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Not sure it's ideal the world's smartest kids most often become academics or work at Google.
Deedy@deedydas
What do the smartest kids in the world do when they grow up? I did the largest study of ~18,000 International Olympiad medalists (IMO, IOI and IPhO) over the last 25yrs, arguably the sharpest analytical minds of the world in high school, to see where they ended up and traced ~50% of them. Founders of ~20 unicorns and ~7 decacorns and ~10 billionaires: OpenAI, Cursor, Stripe, Databricks, Perplexity, Ethereum, Cognition, Hyperliquid, Fireworks, Modal, Quora, Parallel, Cartesia, Wispr Most kids went to MIT, a whopping 12% of them, followed by Cambridge (7%) and Sharif (3%)! The career paths they chose (of those who graduated) were: — 36% Academia (professors) — 26% Other — 22% in Software / Tech — 12% in Quant / Finance — 5% Founders! The biggest employer was Google, by far, at 6%. Others interesting tidbits were: — 47 of them work at Jane Street (#3) — 38 at OpenAI (#5) — 15 at Anthropic — 8 at Cognition — 6 at Isomorphic Labs Olympiaders were 1500x more likely to be billionaires and 4000x more likely to be unicorn founders than the average person!
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@muslimlebron They've been Joelsteon Massacre'ing him for the last decade, don't think 3 games change that
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We need a "Lebronto" name for what Joel Embiid has done to the Celtics
My favorites:
- Emboston
- Joeltics
- Joelston Massacre
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@yc @mittyswallet25 His net rating was elite all season. Least fraudulent player on the team
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@bigslimeNG @BOSSportsGordo Regular season net rating was strong/normal for a 2 seed. They never actually faced adversity on their way to the chip.
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@a1gardener @BOSSportsGordo Choke artist that won a chip? This team was not a good 2 seed and this 6ers team was one of the best 7 seeds I’ve ever seen.
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Takes I won’t hear:
🏀Tatum shoulda played G7.
🏀Fire Joe Mazzulla.
🏀It was a gap year, can’t be a disappointment.
🏀The Tatum/Brown era has been a disappointment.
Fair game:
🏀The team wasn’t as talented as we thought.
🏀Roster changes needed.
🏀Tatum the only untouchable.
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@joonlee Should have 2.5 chips by now. Getting to the finals this season should've been such a layup. It's remarkable how well-coached this team was all season, only to completely choke when it finally matters
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This Celtics core of Brown and Tatum already has such a bizarre legacy. A championship that people discount because of the field, and a handful of terrible playoff exits.
Given how much talent they’ve had over the years, feels like the group has underperformed overall.
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@JakeWally Mazzulla can coach the regular season. Gotta just have Stevens on the headset making tactical decisions when it comes to playoffs, Ratatouille-style. This doesn't work. I don't know
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@atlanticesque @captgouda24 Fascinating how much disagreement is in the comments. I read both and Yglesias is much sharper while Smith writes for a more general audience, presenting pretty bog standard economic insights and updates on state of the world
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@LevAkabas Shocking that they manage this, even without particularly imposing personnel at center. Queta's great and all but you would not expect him to anchor a stat like this one
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The Boston Celtics' opponents this season only took 20.8% of their shot attempts at the rim
That's the lowest rate for any NBA defense in the 21st Century
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@jaycaspiankang International whites still have to be favored, right? But give Flagg and Knueppel a couple years...
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@edgefills Market making is only one part of what they do, and not the part that leads to these profits...
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Jane St is not a hedge fund, they’re not “the other side”. They collect a spread. Tighter spreads means those pension funds have reliable marks for when they assess their portfolios.
Pray tell, why would a long buy and hold strategy ever care about HFT? What could possibly be the interaction between these players?
Profits at a place like Jane means there’s a ton of mismatch between informed flow and noisy flow. (And from what I gather, a fair chunk of this is not trading revenue). Sure, it could mean that retail gamblers are losing at a high rate, but other than a few WSB loss porn posts, most of these people are not trading size. It’s crazy to see we’re still having a derivative of the PFOF discussion from years ago, but the benefits of electronic market making are way, way better than having to deal with centralized bank brokers, or worse, phone brokers
molson 🧠⚙️@Molson_Hart
At least some of the companies on this list do useful things eg make phones (Apple), distribute food and goods (Walmart/Amazon), or fuel your car (Exxon). What does Jane Street do? Take money away from pension funds and retail investors to give to its 40 partners? I guess you could make some sort of liquidity argument like: Jane street makes it easier for me to buy or sell stock. But if you’re on the other side of Jane Street and they made over $30 billion last year, odds are you’re just losing money in the process of doing the thing you’re thanking them for.
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@mattyglesias I don't think that the thermostatic aspect is like the one fundamental one. Maybe it's a bit simpler - in Silicon Valley, you are optimizing on expansion, more-is-more, positive sum games as opposed to zero sum with two competing coalitions?
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@Joshua_W37 @KelseyTuoc I hope this prompted some reflection on your part. Stop larping
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I take some comfort in the fact that whether she realizes it or not, the contortion of one's soul one must suffer to obfuscate the crimes of the capitalists hounds her. Perhaps it will never disturb her more than xans + wine can hide, but like a pursuing dog may it ever haunt her
Kelsey Piper@KelseyTuoc
Suboptimal policy and business decisions have costs measured in human lives. But if you use the standard 'you could easily have done something different to save a life, and you didn't', 'being a person in the US with $10k and not donating it to GiveWell' is social murder.
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@TheDemocrats Big fan of a punchy social media presence generally, but this one is off-base guys
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@mean_field_zane What's the mechanism here? Are the girls Jewish? Is slotting into a positively viewed stereotype that valuable?
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It’s kinda crazy how often a girl likes me because of my being a smart Jewish guy. It’s never about money or looks or whatever. Just being an NJB who can make jokes and ramble about things I’m an expert in.
levy@1929stockcrash
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@LeahLibresco It's a shame, because without the deanonymizing power of LLMs we were well on our way to having a pseudonymous blogger become the next global hegemon by sheer force of argumentation
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It’s so over for Locke and Demosthenes
“What if I try a college application essay I wrote 15 years ago, when my prose style was vastly worse and frankly embarrassing to reread?
‘Kelsey Piper,’ said Claude”
theargumentmag.com/p/i-can-never-…
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@polynoamial I do genuinely think that this would be a good measure of “hard” AGI.
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@polynoamial What we really, really need is a benchmark where AI models make AI models that make AI models that play poker.
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What we really need is a benchmark where AI models make AI models that play poker.
GTOWizard@GTOWizard
We benchmarked every major AI model at poker. GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4 and more. All played 5,000 hands of heads-up no-limit against our state-of-the-art poker agent. Every single one lost. Here's the full breakdown 🧵
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