Adam Wespiser

@JordanSchachtel Her story is one of obsession, perserverance, and loss. She’s already had the quiet moment of early retirement, and she risked it all to get back. That quiet moment this time will be the hum of an MRI. It’s a great story!

Brave of Lindsey Vonn to give it a go. Though I don't understand why whoever is in charge of the US Ski team didn't bench her for a healthy sub who could compete. I get it, she's in her 40s, last chance, but that's life. If you tear your ACL in training, it's time to move on.

@Oceanbreeze473 It’s consistent with her obsession, perserverance, and ultimately tragic loss

Lindsay Von took somebody spot on the Olympic team, two bad knees, she came out of retirement at 41 years old. Clearly a bad decision. Know when to retire.

@BenoitAntoine11 @LAPRUNE031 @TBT9_W9 @WespiserD @Dartigolles @Mdelormeau Merci pour votre soutien, les amis !

@LAPRUNE031 @TBT9_W9 @WespiserD @Dartigolles @wespiser @Mdelormeau D’accord avec vous ce mieux sans Delormeau et ce mieux avec Delphine je trouve

Pour son grand retour, @WespiserD a fait la connaissance d'Olivier @Dartigolles, avec qui "c'est hyper fluide" ! 😀

@xenquant @MorbidKnowledge Last chance to affirm the narrative that Germany rightfully punishes itself for the Nazi's crimes, which is a hugely important idea in the modern German state. It's about symbolism, education, and ultimate norm-setting.

@MorbidKnowledge whats the point of sentencing someone at such old age

Footage from 2022 shows former Nazi concentration camp guard Josef Schuetz covering his face as he arrived at a German courtroom. At 101, he was the oldest person tried for Holocaust-era war crimes and was convicted as an accomplice to at least 3,500 m*rders while serving at the Sachsenhausen camp from 1942 to 1945. He was sentenced to five years in prison, remained free pending appeal, and died in April 2023.

@gothburz @jadejebba The only illusion here is that there's some magical alternative power structure that both works for tech, and works at scale.

@jadejebba The slide is accurate. The breakdown is accurate. The illusion is the only thing we're actually good at building.

The Slide My CFO flagged an expense last quarter. $847,000. "Employee Experience." He asked what we got for it. I showed him the slide. The slide had photos. A coffee bar. A ping pong table. A nap pod. A kombucha tap. He asked if employees use these things. I said, "That's not the point." The coffee bar costs $12,000 per month. Average daily usage: 7 cups. That's $57 per cup. The Starbucks downstairs charges $6. But Starbucks doesn't appear on the "Culture Investment" slide. Our coffee bar does. With a photo. Of an employee smiling. We paid for that photo. The photographer cost $4,000. The employee was an intern. The intern doesn't work here anymore. But the photo lives forever. On the slide. The nap pod was $14,000. Usage data: 3 naps per week. Across 2,400 employees. That's 0.00125 naps per employee per week. But the nap pod was featured in Business Insider. "Companies That Actually Care About Employee Wellbeing." We made the list. The list cost $14,000. And a press release. The press release cost $8,000. Total investment in "caring about wellbeing": $22,000. Total investment in actual wellbeing: $0. But perception is reality.

@gothburz That perception exists for very good reasons: you need to both create organizations that "care" and foster individual autonomy while simultaneously have a power structure to weld control at scale. Truth and judgement don't work, the only solution is narrative control.

@krzyzanowskim LGTM

that's new. somebody ask me to merge change of CNAME for github page

@Markos_mom lol, just ask the Monty hall problem. You’d save several paragraphs!

Jane Street Interview Question You are a junior quant at a firm called Rudson Hiver Trading. It is bonus season. You have already put a down payment on a Porsche that you cannot afford. Your boss, a man who communicates only in grunts and sharpe ratios, presents you with three proprietary "Black Box" trading algorithms: Algo A, Algo B, and Algo C. Here are the underlying distributions: One Box contains True Alpha: It is a pure arbitrage opportunity. It prints money. It has a Sharpe of 5.0. It is the Holy Grail. Two Boxes contain "Overfitted Noise": These are strategies that looked great in the backtest because they accidentally correlated with the phases of the moon and the price of decorative gourds. In live trading, they will suffer a 100% drawdown instantly. The execution desk is run by The Market Maker. He is an omnipresent HFT algorithm that sees all order flow. He knows which box holds the Alpha and which boxes are just random Gaussian noise dressed up in a suit. You run your Python script and blindly allocate your entire firm's leverage (100x) into Algo A. The Market Maker sees your order. He knows the truth. Because of "regulatory requirements" (the rules of the game), he must provide liquidity. He cannot liquidate your position in Algo A yet. He cannot show you the True Alpha (because then everyone would trade it). So, the Market Maker intentionally front-runs Algo B and drives it into the ground. MARGIN CALL! The screen flashes red. Algo B has just imploded. It turns out Algo B was just longing tech stocks whenever it rained in Seattle. It is now worthless. The Market Maker pings your terminal with a message: "We see you are long Algo A. We have just proven that Algo B is statistically insignificant garbage. Do you want to hold Algo A, or rotate your entire book into Algo C?"

@elonmusk Institutions are the strength of democracy!

