The Spider Problem is baseball’s silent problem. It might be its biggest one as well.

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The F-111 could change wing shape in flight, fly at treetop level using radar, and eject its entire cockpit to save the crew. It rewrote the rules of Cold War aviation. Yet despite its breakthroughs, ...

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Stochastic volatility is the unpredictable nature of asset price volatility over time. It's a flexible alternative to the Black Scholes' constant volatility assumption.

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Carcinization is the separate, five-time evolution of crabs. Parallel evolution isn’t unheard of by any means, but crabs have done it a lot. Their repeated similar evolution makes them interesting to ...