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Thomas Vilhena

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Whenever a new technology appears, almost everyone claims it will be “transformational.” Usually, that claim is too vague to be useful.

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A Review of Consensus Protocols

The consensus problem is a fundamental problem in multi-agent systems which requires a group of processes (or agents) to reliably and timely agree on a single data value. Although extensively discussed in the context of distributed computing it’s not exclusive to this field, also being present in our society in a…

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Stock Option Pricing Inference

I’m a stock market enthusiast 📈, so lately I have spent my spare time on the topic of stock option pricing, and I was curious to find out whether or not I could build a script that accurately reflected real market option prices. It turns out I came close, and learned a lot along the way, which I share in this article.