The crack vs. cocaine comparison is no good, we should stop using it. Free base is a very different drug than cocaine. An equivalent "white" version of crack would be crystal meth, which has had similar sentencing…
Yes, 99th percentile quant compensation is significantly higher. But it's a bad comparison. Google alone hire mores more people into these positions than all quant firms combined. 99.9% at FANG might be more comparable.
I think that someone in your position could shift a dial a few degrees. And the resulting consequences, compounded over time, would be absolutely staggering. I'm guessing you did shift a few dials while working there,…
I'm not sure that is actually a counterpoint. It think they are somewhat in agreement. The blog states that there is very little evidence that people of the ancient and medieval world experienced PTSD from combat the…
When I think of the very successful people I know, all have gone through life events that would absolutely flatten most people. The loss of a child, a partner committing suicide, 6 businesses failing, 2 weeks in an…
I have no visual imagery in dreams either. I still have spatial awareness and can move about unimpeded, but there is no visual element to it. Other dream senses are uninhibited. While conscious I can play back long…
I like to start by thinking about cache locality and ensuring linear layout. Next focus on one-time, or minimal memory allocation. Then there are a bunch of small, systemic things you need to get right. After that you…
My partner has had a few airs over the years. Never once has she ever wanted to plug anything into any port, other than power. I think a lot of users are the same. It's a very pretty facebook machine that she has never…
> total abstinence isn't necessarily the goal that everyone who has a drinking problem is aiming for I guess you're technically right. But statements like these make me chuckle. They are very common, and a dead giveaway…
I'm positive you can find many therapies and other methods that end up working better than AA. I went through some of those methods and they are very effective. It also cost me around $10k, and that's after very good…
I wouldn't be too sure. The author, Jia Tolentino, has made a career exploring, and often ridiculing mass trends like these. Yet by the end of the article she is admiring women who had the procedure done and avoids…
There are a few steps to consider before you are loading data into ram. Can you partition the data in any useful way? For example if queries use separate ranges of dates, then you can partition data so that queries only…
Definitely not simple. But the pill is probably the most important invention of the past century or two. Maybe the transistor comes close.
Banks don't want to lend to startups because they actually like their loans to be repaid. VCs don't want to lend to startups because you can't make 100x return on debt.
In the case of a go-playing AI, and maybe even things like self driving cars, then yes I agree. But we are quickly moving beyond the types of applications where you can simply test in simulation. Self driving cars are…
Do we know yet if it has it resulted in an decrease in the gender pay gap and other effects?
Heh, you do need a better descriptor. That is the media's idea of the autistic savant. A very small minority of people on the lesser end of the autism spectrum may have some of those traits. The reality for the other…
It would be really nice to have a "start here" section. What are the 10 parameters I should look at and understand first?
The medallion fund had 20 years of performance before the other funds existed.
James Simons had a funds for tech startups. But it wasn't nearly large enough to support the kind of profits that happened.
This would only explain the performance for the last 10 years. There were no "sucker" funds for the first 20.
I'm not sure how accurate this tactical liquidity picture is, at least for much of medallion's history. For a good portion of their existence they called in all their trades twice a day. Them being fairly late to the…
What you're describing is more like general uncertainty of the future. Procrastination is when those uncertainties have collapsed into pressing realities that need to be handled. And then you don't do them anyways.…
This seems correct to me. The last two things I've learned were javscript/node/react and Haskell. I had never touched js or html before, but within two days I had a pretty decent web app up and running. It was something…
That's true. Except when interviewers see your profile and they suddenly care a lot about the hacky code you wrote at 3am on a saturday for fun. sigh...
The crack vs. cocaine comparison is no good, we should stop using it. Free base is a very different drug than cocaine. An equivalent "white" version of crack would be crystal meth, which has had similar sentencing…
Yes, 99th percentile quant compensation is significantly higher. But it's a bad comparison. Google alone hire mores more people into these positions than all quant firms combined. 99.9% at FANG might be more comparable.
I think that someone in your position could shift a dial a few degrees. And the resulting consequences, compounded over time, would be absolutely staggering. I'm guessing you did shift a few dials while working there,…
I'm not sure that is actually a counterpoint. It think they are somewhat in agreement. The blog states that there is very little evidence that people of the ancient and medieval world experienced PTSD from combat the…
When I think of the very successful people I know, all have gone through life events that would absolutely flatten most people. The loss of a child, a partner committing suicide, 6 businesses failing, 2 weeks in an…
I have no visual imagery in dreams either. I still have spatial awareness and can move about unimpeded, but there is no visual element to it. Other dream senses are uninhibited. While conscious I can play back long…
I like to start by thinking about cache locality and ensuring linear layout. Next focus on one-time, or minimal memory allocation. Then there are a bunch of small, systemic things you need to get right. After that you…
My partner has had a few airs over the years. Never once has she ever wanted to plug anything into any port, other than power. I think a lot of users are the same. It's a very pretty facebook machine that she has never…
> total abstinence isn't necessarily the goal that everyone who has a drinking problem is aiming for I guess you're technically right. But statements like these make me chuckle. They are very common, and a dead giveaway…
I'm positive you can find many therapies and other methods that end up working better than AA. I went through some of those methods and they are very effective. It also cost me around $10k, and that's after very good…
I wouldn't be too sure. The author, Jia Tolentino, has made a career exploring, and often ridiculing mass trends like these. Yet by the end of the article she is admiring women who had the procedure done and avoids…
There are a few steps to consider before you are loading data into ram. Can you partition the data in any useful way? For example if queries use separate ranges of dates, then you can partition data so that queries only…
Definitely not simple. But the pill is probably the most important invention of the past century or two. Maybe the transistor comes close.
Banks don't want to lend to startups because they actually like their loans to be repaid. VCs don't want to lend to startups because you can't make 100x return on debt.
In the case of a go-playing AI, and maybe even things like self driving cars, then yes I agree. But we are quickly moving beyond the types of applications where you can simply test in simulation. Self driving cars are…
Do we know yet if it has it resulted in an decrease in the gender pay gap and other effects?
Heh, you do need a better descriptor. That is the media's idea of the autistic savant. A very small minority of people on the lesser end of the autism spectrum may have some of those traits. The reality for the other…
It would be really nice to have a "start here" section. What are the 10 parameters I should look at and understand first?
The medallion fund had 20 years of performance before the other funds existed.
James Simons had a funds for tech startups. But it wasn't nearly large enough to support the kind of profits that happened.
This would only explain the performance for the last 10 years. There were no "sucker" funds for the first 20.
I'm not sure how accurate this tactical liquidity picture is, at least for much of medallion's history. For a good portion of their existence they called in all their trades twice a day. Them being fairly late to the…
What you're describing is more like general uncertainty of the future. Procrastination is when those uncertainties have collapsed into pressing realities that need to be handled. And then you don't do them anyways.…
This seems correct to me. The last two things I've learned were javscript/node/react and Haskell. I had never touched js or html before, but within two days I had a pretty decent web app up and running. It was something…
That's true. Except when interviewers see your profile and they suddenly care a lot about the hacky code you wrote at 3am on a saturday for fun. sigh...