dmckinno

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1-Year RSU Grants Are for Suckers or Quantifying the Option Value of the 4-Year(ddmckinnon.com)
4 points by dmckinno 2y ago|0 comments
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In Life, One Sometimes Makes Bad Deals(rahulsingireddy.com)
1 points by dmckinno 2y ago|0 comments
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by dmckinno 2y ago
Healthcare is a slippery slope. Don’t tax hospitals, but tax pharmaceutical companies? Don’t tax pharmaceutical companies, but tax the income of doctors? I think the point of the article is that it’s really hard to make these judgments and
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A product manager who worked at Meta and Google reveals which company is best(businessinsider.com)
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Product at Meta vs. Google or How to Evaluate Your {Google,Meta} Offer(ddmckinnon.com)
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by dmckinno 2y ago
I'm not a huge online shopper, but if the item isn't a total commodity that I just buy from Amazon without thinking, I generally ask Perplexity for suggestions and find the summaries/conclusions more helpful than clicking thr
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by dmckinno 2y ago
I thought that this earnings announcement would be the first one where we'd see some impact from competitive knowledge engines, e.g. Perplexity, You.com, ChatGPT + Bing, etc., but Google still grew search $6B/15%. This is impressi
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by dmckinno 3y ago
I completed the ML specialization for Georgia Tech's online CS MS program ( https://omscs.gatech.edu/ ) a few year ago and found it tremendously valuable. I can't say that it changed the trajectory of my career, but
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Transitioning to Product Management(ddmckinnon.com)
1 points by dmckinno 3y ago|0 comments
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Y Google Cloud?(ddmckinnon.com)
5 points by dmckinno 3y ago|1 comments
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Foundation models, internet-scale data, and the path to generalized robots(lukasholoubek.com)
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by dmckinno 3y ago
In theory, yes, the tokens should be transferable between the blockchain and the CEX, but this link breaks all the time and for various reasons (see the crypto problems section). Lots of things that “should” happen in regular, efficient mar
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by dmckinno 3y ago
Thanks! Maybe I'll dig deep and pull off an annually published one :-)
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by dmckinno 3y ago
Can confirm that this was a side quest, but I believe that the distraction did slow down progression in my real job.
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by dmckinno 3y ago
It's definitely a lot of work to build these systems (but also fun if you are competitive and like math/cs puzzles). While the margins are thin in stat arb, the absolute profits are not and risk-adjusted (but not time-adjusted) re
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by dmckinno 3y ago
I defined stat arb in the glossary at the end but probably should have included a more obvious link. TL;DR: this is a pairs trading strategy that relies on the (very strong) statistical assumption that the price of a token on a centralized
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by dmckinno 3y ago
Thanks! I'm glad that you enjoyed it.
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On climbing the stat arb leaderboard, comparative advantage, and careers(ddmckinnon.com)
82 points by dmckinno 3y ago|24 comments
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Colorado Product Foundation Salary Survey(coloradoproduct.com)
1 points by dmckinno 4y ago|0 comments
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Fascinating insider look at a MEV operation which was ~90% of the market on AVAX(twitter.com)
1 points by dmckinno 4y ago|0 comments
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All Is Fair in Arb and MEV on Avalanche C-Chain(ddmckinnon.com)
2 points by dmckinno 4y ago|0 comments
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by dmckinno 6y ago
The author noticed that: 1/ Prices move after large trades are confirmed 2/ An variety of sandwich bots have sprung up to take advantage of this behavior by detecting the trade in the mempool (before confirmation), front running t
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Wrecking sandwich traders for fun and profit(github.com)
269 points by dmckinno 6y ago|168 comments
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by dmckinno 6y ago
It is possible to use any camera that can display its FOV on a computer screen as we webcam with OBS and OBS-VirtualCam. I've been using a Sony a6300 as a webcam for a few months now and it works great without any hardware beyond the U