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13:58, 23 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement Change in Tax Law (Created page with "“'''{{ietaprov|Change in Tax Law}}'''” means the enactment, promulgation, execution or ratification of, or any change in or amendment to, any law (or in the application or official interpretation of any law) affecting the tax treatment accorded to the {{ietaprov|Transfer}} of {{ietaprov|Allowance}}s that occurs on or after the date on which the relevant {{ietaprov|Transaction}} is entered into. ")
13:57, 23 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement Central European Time (Created page with "“'''{{ietaprov|Central European Time}}'''” means {{ietaprov|Central European Time}} and shall include Central European Winter Time and Central European Summer Time, as applicable. ")
13:57, 23 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement Central Administrator (Created page with "“'''{{ietaprov|Central Administrator}}'''” means the {{ietaprov|Relevant Authority}} designated to maintain the {{ietaprov|EUTL}} pursuant to Article 20(1) of the {{ietaprov|Directive}}. ")
13:57, 23 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement Call Option (Created page with "“'''{{ietaprov|Call Option}}'''” means an {{ietaprov|Option}} {{ietaprov|Transaction}} entitling (but not obliging) the {{ietaprov|Buyer}} upon exercise to purchase {{ietaprov|Allowance}}s from the {{ietaprov|Seller}} at the {{ietaprov|Strike Price}} per Allowance. ")
13:56, 23 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement Buy-In (Created page with "“'''{{ietaprov|Buy-In}}'''” means the purchase of {{ietaprov|Allowance}}s by the {{ietaprov|Receiving Party}} in accordance with the procedures described in the definition of {{ietaprov|Receiving Party’s Replacement Cost}}. ")
13:56, 23 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement Buy-In Period (Created page with "“'''{{ietaprov|Buy-In Period}}'''” has the meaning given to it in paragraph (a)(i) of the definition of {{ietaprov|Receiving Party’s Replacement Cost}}. ")
13:56, 23 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement Buyer (Created page with "“'''{{ietaprov|Buyer}}'''” means the Party specified as such for the purposes of an {{ietaprov|Option}} {{ietaprov|Transaction}} in the relevant {{ietaprov|Confirmation}}. ")
13:55, 23 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement Bermudan Option (Created page with "“'''{{ietaprov|Bermudan Option}}'''” means a style of {{ietaprov|Option}} that may be exercised on certain days during an {{ietaprov|Exercise Period}} that consists of more than one day. ")
13:55, 23 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement Base Rate (Created page with "“'''{{ietaprov|Base Rate}}'''” is {{ietaprov|EURIBOR}}, unless otherwise specified by the Parties in the {{ietaprov|Confirmation}}. ")
13:55, 23 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement Banking Day (Created page with "“'''{{ietaprov|Banking Day}}'''” means, in relation to a Transaction, any day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which commercial banks are open for general business in, if not otherwise specified in {{ietaprov|Schedule 2}} (''{{ietaprov|Elections}}'') or the {{ietaprov|Confirmation}} to a Transaction, the places in which both Parties have their registered offices. ")
13:54, 23 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement Aviation EU Allowance (Created page with "“'''{{ietaprov|Aviation EU Allowance}}'''” or “'''{{ietaprov|AEUA}}'''” means a unit of account that is an “allowance” as defined in the {{ietaprov|Directive}} and is issued pursuant to Chapter II thereof. ")
13:54, 23 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement Automatic Exercise (Created page with "“'''{{ietaprov|Automatic Exercise}}'''” has the meaning given to it in Clause {{ietaprov|7.5}} (''{{ietaprov|Option Transaction}}s''). ")
13:54, 23 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement American Option (Created page with "“'''{{ietaprov|American Option}}'''” means a style of {{ietaprov|Option}} that may be exercised at any point during an {{ietaprov|Exercise Period}} that consists of more than one day. ")
13:53, 23 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement Allowance Type (Created page with "“'''{{ietaprov|Allowance Type}}'''” means the type of {{ietaprov|Allowance}} specified in the {{ietaprov|Confirmation}} as that which the Parties wish to trade for the purposes of the relevant Transaction. ")
13:53, 23 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement Aircraft Operator (Created page with "“'''{{ietaprov|Aircraft Operator}}'''” means an “aircraft operator” as defined in the {{ietaprov|Directive}}. ")
13:52, 23 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement Affiliate (Created page with "“'''{{ietaprov|Affiliate}}'''” means, with respect to any {{ietaprov|Entity}}, any other {{ietaprov|Entity}} that directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries controls or is controlled by or is under common control with the {{ietaprov|Entity}}. The terms “controls”, “controlled by” and “under common control with” mean the possession, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, of more than fifty per cent (50%) of the outstandin...")
13:52, 23 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:IETA Master Agreement Affected Tax Party (Created page with "“'''{{ietaprov|Affected Tax Party}}'''” has the meaning given to it in Clause {{ietaprov|14.9}} (Change in Taxes). ")
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). ")
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. ")
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: (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
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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 To whose young regulators The storied mines of France and Burgundy Once strove to submit; that airy scheme now lies abandoned. Wherefore am I girdled around by these confounded dockets. Must they exhaust me so? :''Enter'' {{script|Cordelia}}'', strumming on a lute.'' {{script|Cordelia}}: ’Tis the point, Sirrah. {{script|Lear}}: Fair Cordelia! {{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 Were we take those things we do Alone by quirk of flimsy convention And bid them outright cease. Better that, than lend them ease. Just because one can, sirrah — By no means means one ''should''. {{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}}")

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