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Reinsurance, Climate + Kindergarten Ventures (with Nat Manning)

ACQ2 by Acquired

CHAPTER

The Law of Large Numbers, Is the Single Best Indicator for Future Fires

The law of large numbers works really well for life expectancy and car crashes. It's basically, let's look at the historical events, and those we'll predict future events. And so for years, that did work decently well for fire. In fact, where something has burned i is the single best indicator for where things will burn in future. We then run to day roughly half a trillion simulations for every turn of our model.

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