@andrawesbahou @SenorScience 1) you missed out that David's bff is Fermi (named after Enrico Fermi)
2) I'm not strange in the slightest!
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Rahul Jha
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My cofounder @SenorScience is the most interesting person in the galaxy, and he only has 93 followers.
>pov: be David (@SenorScience )
>spawn in the middle of nowhere in spain
>your physicist dad raises you
>fall in love with physics, fascinated with Higgs theory
>2 people from spain make it to MIT, one is you.
>do more physics, lead MIT orchestra, earn BSc
>@marissamayer asks you to join new scaleup Google
>Say no. Must find the Higgs boson
>Caltech: Bonjour.
>you confirm quantum chromodynamic predictions about gluon radiation
>caltech gives you Phd
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>one step closer, must find higgs.
>Harvard: "Bonjour, want to find the Higgs ?"
>Harvard ships you to @CERN , you build instrumentation and algos on ATLAS experiment
>Large Hadron Collider EXPLODES
>Your work delayed by 1 year
>MUST FIND HIGGS !
>Write a lot of papers
>2012: You detect a signal.
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>call friends "monitoring situation" on other channels.
>signal there too
>4th July 2012: @CERN announces Higgs Boson is confirmed.
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>collect fundamental prize in physics
>you are in charge of 200 scientists, H-index 220, 250K citations
>you are sad, no more particles to discover
>you're one of the best data scientists in the planet
>Hedge Funds: Bonjour
>become VP research at Winton
>make money trading commodities
>meet a strange quantman called Rahul Jha
>get a dog. name him Fermi
>still sad, you want to build
>Old friend from MIT: let's price exotic commodities (hotel rooms!)
>Build monster surge pricing engine and team
>algorithm so good it survives covid, and your competitors die
>exit $$
>you now run airline and hotel surge pricing, sorry not sorry
>huge fleet of GPUs, horribly priced
>You realize compute is asset class
>you co-found @ComputeDesk
>strange quantman @trinRJ joins
>investors: "you will find financial antimatter"
>hyperscaler cfo: "yass"
>2026: You detect another signal.
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