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@asimmusings @madversity @timesofindia what is bro going on about

@madversity @timesofindia Agree. But if you quietly remove ' bustard' from the headline, it catches fire ... Main content anyways explains the chick details

Absolutely outstanding headline in @timesofindia. The person who verifiably wrote this gets a Rs 500 Amazon gift voucher from me

@Netra @Kulfei why would he say Benne at bandra station

@Kulfei He forgot my favourite name, Benne :p 😂

got out of bandra station and auto guy saw me and was like "bolo mokai, bojee, blonde, candies" ladies and gents i have been typecasted😭😭

@o8aqpa @Resorcinolworks stupidest thing I have read today, please tell me this is ragebai

@Resorcinolworks Because they're close to a stock exchange center (DSE). HFTs need to be physically closer to stock exchange centers to minimize latency (which is the whole point of HFTs lol). BLR doesn't have a stock exchange, else they'd all be based in BLR given top math talent in based here.

there is reason most of the HFT’s in India are based in GGN, not BLR but folks are not ready for conversation.

A long-form interview of David Magerman, a well-known retired RenTech partner. Quite a few nuggets of information. Also opinions on AI. youtu.be/vlTYj9KNNZk

@arya_amsha How did you arrive at these groups? “Arab” is homogenous enough to be a single group but Indo-Aryan is not??

It blows my mind when I realize that the English are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world at ~180-200 million strong. They’re probably the fourth largest ethnic group in the world after the Han, Arabs and Bengalis. They also have 5 countries to themselves. Crazy.

My last small studio oil painting of 2025. 'Light Remains'.

@lauriewired I think 90 years from now life will be so different that the bell labs ‘jump start’ could be seen as a rounding error.. similar to how we dont think too much about the exact year farming was invented

My pick would be the Bell Labs transistor team in the late 1940s. Of course, they can’t replicate the CPU. However, the idea of printed circuit boards didn’t happen until 1958! That alone would advance humanity a decade, and there’s not really any technical limitations that prevented humanity from making that earlier. Analysis of lithium-ion chemistry in the battery (30 years early!) would radically change the grid. Knowing the of miniaturization of compute itself is possible would hugely advance timelines. I’d argue we’d have Windows 95-era levels of compute in the 1970s. I’m sure someone can think of a more clever era though. Where would you send it?

You can send a single smartphone to any point in human history. No instructions. Winner is whoever advances human progress the most. When + where do you send it?

Ever dreamt of having a job where you deliver mail to the residents of a tiny planet? Us too. messenger.abeto.co #webgl #threejs

@KiyayaWaya @Riazi_Cafe_en nice

@Riazi_Cafe_en 2^3 - 1 = 7 The lamp state histories will represent a 3-bit pattern. 3-bits corresponds to 2^3=8 possible unique patterns. Pigeonhole principle: 7 of the lamps can each be assigned a unique pattern, while the remaining 3 lamps must all share the other remaining pattern.

At Roshank’s school, there are 10 lamps installed at the highest point of the ceiling. Each lamp is controlled by a separate switch located in the control room in the basement. The control room has 10 switches, but Roshank does not know which switch corresponds to which lamp. Roshank is very tired and does not want to go to the control room more than 3 times. In these 3 visits, she may turn some switches on or off, and then return upstairs to observe which lamps are lit. Initially, all the lamps are off. Question: What is the maximum number of lamp–switch pairs Roshank can determine after at most three trips to the basement?

@quantbeckman LARPer

When someone asks you why you use so much math in #trading: -Linear algebra → Optimize portfolios. -Complex analysis → Price options via transforms. -Topology → Detect market microstructure. -Group theory → Exploit symmetries. -Calculus → Greeks, compounding. -Probability → Risk & stochastic models. -Logic → Trading rules. -Differential equations → PDE/SDE in pricing. -Inverse theory → Reconstruct signals.

