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"We don't really use math"

Guess their entire trading strategy was hurr durr the coins go up. Completely unsurprising they lost their asses when gasp the coins stopped going up.

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She was referring to the type of math that she did to earn a math degree, which I suppose could be true. My math degree did not require any of the kind of math I assume they do at these kinds of exchanges, although I also assume that the whole branch of math that starts getting into modeling and analysis would be very useful in these sorts of companies.

its actuarial science which is basically stats

Didn't she literally say they use elementary school math right after that?

I think it was specifically about her CEO job. There might be other people who worked there who did technical stuff.

The comfort with risk part seems worse in hindsight. Obviously somewhat less comfort with risk would have been better.

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