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How floor traders actually got paid after leaving the big firms. Kris Abdelmessih (@KrisAbdelmessih) left SIG after 8 years. Started a nat gas options business for a backer firm. No salary. You put money up in escrow. "The way it worked — I get 50% of the profits. Profit being your trading P&L minus all your expenses." Hire someone? You and the backer each effectively pay half their salary. Paid quarterly. But there's a holdback building your escrow account over time. The escalation: "Once you'd made a million dollars for them, you go to a 60% deal. Make two million cumulatively, you're on 70%. And that's where it topped out for my generation." So why not just trade your own capital? Some traders' escrow accounts eventually grew as large as their margin requirement. At that point the math starts to look obvious — why give up 30% at all? The answer is tail risk: "Think of the backer as a tail auction." A real black swan — not a risk event, an actual black swan — could wipe you out trading your own capital. With a backer, the worst case is your escrow account is gone. For a lot of traders, that was worth it.

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2 audits done, 340k gone Still the bug was out of scope x.com/0x3b33/status/…

This is Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski. No TikTok dances. No reality TV drama. Just raw, unfiltered genius mastering the impossible long before most of us even choose a major. 🤯✈️

if there is one class i wish i would've taken in college is optimization thankfully the course reader is public!

Kernel Development From Scratch Tutorial! This course is designed to teach you how to create your very own multitasking operating system and kernel from scratch.

a lot of students reached out to me asking for resources to break into quant finance. thought I would compile my favourite quantfin authors so everyone can benefit. in no particular order: 1) Jim Simons 2) Steven Shreve 3) Garry Tan 4) Peter Thiel 5) Marco Di Maggio good luck

Claude code source code has been leaked via a map file in their npm registry! Code: …a8527898604c1bbb12468b1581d95e.r2.dev/src.zip

claude code is officially open source.

Hey twitter/x, one of my goals this year is to share more things that excite me with the world. I’m starting here so let me introduce myself: My name is Angelina, I’m 22, and I currently live in SF! For the past six months, I’ve been working at Meta Superintelligence Labs on model training infra and data strategy👩🏻‍💻 Before that I was at UCLA studying CS and Econ and spent a lot of my time in college building in fintech and investing in early stage companies (General Catalyst Venture Fellows, NEA, Mantis VC). I love food, traveling to new places, a good story, snowboarding, and hosting dinners and game nights🕺🏻 I also love meeting new people, feel free to say hi :)

how to make 400 million dollars in 10 years >be clifton collins >irish >unemployed >get job as a security guard to pay bills >start beekeeping on the side >its going well >win awards for your honey >realize that you can make more money growing cannabis instead >rent houses all around ireland to grow, and sell everything in Dublin >6-7 years later friend tells you about bitcoin >spend $30,000 of profits buying BTC >hide the seed phrase in the case for your fishing rod >in under a year, you’re a multimillionaire off BTC >5 years later doing a dead-drop in the middle of a forest at 2:30am >irish police find you >prison >landlord throws out all of your possessions >including the fishing rod case >$100M of BTC turns into $750M while you’re in prison, now $400M >you made $400M but you can’t spend any of it >its over

Andrej, I’m John Fletcher. I have a PhD in mathematics and theoretical physics from Cambridge, and since 2016 I have been working full-time on the problem of how to coordinate untrusted distributed compute for algorithmic innovation. I listened to your No Priors conversation and recognised the architecture you were describing: commits that build on each other, computational asymmetry (hard to find, cheap to verify), an untrusted pool of workers collaborating through a blockchain-like structure. The result is The Innovation Game (TIG), which has been in continuous operation since mid-2024. The correspondence is so close that I thought it worth writing. The short version: roughly 7,000 Benchmarkers test algorithms submitted by Innovators by solving instances of asymmetric computational challenges (SAT, Vehicle Routing, Quadratic Knapsack, Vector Search, among others). This testing is "proof of work" in the technical sense of Dwork and Naor (1992). Innovators earn rewards proportional to adoption by the Benchmarkers. The repository of algorithms is open source (github.com/tig-foundation…). The system is already producing state-of-the-art results. For the Quadratic Knapsack Problem, 476 iterative submissions by independent contributors brought solution quality to a level that now exceeds methods published by Hochbaum et al. in the European Journal of Operational Research (2025). We are working with Thibaut Vidal (Polytechnique Montréal), who has submitted a state-of-the-art vehicle routing algorithm directly to TIG, and with Yuji Nakatsukasa (Oxford) and Dario Paccagnan (Imperial College London), among many others. One of TIG’s active challenges is directly relevant to your autoresearch work: an optimiser for neural network training (play.tig.foundation/challenges?cha…), where Innovators compete to develop an improved optimiser (see screenshot). One way in which TIG extends the vision is on the economic side. In our view, a monetary incentive is required, otherwise the open strand simply cannot compete at scale. TIG’s open source dual licensing model (designed by my co-founder Philip David, who was General Counsel at Arm Holdings for over a decade, and was the artchitect of ARMs licensing strategy) is intended to solve that problem. I expect we have each thought about parts of this that the other hasn’t. Happy to talk whenever suits. John Fletcher tig.foundation

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Trading is changing FAST! Andrej Karpathy's "autoresearch" just broke the internet – now AI can auto-generate quant strategies & research end-to-end. No more manual grinding. youtube.com/watch?v=qb90PP… #AlgoTrading #QuantFinance #AIRevolution

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if you are interested in getting into AI, the best way today is to start with karpathy's videos on backprop/gradient descent and then get pufferlib (puffer dot ai) and start training models

I did nothing to deserve this praise, passing it back to my teachers: - karpathy - juliarturc - steipete - TheAhmadOsman - badlogicgames - Teknium List goes on and on, I would follow these people. Pure alpha.

This is why, as a moral human being, you should NEVER even CONSIDER exploiting a live bug you have found. You don't just take magical money from magical protocol. You make users lose money, investors lose money, protocol lose reputation and money, protocol employees lose jobs and all that for your own personal gain. forum.balancer.fi/t/on-the-futur…

I can point you to at least 5 jobs right now in Germany if you understand: 1. Linear Regression 2. Time Series Forecasting (ARIMA) 3. Bayes’ theorem 4. You can write code in Python 5. Add ons: Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Clustering algorithms and Monte Carlo Simulation