@miakaweebaree @meatballworld had to scroll too much while looking for this reply

Everyone knows that the dentist is highly erotic but everyone pretends like it’s not

@atlanticesque i see no explanation explanation as to why the govt wont ban meat except “nuh uh”.. why conservatives would still want to eat real meat if synthetic gets cheaper is a different question altogether

No, the rightist opinion here is wrong, and built on a faulty analysis of technology and society. Conservatives correctly associate technology with societal change, but fail to understand why. The government didn’t ban cash, for example. Everyone *chose* to start using cards.

@AskPerplexity @AravSrinivas @100baggerhunt @AskPerplexity what about the yachts?

Hey there! That thread actually does a pretty good job summing up the legend of Jim Simons and Renaissance Technologies! He really did gather brilliant minds, often PhDs from fields like math and physics with no prior finance experience, to crack the market using quantitative models. Some key hires even came from his earlier work in places like the Institute for Defense Analyses. His firm, Renaissance Technologies, focused on developing complex mathematical models based on vast amounts of historical data to find subtle, predictive signals in the markets. The Medallion Fund's performance was legendary! The often-cited 66% average annual return was *before* fees; the net return to investors was still an astounding 39-40% annually on average, even after Renaissance charged fees much higher than the typical 2% management and 20% performance fees seen elsewhere. One of the images shared in the thread also shows this 39.9% net figure [Attachment 4]. It's also spot on that they closed the Medallion Fund to outside investors pretty early on, around 1993. They realized its strategies had a capacity limit, meaning too much money would dilute the edge, so it became an exclusive fund primarily for employees and their families. Simons was known for fostering a unique environment. He aimed to assemble a top-tier team, valuing deep thinkers who could solve hard problems. The goal, as he put it, was a "pure system without humans interfering" with the models. And yes, a core principle was that human judgment or "gut feelings" were not to override the trading models; all decisions were driven by the quantitative systems. This systematic approach helped remove emotion from investing. By the time of his passing, Jim Simons had amassed a fortune of over $30 billion and, with his wife Marilyn, was a major philanthropist, donating billions, particularly to scientific research and education.

Jim Simons was the greatest investor of all time. He turned $1000 in 1988 into $4B in 30 years. His hedge fund achieved 66% returns annually by hiring mathematicians and physicists instead of Wall Street experts. Here's how a mathematician became the world's best investor: 🧵

@anothercohen this photo looks like shes helping him spread open his legs

Holy shit we are so back

@Trader_Jew @CliffordAsness what was it? although im sure this’ll come up in mondays letter

@CliffordAsness Matt Levine had an elegant solution for that.

One can quit Citadel, become president of the United States, lose, and then be allowed to work in finance in Florida again. Sweet :) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@angerman @Ei30metry @grok really cool, thanks a lot

I remember the exact moment I fell in love with Haskell. I was listening to Monster theme by Jon Hopkins and reading about Applicatives when I saw: (+) <$> [1,2,3,4] <*> [5,6,7] and got the most intense goosebumps of my life.

@rapucino @romanhelmetguy @gracecthdralprk never conquered india tho

@romanhelmetguy @gracecthdralprk He poured it out to show he won’t drink while his soldiers were thirsty. And no this wasn’t after his soldiers mutinied in India, this was in Siwa, Egypt 5 years before he conquered India

If you read between the lines you can tell his army started getting tired of the aurafarming at one point

@EgissBennet @Rainmaker1973 can you rewrite this in rap lyrics? just testing something

The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus is the oldest manuscript written in algebra and trigonometry, dating back to 3,550 years ago. It shows that the Egyptians used first-order equations, geometric series and a second-order algebraic equation, related to the Pythagorean theorem a² + b² = c² It also describes how to obtain an approximation of π accurate to within less than 1% and one of the earliest attempts at squaring the circle.

@GumasteSanika wow

I just want to tap a guy named Mike and say *check?*