The Fire of Life – TEDx talk by Peter Sloot

The Fire of Life – TEDx talk by Peter Sloot

Greek mythology talks about Prometheus who stole fire from heaven to animate his clay men. My central conjecture is that what Prometheus stole was not fire but information in the form of Gibbs free energy. This resulted in our complex world, with zillions of molecules...
Smile and default

Smile and default

According to Basel III, financial institutions need to charge a Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA) to account for counterparty default risk. This adjustment is typically driven by a large number of uncertain risk factors, which makes efficient computation of CVA and...