{"id":1930,"date":"2008-04-29T09:04:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T16:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2008-04-29T09:04:57","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T16:04:57","slug":"e-coli-in-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/04\/29\/e-coli-in-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"E. Coli In Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al3abbikes.com\/\">Alea<\/a>, a new entry into the best title ever competition: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/papers\/Dang_EvoFin_2008.pdf\">Option Model Calibration Using a Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm<\/a>&#8221; by J. Dang, A. Brabazon, M. O&#8217;Neill, and D. Edelman.  That right, using an algorithm inspired by trying to mimic E. coli foraging, one hopes to calibrate a volatility option pricing model.  No word yet, however, on whether bacteria will be able to spot CDOs with a large exposure to subprime mortgage bonds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Alea, a new entry into the best title ever competition: &#8220;Option Model Calibration Using a Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm&#8221; by J. Dang, A. Brabazon, M. O&#8217;Neill, and D. Edelman. That right, using an algorithm inspired by trying to mimic E. coli foraging, one hopes to calibrate a volatility option pricing model. No word yet, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/04\/29\/e-coli-in-finance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;E. Coli In Finance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-biology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}