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JUNE 14, 2016

It’s simple math.”. “We are here for good, referring to the building of a long-term sustainable business but one which also ensures we leave our users better off today than we found them yesterday.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Self-driving cars, voice assistants, digital personal stylists, logistics, digital security — there is an application for AI and “smart computers” around almost every corner these days. It’s All Math, All The Way Down. At conferences, when I tell people that AI is all math, half the room turns pale,” he said, jokingly.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 31, 2023

Bloomberg ) • The Kremlin Has Entered the Chat : Russian antiwar activists placed their faith in Telegram, a supposedly secure messaging app. Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide At the heart of the country’s economic and social crisis is a broken housing market, which has amplified social divisions.

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Generation CFO

JANUARY 28, 2022

However, when he didn’t secure a senior contract at Bradford City, he left that path behind and went on to study maths at University. At school James was ultimately a shy mathematician who also happened to be quite good at football. Consequently, his original career ambition was in professional football.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 15, 2023

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Ken Griffin’s Hand-Picked Math Prodigy Runs Market-Making Empire : Citadel Securities CEO Peng Zhao left for college at age 14, caught Griffin’s eye early in his career and built systems now mopping up market share.

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VCFO

AUGUST 11, 2022

Renewable energy by nature demands different talent pools with more advanced technical and math skills to help guide the initiatives. Securing the talent needed to meet energy demands will require oil and gas leaders to think and act in new ways.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Byju's works to simplify math and science for kids through games and videos, according to Bloomberg, catering to students between kindergarten and 12th grade. Byju's valuation is now at about $10.8 The push comes from the current trend in India for parents to seek online alternatives to education due to the pandemic. million paid subscribers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Securing endpoints and the data that flows between them is absolutely critical in today’s hyperconnected world. By adding Cylance’s technology to our arsenal of cybersecurity solutions, we will help enterprises intelligently connect, protect and build secure endpoints that users can trust.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2017

Sometimes, they go so completely pear-shaped that she says they become WMDs: Weapons of Math Destruction. What is a Weapon of Math Destruction? An algorithm is a model coded with math, and models are built using data with outcomes that are defined by conditions for success. And that, author and Harvard Ph.D.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Intel Secures AI Partnerships f or FinServ, Supply Chains. Baidu’s cloud solution will integrate Intel’s Xeon Scalable processors, as well as Intel’s Math Kernel Library for Deep Neural Network technologies, to develop financial technologies for banks in China.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

That’s according to Kaspersky Lab security researchers, who, according to news from 9To5Google , discovered the loopholes on today’s popular dating apps. Although it would require the target to stay in one place, the math can be done easily, thanks to the services themselves.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

This trend has also shone a spotlight on the importance of data security for organizations, he added, a concern that is likely to increase as the enterprise continues to address data integration challenges. One is what he described as “math phobia.”

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 23, 2023

1 Instead of being financially secure and the strongest country economically by far, we have created an unforced error that weakens us over the long term. But that doesn’t mean we should not have taken advantage of the lowest interest rates in modern history to refinance the United States debt.1

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

There wasn’t a lot of math or analysis to see if it was the right decision, it just … aligned with [the] lifestyle design that I was going for.”. Keeping The Meat Secure. “What I wanted to do was build a monthly subscription, because monthly subscription lifestyle businesses are great businesses to be in.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

The latest Subscription Commerce Tracker explores how subscription-based businesses are adapting to an ever-changing market, and how they keep their payments experience secure and how new models are emerging to stay competitive. What Security Means For Subscriptions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

Nathoo and other Outschool executives have extensive technology backgrounds, bringing a decidedly tech-oriented approach to online education, with an emphasis on secure and communication-rich video interfaces and outside-the-box course offerings. We’re exploring bundles by topic, so math for age 8, [for example]. …

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

That’s both a tremendous opportunity — in terms of providing stronger security, better customer experiences, more customized commerce journeys and, on the whole, better outcomes for both merchants and customers. We can now rethink and reevaluate things with math that we’ve never been able to.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In Dash’s early development, it incorporated the knowledge of payments industry experts , allowing for near-instant transfers, along with comparable anonymity and security features. To end this week’s Bitcoin Tracker, here are some recent, insightful words of warning from security pioneer John McAfee.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

They have to be secure and live up to the technological requirements of modern cards, which are no longer simple plastic rectangles. Working with the three-largest card manufacturers in the world, we hope to be able to change that math,” he explained. The cards must be a bit more than merely durable.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

