news.uchicago.edu/story/mornings… End of an era for the cleanest data provider in finance. This is Illinois government level selling your office buildings and renting them back to book an accounting profit level down bad.

Fascinating detail from the recent crypto turmoil- the levered to the hilt stablecoin ethena that does a spot +derivative basis trade negotiated ex ante not to be margin called like everyone else. Selling stealthy tail risk insurance never dies.

I used ChatGPT to solve an open problem in convex optimization. *Part I* (1/N)

1/I'm very excited about the JMP of my PhD student Chris Kontz (Stanford GSB) who's on the academic job market this year. Chris’ job market paper analyzes the impact of the rise in passive investing on the real economy. More passive investing in a stock results in increased

I crossed an interesting threshold yesterday, which I think many other mathematicians have been crossing recently as well. In the middle of trying to prove a result, I identified a statement that looked true and that would, if true, be useful to me. 1/3

Significant progress towards a million dollar prize problem (proximityprize.org) about the security of zero-knowledge proofs that use error correcting codes which come from evaluating a polynomial. This "proximity gap" conjecture would have made such proofs more secure.

This would be a great time for the government to take a look in the mirror and strongly consider a graceful step back from this case. Leave this dispute to the civil courts. This was always a confused case pushed by a previous admin that hated all things crypto and just wanted