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I have met many mathematicians, #engineers, and #statisticians, from different countries, but, the ones that are graduates of #French and Belgian Universities are probably the best that I have come across.
What makes these countries so proficient when it comes to teaching #maths?
During the early 1990s, most of the #Quants and Financial Engineers who joined the Financial Services industry in the City of #London came from France.
French Mathematicians changed the way banking & asset mgmt was done.
Actuaries at @CityUniLondon dominated Insurance
Neither @LBS nor @LSEEcon contributed to the development of the #Quantitative Finance or #Actuarial Science Professional Cultures in the City.
The major contributors were @hwugradfutures and @CityUniLondon
To date, LBS does not teach Financial Engineering as a pathway
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Hmm.

So, on the one hand we have the Gov't #statisticians, who wish we all had ID cards but who'll carry on using our #PersonalData for administrative ends, while 'exploring' privacy:
gov.uk/government/pub…

And on the other, we have @PalantirTech...

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...meanwhile, @CabinetOffice tries recruiting a patsy to front Cummings' data-driven shit-show:


The commercials of which'll be overseen by 'Centres of Expertise' that not only don't understand (or protect) #IP, but which can't even agree on a #value...
...for our #data, despite millions spent on consultants trying get a consistent answer (they liked).

And #ethics? Well, it's quite clear we won't be getting any of those from @cdei:



...which brings us back to the statisticians:

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