (Created page with "{{a|philosophy|}}A sardonic hat-tip to Steven Pinker’s extraordinary idea that music might be some accidental byproduct of an evolutionary process, like “auditory cheesecake” that does nothing for the brain. Now there are things that act like cheesecake for the brain: music, as a category, is not one of them, but some types of music that flex particular time-tested formulae, maybe. {{sa}} *Reports of our death are an exaggeration")
- 14:29, 18 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Bayesian prior (Created page with "{{a|design|}}{{Sbf on bayesian priors}}{{dpn|beɪzˈiːən ˈpraɪə|n|}}A way to incorporate existing knowledge or beliefs about a parameter into statistical analysis. For example, if you believe that (a) all playwrights can be objectively ranked according to independent, observable criteria; (b) the quality of those playwrights in a given sample will be normally distributed; and (c) you are trying to estimate the likelihood that a specific Elizabethan playwright really...")
- 13:39, 18 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Category:Technology - Essay (Created page with "{{c|essays}}")
- 13:38, 18 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Rumours of our demise are greatly exaggerated to Reports of our death are an exaggeration
- 12:18, 17 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Kel nothing from nothing (Created page with "{{script|Lear}}: Now, behold these windy allowances <br> To whose young regulators <br> The storied mines of France and Burgundy <br> Once strove to submit; that airy scheme now lies abandoned. <br> Wherefore am I girdled around by these confounded dockets. <br> Must they exhaust me so? <br> :''Enter'' {{script|Cordelia}}'', strumming on a lute.'' {{script|Cordelia}}: ’Tis the point, Sirrah. <br> {{script|Lear}}: Fair Cordelia! <br> {{script|Cordelia}}: My Liege. <br...")
- 12:17, 17 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page King Edward Lear (Created page with "{{a|otto|}}A lesser known fragment of an unfinished play by {{otto}} {{quote| {{Kel nothing from nothing}}}} Later in the same scene, Cnut and Nuncle recap: {{quote| {{script|Nuncle}}: We’d be the better set <br> Were we take those things we do<br> Alone by quirk of flimsy convention<br> And bid them outright cease.<br> Better that, than lend them ease.<br> Just because one can, sirrah —<br> By no means means one ''should''.<br> {{script|Lear}}: If only I could tatt...")
- 10:29, 17 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Template:M intro devil Minsky moment to Template:M intro banking Minsky moment
- 10:28, 17 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Category:Work - Essay (Created page with "{{c|Essays}}")
- 10:27, 17 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Category:Banking - Essay (Created page with "{{c|Essays}}")
- 10:22, 17 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Category:Eqderiv - Essay (Redirected page to Category:Equity Derivatives - Essay) Tag: New redirect
- 10:19, 17 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Category:Disaster - Essay (Created page with "{{c|essays}}")
- 10:19, 17 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Category:Boilerplate - Essay (Created page with "{{c|essays}}")
- 10:17, 17 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Category:Casenote - Essay (Created page with "{{c|Essay}}")
- 10:15, 17 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted page Category:Mifid2 - Essay (content was: "{{C|Essays}}", and the only contributor was "Amwelladmin" (talk))
- 10:15, 17 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted page Category:Free Essays (content was: "{{c|Essays}}", and the only contributor was "Amwelladmin" (talk))
- 10:14, 17 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted page Category:Work - Essay (content was: "{{c|Essays}}", and the only contributor was "Amwelladmin" (talk))
- 10:14, 17 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted page Category:Life - Essay (content was: "{{c|Essays}}", and the only contributor was "Amwelladmin" (talk))
- 10:13, 17 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted page Category:Boilerplate - Essay (content was: "{{C|Essays}}", and the only contributor was "Amwelladmin" (talk))
- 10:13, 17 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted page Category:Banking - Essay (content was: "{{c2|Banking|Essays}}", and the only contributor was "Amwelladmin" (talk))
- 10:45, 15 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Averagarian (Redirected page to Averagarianism) Tag: New redirect
- 09:29, 15 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa design Metis (Created page with "*{{Br|Seeing Like a State}} *{{br|Bitcoin Is Venice}} *Heuristic *High modernism")
- 09:28, 15 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro design Metis (Created page with "{{Quote|“Der Tod eines Menschen: das ist eine Katastrophe. Hunderttausend Tote: das ist eine Statistik!”<ref>“The death of one man: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand deaths: that is a statistic!”</ref> :—Kurt Tucholsky, 1925}} {{Quote|If you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem. : John Paul Getty?}}An observation from {{author|James C. Scott}}’s {{br|Seeing Like A State}}, picked up...")
