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Re: Jim Simons has died

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Post by 77pt77 »

rglover wrote: post #113

Sorry to hear this. RIP. “Be guided by beauty. I really mean that. Pretty much everything I’ve done has had an aesthetic component, at least to me. Now you might think ‘well, building a company that’s trading bonds, what’s so aesthetic about that?’ But, what’s aesthetic about it is doing it right. Getting the right kind of people, and approaching the problem, and doing it right […] it’s a beautiful thing to do someth…

This beauty talk really needs to think.

With the current status of research it's clear humans have a very problematic relation with what most people think the term means.

A new word should really be crafted to disambiguate.

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Post by jjtheblunt »

rybosworld wrote: post #185
jjtheblunt wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment just made me wonder if the catching of those trillions of pennies makes the markets more efficient. (Not an economist, and I don't pretend to know.)

I think the efforts do make the markets more efficient, and it would be hard to argue the opposite. I'm just wondering out loud if that's a meaningful use of such a large percentage of top talent. I'm not faulting anyone who chooses to go that way. There's a lot of money to be made. To me, it seems unfortunate that we don't better incentive pursuit of science/engineering. This paper breaks down how many people from t…

I bet it's partially that the money is good, and partially that the puzzles are enticing.

Re: Jim Simons has died

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Post by 77pt77 »

karmakurtisaani wrote: post #135
tombert wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't really blame them for not picking me, clearly whatever they've been doing has been working. I'm not entitled to a job from them, obviously. I don't really know what a "top tier" university is, but I can say for sure that my undergrad (WGU) wouldn't count as that. The PhD I'm in is from a more prestigious university [1], and I guess FAANG experience isn't enough to snag an interview with them. [1] University o…

If it makes you feel better, my CV isn't even good enough to get a FAANG interview..

Really?

Google harasses anyone with a live linkedin profile.

Getting to an onsite interview is a different matter though.

I know 3 people at google, all senior, either SE or people managers.

None had brilliant academic records.

One took almost 10 years to finish his sociology adjacent undergrad.

He's the most "successful" and has been there for almost 15 years, 10 in the states.

The others have been there for like 5.

Make of this info what you wish...

Re: Jim Simons has died

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Post by renewiltord »

lupire wrote: post #190
renewiltord wrote: post #33

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Ah, good looking out. It was on my list for this year https://info.arxiv.org/about/donate.html but if it's useless I'll skip it. More for GiveWell it is.

Why would you change your donation plans based on an unsubstantiated snarky comment about an event 15 years ago?

I have a spreadsheet. I take action at the end of the year depending on whether I'm itemizing or not (which I'll know at the end). I'm not going to do too much research. I'll add to it if I have a positive experience. If something annoying barely approaches the space of a thing I blacklist. I have some retention of some things on it but others I might fail to blacklist. In this case, I remembered.

I have a good base-case: GiveWell. So I'm content to dump everyone else on the slightest suspicion. I don't really care that much.

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Post by smabie »

rybosworld wrote: post #185
jjtheblunt wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment just made me wonder if the catching of those trillions of pennies makes the markets more efficient. (Not an economist, and I don't pretend to know.)

I think the efforts do make the markets more efficient, and it would be hard to argue the opposite. I'm just wondering out loud if that's a meaningful use of such a large percentage of top talent. I'm not faulting anyone who chooses to go that way. There's a lot of money to be made. To me, it seems unfortunate that we don't better incentive pursuit of science/engineering. This paper breaks down how many people from t…

Trading is just like, a lot of fun you know?

Atleast that's my primary motivation for it.

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Post by javiramos »

mushufasa wrote: post #16

Last month an amazing biographical podcast came out describing his personal journey to starting rentech, and the factors that make the business so competitive. Certainly worth a listen https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/renaissance-technologies

The podcast seems like a death sentence. They did one on Charlie Munger and he died a few weeks after. Jim Simons also died a few weeks after his episode aired.

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Post by tombert »

karmakurtisaani wrote: post #135
tombert wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't really blame them for not picking me, clearly whatever they've been doing has been working. I'm not entitled to a job from them, obviously. I don't really know what a "top tier" university is, but I can say for sure that my undergrad (WGU) wouldn't count as that. The PhD I'm in is from a more prestigious university [1], and I guess FAANG experience isn't enough to snag an interview with them. [1] University o…

If it makes you feel better, my CV isn't even good enough to get a FAANG interview..

I worked at Apple as a college dropout, and got an offer from Google I didn't accept also as a dropout.

Both of them only really cared more about work history and my ability to solve whiteboard problems. Pretty much all the interviews ended up "what's another clever way to use a hashmap?"

Re: Jim Simons has died

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Post by ignoramous »

adammarples wrote: post #127
infecto wrote: post #52

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While this thread is by no means as formal of an event. Picture yourself at someones memorial service, before/during/after the service you bring up a topic that is orthogonal to the person's life and frames it about yourself instead of the person being memorialized. Its just a bit weird.

Now picture yourself a million miles from that, on a semi anonymous third-tier comment thread on a bulletin board

LARPing is likely Internet's favourite pass-time.
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