The reason government programs are so inefficient is that, unlike a commercial company, the feedback loop for improvement is broken, because they have a state-mandated monopoly and can’t go out of business if customers are unhappy. No matter how bad the service is at your DMV (sorry to pick on DMVs), you still have to use your DMV, because it’s a monopoly.

@GergelyOrosz I just can't believe Postman is a cloud product. I've developed web services for 10 years. Maybe I'm missing out on some great functionality, but curl and an filesystem is all I've ever needed.

Some of the most unexpected fallouts of an AWS outage: 1. Postman stopped working: an API development tool built to be an alternative to simple tools like curl. 2. Eight Sleep customers couldn’t use their beds to change positions / set or keep temperature

@DavidLochhead1 @interesting_aIl @elonmusk It's economically infeasible. Musk doesn't care, he promoted it for attention, capitalized on it with The Boring Company, then bilked Vegas into creating a tunnel. When he talks, it's not an engineer, but a snake oil salesmen.

I think Hyperloop is a project that @elonmusk wishes would quietly go away and be forgotten about. I will give that it is physically possible to make it work on that scale , ignore some glaring obstacles. Who is going to come rescue you 1000 miles along in a tube under the ocean if it breaks down ? You would be in that damn tube for a week before getting extracted. It is possible to transmit the power required for the lighting , ventilation and the coil over those vast distances. The system would need to run 24/7 for at least the ventilation , heating (it's under the ocean so the whole tube would have to be heated 365 days per year) and lighting. The power requirements of that single NYC to London would be nothing short of obscene once you power up that behemoth of a coil. So I got potential for death being not zero in a significant way. There is also a continent sized electric bill that someone's gotta pay. That's going to be a $10,000 "subway" ride for the operation to break even lol.

Elon Musk's new $20 billion project New York to London in minutes

@shekfu @chrisbrunet @Harvard Ah yes, if life were only as simple as the LLM suggested

@chrisbrunet @Harvard Grok says Harvard could have negotiated with the Trump administration, acted on civil rights for Jewish students, addressed anti-asian bias, or cut admin staff etc. They chose this.

🚨Breaking: @Harvard just announced massive cuts to dozens of its PhD programs, citing “financial pressure.” - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

@Chris99336 @chrisbrunet @Harvard It's a massive economic benefit to the US to invest in science, especially at school like Harvard. We attract the best, we train them with incredible resources, then we can step back and watch them grow the economy. Academic investment is required for our greatness.

@chrisbrunet @Harvard Some of the science reductions I would prefer not happen, unless they're for some really weird woke "sciences" but I'm fine with most of the rest. Science in general is not a leftist idea, they've just put a left spin on all the science they do

@DangItPeople1 @chrisbrunet @Harvard The endowment is to ensure preservation on the timescale of decades. This is bad for Harvard and US academic excellence, but none of it threatens continuity.

@chrisbrunet @Harvard Why do these universities refuse to tap into their endowments? Harvard’s is about $60 BILLION!!

@InternetH0F Cure >>> disease

That time a grandma broke her nose while hiking and didn't want the helivac, but ended up winning a $450,000 lawsuit

@ScottHanson What even is a catch? There's no good definition other than, "what the refs think is best for league"

One of the biggest holes in football rule books…… if this is out of bounds - (which it is b/c of the “heel after the toe”) - then how are “toe drag swag” catches *in bounds* — when *those* heels ABSOLUTELY end up out of bounds? #Conundrum

@P_Dubbin @erikbryn @elonmusk There are objective ways to draw the maps to be fair, like keeping cities/countries/areas together. It's okay for the results to be arbitrary, but arbitrary because they are based on geography and result in a split as close to the R/D ratio as possible.

@erikbryn @elonmusk Districts have to be drawn somehow. No matter how professionally done, the results will always be arbitrary. You just want your side to get another advantage.

Given that the census counts all persons, NOT just all citizens, for purposes of determining the number of House seats, and the disproportionate number of non-citizens in New England, there are technically a negative number of Republicans elected, as seats were taken from red parts of the country

@erikbryn @elonmusk The objective measures of gerrymandering suggest little of it is happening in New England, with only a slight R+ boost to Maine.

@elonmusk Gerrymandering could easily be banned everywhere in America. There have been 3 recent bills to ban gerrymandering: Freedom to Vote Act (2022), For the People Act (2021), Redistricting Reform Act (2024). They were all blocked. Will you support a new law to ban gerrymandering?

@alshakero @benjamistan @GergelyOrosz JPM flagged the email/user lists after a marketing campaign. The response rate was just terrible!

@benjamistan @GergelyOrosz Tbqh I’m not sure how she was caught. She was elaborate

Can we, for a second, appreciate the Director of Engineering who flat out refused to produce falsified data for the founder, telling her that he doesn't think it's legal, refusing further pressuring to do so. So Javice had to contract externally to get the fraud done.

@benjamistan @GergelyOrosz She was hoping that when the music stopped, she'd find a chair: like the real list they had would be useful enough after augmentation, or the bank would just eat the loss and save face. Pretty stupid tho, don't do a fraud when your victim will soon own your emails!

@GergelyOrosz I still don't get how they thought they'd get away with it