Crunching the Numbers
Minimize this function to get the line of best fit in OLS regression.
What is the Sum of Squared Errors Function?
Number of people required to be in a room to ensure that two of them share a birth month?
What is 13
What is Timsort?
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, Amortization, SG&A, and COGS
What is revenue?
Move in Chess that attacks two pieces at the same time.
What is a fork?
Regression method that produces sparse solutions by adding a penalty to each coefficient?
What is LASSO?
Number of rabbits in a cage if you observe 72 heads and 200 feet inside of a cage full of R rabbits and D ducks?
What is 28?
Programming language developed by NVIDIA often used to leverage the power of the GPU for AI workloads.
What is CUDA?
Measure of risk-adjusted returns, frequently used to measure performance of Hedge Fund portfolios
What is the Sharpe Ratio?
Deceptive play in Poker that involves checking before seeing the new community card(s).
What is a check in the dark?
Famous conjecture that states that every even natural number greater than 2 is the sum of two primes?
What is the Goldbach Conjecture?
Result of multiplying all of the numbers on a telephone number pad.
What is 0
nano, vim, emacs
What are text editors in Linux?
Method in DCF analysis that makes cash flow timing more faithful to when cash is actually received by subtracting half a year from each discount period.
What is the midyear approximation?
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5
What is the Giuoco Piano (or the Italian game)?
Cardinality of the Powerset of the Integers
What is uncountably infinite?
Optimal strategy for both cases in the following game:
You are rolling a 6-sided die. For every $4 you spend on the outcome being even, you receive $6 if you are correct. For the odd case, betting $6 yields $9 if you are correct.
What is to not play?
Default port of a MySQL database
What is 3306?
Entity that is responsible for ensuring that ETF NAVs do not decouple from their market price
What is an authorized participant?
Name of the game that inspired Cave Game, which later became Minecraft
What is RubyDung
2^16
What is 65,536?
Why computer scientists always get Halloween confused with Christmas.
What is 31 in Octal (October 31st) being equal to 25 in Decimal (December 25th)
(famously) The most common cause of a SyntaxError in Java
What is a missing ;
The most probable mechanism of financial distress in this scenario:
A bank with positive cash flow and sound financials on paper is experiencing significant financial distress. The bank invests long-term in corporate and government bonds exclusively. Inflation is significantly elevated.
What is a lack of marking to market for held-to-maturity securities under GAAP and the inverse relationship between interest rates and price of fixed income securities?
Streets in a game of Hold'Em
What are pre-flop, flop, turn, and river?