Cash-only businesses present a couple of problems for the Scouts: There’s less money to be earned from today’s consumers, as well as an added security risk involved with carrying that much cash. “At The cookies may be popular, but Girl Scouts can’t capitalize on that if passersby aren’t carrying a payment method they accept.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Now, they are investing in algorithm companies, math scientists, analytics and things that we would typically only have associated with leading tech companies,” McCammon pointed out. The biggest shift to me is the internal focus at the automakers,” he added. You can’t make software impenetrable into perpetuity.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

The movement toward financial inclusion, and toward a consumer experience that is seamless and intuitive and secure, is one that brings companies to share process and perhaps even prosperity. So take all the security, administrative and efficiency problems that come with being cash only — but writ large. Connectivity and Collaboration.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The math comes out to one per week. With the growth of iPayYou service usage and the addition of complementary bitcoin-backed services over the next five years, the drive toward ubiquity, ease of use and perceptions of security should reflect a steep positive curve of acceptance and growth rate from where it is today.”.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2024

No audited returns, mathematically improbable claims, and zero accountability But none of these “influencers” sell securities to clients, so they do not fall under the regulatory oversight of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).2 2 Sure, you can claim mainstream media is bad, but social media is worse.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2016

But there are others where you have to do the math. Guru Hariharan, CEO of Boomerang Commerce, recommended that online shoppers divest themselves of the notion that the MSRP is anything suggested by the market or even a retail price at all but rather a conglomerate of a dozen factors that go into the final sale figure.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

In other words, some of their identity attributes can help them attain housing, a job or credit – but that identity might not be very good: That is, it might be bad data, inaccurate data or data filled with bad math. As a result, 3.5

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

(emphasis added) The red flags were there for anyone who could put their greed aside and simply focus on the math. In the 2010s, the true risk-free rate of returns – 10-Year Treasuries – was yielding ~2.5%, so how could anything remotely risk-free be yielding 20 times that amount?

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Onplan

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Let’s look closer at the headcount math. Although higher pay increases FICA taxes for some higher earners (Social Security taxes cap out near $150,000 and Medicare at $200,000), it’s offset by state unemployment taxes. NoMoreOffice currently doesn’t have any special benefits for remote employees. Current staff.

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JULY 13, 2018

-based wireless carriers said they would stop sharing such location-based consumer data to some controversial data aggregators , a move that is part of the increasing attention that consumers, and their lawmakers, are paying to privacy and security in this digital age. Different Methods. It helps me keep my engineers honest,” he joked.

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JULY 12, 2018

-based wireless carriers said this would stop sharing such location-based consumer data to some controversial data aggregators , a move that is part of the increasing attention that consumers, and their lawmakers, are paying to privacy and security in this digital age. Different Methods. It helps me keep my engineers honest,” he joked.

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MARCH 31, 2016

If the math isn’t clear enough already, Pew spells it out: Median American families simply have less money left over after the bills are paid to spend on much of anything else. percent in 2014 from just 8.8 percent in 2009). “That’s a challenge to their being able to put any money aside for savings or to build wealth.”

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MAY 19, 2016

A security application? In fact, the very term “structured data” connotes less of an association with science fiction and more with something like … factual math. What were (are) Amazon’s plans for the AI image recognition software? Enhancements for its Fire TV and gaming platforms? This very week, another bit of AI action.

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AUGUST 6, 2016

And as serious as that sounds — Southeast Asian -o rganized crime dedicating itself to stealing your product at all costs is actually quite bad — that isn’t even the biggest security problem the SAT has right now. The questions and answers include 21 reading passages – each with about a dozen questions – and about 160 math problems.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

He didn’t think much of math and science — rather unusual given his choice of a profession that uses complicated math formulas to communicate. Amazon not only coined the term one-click checkout , but filed a patent for it in 1997 and secured it in 1999. His economic principles were what inspired President Lyndon B.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

And so the thing we were doing was sort of solving like often securities law or tax or accounting problems for people with like derivatives. So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? Everything is securities fraud.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

million securities on the fixed income opaque side of the market, using a lot of great systems, a lot of great mathematical mouth, and also couple hundred humans. So volatility halts, for example, we have volatility halts for securities, individual securities. RITHOLTZ: That’s interesting. but that’s very infrequent.

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MAY 3, 2017

Investors pushed the issue some — UBS Securities’ Steven M. Here’s our own estimates using our long standing Apple Pay adoption tracker stats, and back of the envelope math regarding the number of users and share of retail here. Cook also noted that iPhone’s active installed base grew by “double digits year over year.”.

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