#extreme

One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low. ↗

— John Hull

#concerns #earlier #extreme #fat #i

Yes, our tree has an interesting shape. The center branches reflect the shape of the zero curve. When extreme parts of the tree are reached the branching pattern changes to accommodate the mean reversion. ↗

— John Hull

#branches #center #changes #curve #extreme

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#beliefs #call #extremely #forgotten #grounds

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation. ↗

— David Icke

#complex #extremely #far #good #like

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#essential #extreme #extreme poverty #freedoms #humane

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#communist party #cuban #extremely #founders #grew

The first time, where Fox Mulder and Scully met, she stands up for herself. She stands right there and gives it to him and that was extremely attractive. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#extremely #first #first time #fox #gives

I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes. ↗

— Phil Anselmo

#create #energy #extreme #eyes #form

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#elated #extremely #i #successful #surprised

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves. ↗

— John Avlon

#back #both #debate #define #extremes