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jeffreyrogers
11,350karma·2,915submissions·March 8, 2014
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Hedge Fund -> Defense Industry -> Big Tech
My career has mostly been at the intersection of hardware and software (including a couple of years designing FPGA gateware) and focused on designing and developing correct, performant systems, but I've been paid to do everything from PCB design to React frontends.
I also have an interest in improving clinical trials for novel therapeutics.
email: jeffreyrogers27@gmail.com
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IIRC they have done trials of this on some exchanges. It didn't make a big difference either way. The opening and closing auctions are already sort of done the way you describe.
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Sorry, I don't have references off the top of my head. I just recall coming across it while I was working on something related to timeseries forecasting.
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There has been some work on training on lots of different data sets and then specializing on the one you care about. But I think people were trying that approach pre-2022 as well.
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Psychiatrist is an MD (or DO) who has completed residency and can prescribe drugs. You can find therapists who have PhDs who are equal to or superior to psychiatrists in their knowledge and skills. I …
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I think he is saying that since digital advertising generates so much revenue the best sales and marketing professionals (by revenue generated) are the engineers, data scientists, and PMs who develop …
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Even in the top 0.1% many are self made. My comment wasn't about whether they are self-made or not (and many people who got a head start in life have done very impressive things, one of the surge…
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> There's an ongoing debate over whether or not people skills are undervalued, and perhaps for many people they are, but it's hard to deny that there are many, many more ways for someone …
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Most of the tech companies generate their revenue from their core businesses. For Google it's ~80% from ads, and probably even more of their profit comes from Ads. The history of companies being …
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The commercially available solvers may be using CFR, but they are not anywhere near as strong as Pluribus because Pluribus pre-computed solutions for a reduced state space, then mapped the hand and ac…
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There is a $7.5k tax credit which definitely counts as savings. The gas savings are more speculative, and it's debatable if that's reasonable to count (many people compare lifetime cost of o…
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Gen Z has fat tails, it will produce both great investors and great traders of all types.
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It might just mean your skills weren't appropriate for the role you were hired for. It doesn't mean you did anything wrong.
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Many people refinanced in the last few years to take advantage of low rates and take money out of their homes.
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Well their kids could live in them, or sell it and buy a different house to live in. Forecasting what the effect of that supply will be on prices seems hard to me. Housing units per capita is lower th…
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Yes I understand all that. My point is that both supply and demand are low right now because you can't trade up in this market unless you can pay cash. But low supply eventually leads to increasi…
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If someone sells a house for less than they purchased it their equity available to purchase another house decreases. Since mortgage rates have increased that means they can only afford a smaller/…
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Unless the housing supply increases this will just be a temporary thing. As long as people are able to make their mortgage payments they typically won't sell their homes at a loss (even if their …
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The SEC investigated them a long time ago and determined that their trades were legitimate but just done in convoluted ways. There is a recent NYT piece that covers it. There's a new book about B…
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People overestimate ageism in tech because the number of tech jobs has grown so rapidly. That means there are a lot more young people in the industry than there are old people, and they wrongly interp…
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The "quick buck" thing is a catchy meme but not really reflected in the statistics. While there are notable examples of companies that have been destroyed by PE investors they are rare and a…
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It depends on the PE firm and the company, but the median PE acquisition outperforms its peer group even after the PE firm has exited. Of course there are plenty of cases where that hasn't happen…
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Business and markets run on trust. The less trust you have the more overhead you have to verify that every claim your counterparty makes is true. That's expensive and means some worthwhile things…
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I'll believe it when it happens. Banks/creditors don't want to operate these assets (no expertise there) and since the businesses are fundamentally sound for the most part there is no r…
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Because is secured by the company and serviced by the cash flows from the company. Since the debt only exists if the transaction (acquisition of the target company) goes through it is really the compa…
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Hostile takeovers are a very small fraction (single digit percentage) of PE buyouts and have been for a long time. And if taking on debt were so advantageous in and of itself you would think the execu…
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It's still how many new businesses raise capital. That's how the biotech industry works for example. (In biotech VC just gets you to the IPO stage and you don't cash out at IPO since ty…