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AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: And I’ll tell you a story that’s fun about the communication of it too. SEIDES: Yeah, well, it’s a huge problem and it’s an intractable problem because of the way incentive systems work in the asset management industry, everyone across the food chain of capital is reporting to somebody else.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

And so the idea of this product was you plug the game cartridge, they had a communications capability, a modem built in, and you could download video games, almost like having an in-home arcade, like a Netflix for video. The math never seems to work out. Hayes, the communications modem company was in Atlanta, Georgia.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know, if net disposable income for lower income, lower wage earners stays higher, with a consumption basket as food, energy, rent, it’s not a bad thing that that inflation is a bit higher as long as wages for lower income are higher. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? Economy is recalibrating.

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MARCH 12, 2024

So that we’re still on their network, we’re still, so that technology for us to go at it stronger, we would like for those devices to communicate back to us directly. In fact, Amazon began that when they bought Whole Foods. And I was always good at math and, and I had been writing code since I was in the sixth grade.

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JULY 31, 2023

I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. RITHOLTZ: It’s always food. HOFFMAN: It’s always food. RITHOLTZ: The communication was bad also. And that’s sort of the math. He was right on the thesis. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Colin Camerer : So I, some of it was when I was in college at Johns Hopkins, I, I studied physics and math. And there was people, Physics didn’t have, people, psychology didn’t have math, economics was kind of the right mix. The math doesn’t math. That was too abstract. Yeah, I’m gonna vote.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

A good example of that is like you take something from a cognitive reflection testy or something — like — I’ll make it real simple so we don’t have to like do the weird math on this. They’ll same something like the way they talk, the way they walked, the way they cut their food, the music their introducing me to.

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APRIL 1, 2025

Whether it’s saving lives in coal mines or stopping cyber crime, or keeping you the food supply safe, the book is just filled with all these stories and it’s, it’s absolutely a nonpartisan, it’s not a left right thing. He, like, he stopped doing math and science when he was like seven years old. Oh, really?

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