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phobaron Which firms profit most from America’s health-care system (2018)

Good points but you should differentiate between generics and novel therapies that make up for the 190B USD in EU sales.

phobaron What Do You Do with a Stolen van Gogh?

You commonly sell it back to the insurance company.

phobaron Using Reinforcement Learning in the Algorithmic Trading Problem

Interesting, could you describe one inefficiency that was exploited in the past? I could imagine buying/selling due to spreads between exchanges but is there another not as obvious example?

phobaron US oil prices turn negative as demand dries up

I am curious, dohappen to have a source for that statement?

phobaron Scientists use ML to find an antibiotic able to kill superbugs in mice

They are funded by several big pharma companies (from which they have learned a lot in terms of QSAR). One main point of the collaboration is the creation of production ready toolkits.