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- 13:52, 23 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement Affected Party (Created page with "“'''{{ietaprov|Affected Party}}'''” has the meaning given to it in Clause {{ietaprov|14.7}} (Illegality).<br>")
- 13:51, 23 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement Account Pair (Created page with "“'''{{ietaprov|Account Pair}}'''” means a pair of {{ietaprov|Holding Account}}s identified by the Parties in the relevant {{ietaprov|Schedule}} or in a {{ietaprov|Confirmation}} with respect to which physical netting of deliveries pursuant to Clause {{ietaprov|9.7}} ({{ietaprov|Physical Netting of Deliveries}}) may be affected.<br>")
- 20:03, 22 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Bayesian priors (Redirected page to Bayesian prior) Tag: New redirect
- 10:01, 22 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Utopianism (Redirected page to Utopia) Tag: New redirect
- 19:51, 21 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Copyright and AI (Created page with "{{a|technology|}} in which the JC puts on his Tim hat and begins to speculate about the future. So we know that copyright and intellectual property are essentially bankrupt ideas that haven't worked for 40 or 50 years now, and I used essentially as a form of Monopoly protection by rent seeking agents. Off the soap box. And at the same time llms and chat GPT and art generators have been threatening well-meaning artists by apparently plagiarizing their work, while there pr...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 18:49, 21 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Falsifications die (Created page with "{{a|design|}}Those in positions of authority in a power structure have great influence over the discourse. It presents in surprising ways. The elementary case is the research academic, who will gladly publish experiments that confirm her hypothesis, but will be less disposed to publicise those that fail. Nor will the institutions of the paradigm — the journals, peer reviewers and competing academics be any more inclined to publish these failures. Who wants to read...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 17:04, 21 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Turing machine (Created page with "{{a|technology|}}{{dpn|/ˈtjʊərɪŋ məˌʃiːn/|n|}} A hypothetical computing machine which by using a predefined set of rules, can process symbols to determine a result from a set of input variables. These days, a computer, but as {{author|Daniel Dennett}} ably demonstrated, any process which runs an algorithm, regardless of its substrate is a Turing machine: {{quote| {{Algorithm definition dennett}}}} Named after Alan Turing, the com...")
- 14:35, 21 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Force Majeure Termination Payment - EFET Allowance Provision (Redirected page to Force Majeure - EFET Allowance Provision) Tag: New redirect
- 14:33, 21 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:EfetaprovNo Termination (Created page with "{{efetaprov|Force Majeure Termination Payment}}")
- 14:33, 21 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:EfetaprovFM (Created page with "{{efetaprov|Force Majeure}}")
- 14:30, 21 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IetaprovNo Termination (Created page with "{{ietaprov|Force Majeure Termination Payment}}")
- 14:23, 21 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:EuaprovNo Termination (Created page with "{{euaprov|Payment on Termination for Settlement Disruption}}")
- 13:04, 21 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Emissions force majeure termination summ (Created page with "This is as interesting for how similar the versions are, and how different. *'''Notification''': Either party can notify a {{{{{1}}}FM}} *'''Longstop date''': all have variations of a longstop of no later than 9 {{{{{1}}}|Delivery Business Days}} after the scheduled {{{{{1}}}|Delivery Date}}, or earlier should a {{{{{1}}}|Reconciliation Deadline}} intervene. ISDA and EFET also throw in an {{{{{1}}}|End of Phase Reconciliation Deadline}}. Which is nice. *'''Consequences o...")
- 13:03, 21 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M summ EFET Allowance Annex 7.4 (Created page with "{{Emissions force majeure summ|efeta}}This is as interesting for how similar the versions are, and how different. *'''Notification''': Either party can notify a {{{{{1}}}FM}} *'''Longstop date''': all have variations of a longstop of no later than 9 {{{{{1}}}|Delivery Business Days}} after the scheduled {{{{{1}}}|Delivery Date}}, or earlier should a {{{{{1}}}|Reconciliation Deadline}} intervene. ISDA and EFET also throw in an {{{{{1}}}|End of Phase Reconciliation Deadlin...")
- 11:54, 21 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Settlement of Allowance Transaction Prevented by Force Majeure - EFET Allowance Provision (Redirected page to Force Majeure - EFET Allowance Provision) Tag: New redirect
- 20:04, 20 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Algorithm definition dennett (Created page with "Three key features of algorithms will be important to us, and each is somewhat difficult to define. Each, moreover, has given rise to confusions (and anxieties) that continue to beset our thinking about Darwin’s revolutionary discovery, so we will have to revisit and reconsider these introductory characterizations several times before we are through: <br> (1) ''substrate neutrality'': The procedure for long division works equally well with pencil or pen,...")
- 11:12, 20 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa devil expected value (Created page with "*{{br|What We Owe The Future}} (spoiler: a whole lot more common sense than you will find in this book)")
- 17:59, 19 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page File:Babe.jpeg
- 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