I giggled about that, when I heard. You hire people with PhD in maths and greed, then get surprised when they optimise the output of a simple algorithm to maximise their advantage? (View Post)

a The problem is that a project like this will be aggressively opposed by the Enquiry Industrial Complex. Minimum 20 years to get approval. (View Post)

Slackers. Real pros would have suggested she fly her sick dad to Canada and offering him euthanasia as an alternative to a new phone contract. (View Post)

“conflicting metrics” I worked for an alt-bank where they created a Data Security department. Which enacted standards for software changes that were impossible to meet. So even bug fixes - for *secur… (View Post)

Ha I worked in a bank where they tried to change the traders behaviour via the bonus. So they capped the bonus component for profit and added in a component for growing market share. The traders took… (View Post)