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02 Mar 2011, 6:56 am

I'm a newly diagnosed atypical Aspie.

Have suffered with depression for more years than I care to remember with the predominant symptom being my being unable to either make or keep relationships. My new shrink is an Aspergers' specialist and has diagnosed me accordingly.

On the upside, I've got my own company which is Aspie Central -- there's four of us, we're all statisticians / economists / physicists / mathematicians. We're all Aspie to one extent or another - an NT friend of mine refers to the company as being Big Bang Theory made real.

In another post I posited the idea that maybe we Aspies are the "real" X-Men (and women) -- that, the way in which our brains are wired is a genetic mutation which makes us - almost - the next evolution of humanity. Presumably this is a fairly controversial view point?

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02 Mar 2011, 7:07 am

Aspie_SE10 wrote:

Welcome to the Wrong Planet

Hey that is great about your company. It would be great to work for a company where people understand me

I can see us as the "real" X-Men, but not the next evolution. Maybe a fork in the development of humanity

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02 Mar 2011, 7:49 pm

Welcome!

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03 Mar 2011, 5:44 pm

Hey, good to have you at WP Where in the UK are you?

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03 Mar 2011, 10:31 pm

Welkome to WrongPlanet.

The WP Kink

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04 Mar 2011, 10:16 am

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Welkome to WrongPlanet.

The WP Kink

Im sorry but will never understand your liking for the 1960's era when ever i think of it I just can't see what so appealing about it? WHAT IS YOUR SECRET!? :lol:

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04 Mar 2011, 4:19 pm

What does your company do?

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06 Mar 2011, 1:47 pm

Mouldy wrote:

Hey, good to have you at WP

Where in the UK are you?

Hello.

Based in London, in process of moving company to Oxfordshire.

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06 Mar 2011, 1:49 pm

lelia wrote:

What does your company do?

Hi Leila

We build mathematical models.

For the NT community I tend to describe them as "cast-iron-guaranteed insomnia cures".

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06 Mar 2011, 2:30 pm

welcome to wrong planet
mathematical models for what?

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06 Mar 2011, 5:17 pm

questions28 wrote:

welcome to wrong planet

mathematical models for what?

We've got a few main areas of modelling:

(1) "Normal" models, for day-to-day use by client businesses

(a) Banking

(i) credit risk - PD, LGD, EAD, M
(ii) operational risk - AMA / BIA
(iii) liquidity / ALM
(iv) stress testing

(b) Financial Services (e.g., credit card companies)

(i) credit risk
(ii) fraud risk
(iii) funding risk

(c) Capital Markets (e.g., wholesale funding (securitisation (MBS/ABS) / covered bonds))

(i) credit risk - PD, LGD
(ii) stress testing

(2) Research

(a) Banking / FS / Capital Markets

(i) new methods of measuring risk

(b) "Other"

(i) public sector modelling for geospatial analysis and probabilistic modelling

(3) Community Work

(a) each of us works for one or more universities on an unpaid basis, lecturing in our field of measurement

For me, (2) is most interesting and (3) is most terrifying.

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07 Mar 2011, 12:36 pm

nice! good luck with number 3 though....

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08 Mar 2011, 4:33 am

[quote="questions28"]nice! good luck with number 3 though....[/quote

Thanks

Are you based in the UK?