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by afryer 2934 days ago
One of my favorite mental models for an entire industry (quant finance):

"'P' Versus 'Q': Differences and Commonalities between the Two Areas of Quantitative Finance"

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1717163

Summary: Quantitative Finance comes down to two tasks: "model the future" (P world) or "extrapolate the present" (Q world).