- 17:06, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:EFET Allowance Annex Original Affected Party (Created page with "“'''{{efetaprov|Original Affected Party}}'''” means the person from whose account the first {{efetaprov|Unauthorised Transfer}} of any {{efetaprov|Allowance}} occurred; <br>")
- 16:59, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement Unauthorised Transfers (Created page with "{{IETA Master Agreement Unauthorised Transfers complex}}")
- 16:00, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page No Encumbrances Obligation - EFET Allowance Provision (Redirected page to No Encumbrances - EFET Allowance Provision) Tag: New redirect
- 15:57, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Emissions No Encumbrances sa (Created page with "*{{{{{1}}}|Unauthorised Transfer}}")
- 15:55, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:EFET Allowance Annex No Encumbrances (Created page with "{{EFET Allowance Annex 6.3}}")
- 15:52, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement No Encumbrances (Created page with "{{IETA Master Agreement 5.3}}")
- 15:50, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Template:Emissions no encumbrances summ to Template:Emissions No Encumbrances summ
- 15:49, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Template:Emissions no encumbrances comp to Template:Emissions No Encumbrances comp
- 15:48, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:EUA Annex No Encumbrances (Created page with "{{EUA Annex (d)(vii)}}")
- 15:23, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa emissions EUA theft (Created page with "European Commission’s [https://climate.ec.europa.eu/eu-action/eu-emissions-trading-system-eu-ets/union-registry_en page of resources] about the Registry and all the things they have done to reduce fraud")
- 15:04, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Emissions Central Administrator sa (Created page with "*{{{{{1}}}|National Administrator}} *{{{{{1}}}|European Transaction Log}}")
- 15:00, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Emissions Central Administrator comp (Created page with "Similar across {{emissionsdocs}}. And why not?")
- 15:00, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Emissions Central Administrator summ (Created page with "The {{euaprov|Central Administrator}} operates the {{euaprov|Union Registry}}, a database that holds accounts and keeps track of Allowance ownership for all entities participating in the ETS markets including end users (ie those compliance obligations to surrender Allowances) as well as intermediaries, market makers and speculators who trade Allowances — for the, er time being — without compliance obligations. The {{euaprov|Union Registry}} It was centralised in 20...")
- 14:51, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Central Administrator - Emissions Annex Provision (Created page with "{{euastdmanual|Central Administrator}}")
- 14:47, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template talk:Ietastdmanual (Created page with "{{Ietastdmanual|Original Affected Party}}")
- 14:47, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Emissions Administrator Event comp (Created page with "{{emissions same comp|Administrator Event}}")
- 14:37, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Emissions Unauthorised Transfers sa (Created page with "*An overview of the odd and now mostly historical experience of emissions allowance theft")
- 14:36, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Emissions Unauthorised Transfers gen (Created page with "*Theft and Allowance financings *“Unauthorised”?")
- 14:34, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted page Template:Emissions Unauthorised Transfers complex summ (content was: "This is Carbon Squad’s round-about way of saying the {{{{{1}}}|Allowances}} you have been delivered, good sir, are ''hot''. Nicked. Half-inched. Fell off the back of an electric truck. ''Stolen''. Once this regrettable state of affairs has been confirmed by an {{{{{1}}}|Appropriate Source}}, your {{{{{1}}}|Allowances}} become “{{{{{1}}}|Affected Allowance...", and the only contributor was "Amwelladmin" (talk))
- 14:33, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted page Template:Emissions Unauthorised Transfers complex comp (content was: "{{emissions same comp|Unauthorised Transfers}} '''ISDA vs IETA''': The ISDA and IETA terms relating to {{{{{1}}}|Unauthorised Transfers}} are strikingly similar as is evidenced by this {{diff|80366|79556}}. The one difference is the lengths to which ISDA goes to carve out Excess Emissions Penalties from the {{{{{1}}}|Encumbrance Loss Amount}}. <br> '''ISDA v EFET''...", and the only contributor was "Amwelladmin" (talk))
- 14:18, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Template:Emissions Unauthorised Transfers summ to Template:Emissions Unauthorised Transfers complex summ
- 14:17, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Template:Emissions Unauthorised Transfers comp to Template:Emissions Unauthorised Transfers complex comp
- 14:14, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Original Affected Party - IETA Provision (Created page with "{{ietastdmanual|Original Affected Party}}")
- 14:14, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Original Affected Party - EFET Allowance Provision (Created page with "{{Efetastdmanual|Original Affected Party}}")
- 14:13, 14 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Efetastdmanual (Created page with "{{subst:efetamanual}}")