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by imcoconut 6y ago
you might find the books I linked in this post helpful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16929156 There are a few different types of roles in the quant world, and number of different types of funds: alph/signal res
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by imcoconut 6y ago
As with most industries, it depends. But junior people typically make in the 200-500K range. Then as you gain experience, develop your own ideas/strategies and are able to manage risk appropriately, the sky is the limit. The closer yo
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by imcoconut 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I've heard many stories like that of your uncle from professional researchers in science, economics, and other fields. This is something that people who have no experience in professional academia and science o
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by imcoconut 7y ago
very cool blog
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by imcoconut 7y ago
Their population demographics are different from ours. We will continue to provide workers and consumers over the coming decades - economy-wide demand will return once the crononavirus threat subsides.
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by imcoconut 7y ago
I actually tend to agree with you philosophically. But practically the outcome of inaction on the fed's part would very likely be disastrous to regular Americans. Think about America during the great depression. Modern fed theory and p
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by imcoconut 7y ago
the forum section of wallstreetoasis is actually pretty good as sort of hn for finance. not as much good content/discussion as here but still enough.
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by imcoconut 7y ago
Actually, the 80/20 portfolio will decrease returns vs the market. It will outperform on a risk adjusted basis, ie have a higher sharpe ratio (maybe). But the highest return portfolio will always be the one that allocates 100% to the h
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by imcoconut 7y ago
I noticed this the other day and was very pleased. Also, if you have touchID then you can use it on safari to autofill login credentials. I just wish safari had an active plugin ecosystem like firefox (or chrome) does.
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by imcoconut 7y ago
excellent post, thank you.
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by imcoconut 7y ago
Have you checked out the dash library by plotly? It's pretty awesome and i use it for a similar purpose. MY dashhboards/charts are pretty basic but there seems to be good support for interactivity and callbacks. https:/&#x2F
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by imcoconut 8y ago
Devra Davis, an epedemiological cancer researcher[1], writes how it often takes decades for the same carcinogens to actually cause tumor growth in humans while it can take just years (or even much shorter) in mice. I dont know exacty when c
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by imcoconut 8y ago
Do you live in NYC? and have you found that it helps?
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by imcoconut 8y ago
The price would definitely move down if you sold 20% of facebook's float. The market doesn't care that you borrowed and are the one selling (as opposed to the party you borrowed it from selling them), all that matters is that 20%
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by imcoconut 8y ago
>However, AirPods don't require the removal of the headphone jack! The removal of the headphone jack is still so consumer hostile This is key. When they removed the disc drive in the macbooks there was a decent argument to be made a
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by imcoconut 8y ago
You should check this out https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio
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Darpa wants brain interfaces for able bodied warfighters(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by imcoconut 8y ago|0 comments
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Why adding bugs to software can make it safer(technologyreview.com)
3 points by imcoconut 8y ago|0 comments
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by imcoconut 8y ago
> But the researchers recognize that their findings are purely observational at this stage and cannot prove a cause and effect of eating too little or too many carbohydrates. Title of the article - "Low and high carb diets increase
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by imcoconut 8y ago
As another user commented, the total cost per year is around ~$34 million which is roughly 5% of the total $600 million they're looking to raise. That 600 million will be invested to target some annual return and as long as that return
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by imcoconut 8y ago
> Do we really need to pay the Kardashians a boatload of money to incentivize them to do whatever it is that they do? That's a good question. I personally don't think so and don't pay them myself. But enough people in our
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by imcoconut 8y ago
This is a very good idea.
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by imcoconut 8y ago
Actually, if you could measure it globally, most institutional investors who measure/benchmark to the US stock market probably use the Russell 1000. You're point is still valid tough regarding cap weighted vs. price weighted.
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by imcoconut 8y ago
Have you seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWWkUzkfJ4M
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by imcoconut 8y ago
Its possible to do so, but it is difficult. A few years of experience in a successful systematic team is extremely helpful. Among many other things, you learn that running a profitable strategy involves the coordination of a number of diffe
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by imcoconut 8y ago
> (There is a small group of researchers who believe viruses may even have come here from outer space, an idea known as panspermia.) Fred Hoyle [1] is one such researcher. He is an astrophysicist who was the first to demonstrate how elem
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by imcoconut 9y ago
> Call me crazy, but I partially blame the dualist world view of the Western world for that, even if most people aren't even aware that they have been raised with a dualist mindset. This whole mind/matter division makes people
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Ask HN: Who is genuinely shocked at the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica situation?
2 points by imcoconut 9y ago|1 comments
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by imcoconut 9y ago
As I understand it, pubmed (and medline) only index a subset of medical research, and excludes most non-medical science research. As Cutler was a chemist, I'm not sure any articles of his would be indexed by pubmed. Scopus, which seems
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by imcoconut 9y ago
There is merit to chelation therapy as a means of eliminating mercury (and other heavy metals including lead) stored in the body, but many protocols, both alternative and conventional, don't consider the full complexities involved and

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