You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a … - Nate Silver

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Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.

Nate Silver

You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.

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