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In this Backyard, it’s “win or go home,” and this crew hasn’t left since the 90's.
Where there’s a pitch, there’s a legend.
#YouGotThis
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Bengaluru, India Katılım Aralık 2014
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Had a Jane Street phone interview in 2016. "Price a 6-month forward on carrots."
There's no carrot futures market, so I build one from scratch: seasonal harvest cycles, USDA demand elasticity, cold storage decay rates.
One trader stops me. "Your storage cost function– you're modeling the carrot as dead inventory. Like grain in a silo." He asks me the metabolic respiration rate of a post-harvest carrot at 2°C. I estimate.
"Your forward is overpriced by exactly that shrinkage. The underlying is consuming its own sugars. It's alive." Good correction. I adjust the model. I think I've recovered.
Rejection email comes the next morning. Subject: "Ethical Review." My framework, they write, "relied on the severance of the root organism from its growth medium." The question about respiration was a test. The carrot was still alive and I'd built an entire derivatives structure on top of its death without questioning whether harvest was an acceptable act.
I pull up the recruiter's original email. It doesn't say Jane Street. It says Jain Street– a non-violent quantitative commodities fund.
The carrot was never supposed to be priced. It was supposed to be refused. I later learn the only candidate who passed that round was a former monk from Gujarat who sat in silence for eleven minutes and said, "I cannot put a price on life." He's now a partner.
Deedy@deedydas
Jane Street made ~$40B in 2025 with 3,500 employees, a ~2x from the year before. At ~65-70% profit margin, that's $8M profit / employee, the highest for a 1000+ ppl company. High-frequency trading continues to be the most efficient money making engine. I want to share an old story about my Jane Street interview in 2014. Jane Street was known for hiring a lot of math, physics and CS olympiad winners from top universities and putting them through many rounds - including, for trading roles, a gauntlet of mental math. It was my 6th interview and my final round and I recall being asked "What is the next day after today in DD/MM/YYYY where all the digits are unique?" They'd toy with you and say "You can use a pencil and paper, if you want" but you knew that was an instant no. Painstakingly and as quickly as I could, I came to an answer. "How confident are you that this is correct on a 0-1 probability scale?" the interviewer said. "0.95", I blurted out, not fully knowing how to answer that. "Are you sure?" After thinking harder for a few more seconds, I realized I could've flipped the digits around to get a closer date. I gave the interviewer my answer. It was correct. "0.95 huh?" he chuckled. That's when I knew I failed. Note: fwiw, other companies that come close in efficiency are - Tether ($90M+ profit/emp) - Hyperliquid ($80M+ profit/emp) and on revenue: - Valve ($50M/emp) - OnlyFans ($37M/emp) - Craigslist ($14M/emp) - Anthropic ($12M/emp, run rate) - OpenAI ($8M/emp, run rate) For comparison, Nvidia is very efficient at scale and is $4.4M/emp.
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Let’s just say George RR Martin isn’t the only one who’s written 1,200 pages of Winds of Winter. We’ll see who finishes first Georgie boy @GRRMspeaking
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😂😭😂😭
Karnataka Portfolio@karnatakaportf
Long Weekend Escape? Bengaluru Crowd Turns Agumbe Ghat Into 4-Hour Traffic Festival This is the scene at Agumbe Ghat when people from Bengaluru head out to “enjoy” their long weekend only to end up stuck in traffic for 3–4 hours straight. What was supposed to be a peaceful getaway into nature turns into an extended parking session on a hill road. Instead of exploring scenic views, breathing fresh air, and relaxing, people are treated to a premium experience of bumper-to-bumper traffic, honking symphonies, and slow-motion driving from one curve to the next. Ironically, the only thing moving faster than the vehicles is the frustration. At this point, it almost feels like the plan isn’t to escape the city, but to carry Bengaluru’s traffic along for a road trip. Long weekend holiday? More like a well-organized traffic festival—where the destination doesn’t matter, because you’re already spending all your time on the road. #bangalore #bengaluru #traffic #agumbe #ghat @ARRS_India @AgumbeResearch @Shivamogga_SP @DgpKarnataka @KarnatakaCops @Lolita_TNIE @ChristinMP_
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Forest Department controlled parks in Bangalore only accept cash for entry fees, and do not accept UPI.
Zucker Doctor@DoctorLFC
Tell me a piece of trivia about your city that you think most people will not know. Here's mine: The official name of Marine Drive in Mumbai is Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Road.
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Imagine losing your life savings and then you’ve got fucking Wall-E & his mates Gegenpressing you as you try leave
Jacob Orth@JacobsVegasLife
Slot machines can now follow you across the casino floor😳
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watching the gigachad edition of lord of the rings again
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JUST IN: Workday claims updates to their product have been “too powerful” to be released to the public, has not changed its software since 1986 to protect humanity.
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(Anthropic employee): Oh, you think you can buy this SF house, huh? 12 million.
(OpenAI employee): Amateur…I offer 15 million.
(Anthropic employee): 20 million!
(OpenAI employee): Hardball, eh? 40 million!
(Boomer couple): Our hard work and perseverance are paying off!
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Top gun 3 is gonna hit Dhurandhar level propaganda, you can feel it.
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“You’re absolutely right. I meant left”
OpenAI@OpenAI
ChatGPT is now available in CarPlay. The voice mode you know, now available on-the-go. Rolling out to iPhone users running iOS 26.4+ where CarPlay is supported.
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The Suzuki e VITARA has a clever driver drowsiness prevention system: the stiffly sprung suspension periodically sends jolts through the driver's spine, keeping the driver attentive on the highway.
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Arteta thinks he’s Avon Barksdale
JR🔻@N1noBr0wn
Saka got the easiest job in the world. Arteta tell him just go out there n win some corners
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First Look at Amir Khan as Smoke Jr. and Stack Jr. in ‘SINNERS: LEGACY”
Ryan Coogler will not return. Rohit Shetty (‘SINGHAM’, ‘CHENNAI EXPRESS’, ‘GOLMAAL 3’) is set to direct.
(Source: ew.com/sinners-scene-…)
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Chairman Atanu Chakraborty resigns After he was unable to get an Infinia metal credit card inspite of trying for 4 years
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