Ramin Nakisa

So I...

I think I've picked up a lot of tools along the way, intellectual tools, money, because if you work in banking, it's a side effect often, which helped.

But you build up the richness over the course of your life.

And I think if you're intellectually curious, you fill your kind of intellectual bag as you go.

And those tools come back again and again and again.

Weird stuff.

that you learn when you're doing physics and you just think this is useless.

But then suddenly, you know, you realise, oh my goodness, this is exactly what I studied, you know, 20 years ago.

Weird links that you would never guess.

So things like the Black-Scholes equations, right?

It's just like diffusion.

Okay, so how you price derivatives.

There are these kind of differential equations that help you price derivatives like call and put options.

But these come straight out of the same physics, the same equations, which govern how fluids flow.

So things like that.

That's mad.

I know, it's so weird.

And then things like vector embeddings.

Like when I was at Oxford, we were studying neural networks.

So we teach these neural networks how to take a word and make it plural, right?