quantumofalpha

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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
Well, you need just one NAT to be cooperative, like a full cone. There's enough legitimate interest in NAT traversal that big NAT deployments like CGNATs tend to cooperate Traversing non-cooperative fully symmetric NATs, which randomiz
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
> I can't see how the post you linked actually does the NAT traversal... It assumes full-cone NAT - you punch a hole once by sending a packet to a third party, like a stun server which will along the way tell you your external ip:po
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
> To connect between NATted hosts, you need control of a host that is not Um, no? https://github.com/samyk/pwnat
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
You could hit $1M+ as a quant in trading with bonus tied to PnL. There are quite a few shops in London as it's a major finance hub outside US. £100k is easy to achieve in pretty much any faang - https://www.levels.fyi/c
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
Yes, but that's more akin to stock picking. Individual stocks also don't always recover. In fact a large part of market growth is historically driven by relatively few stocks. Make your life simple and choose something like MSCI W
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
The same data will also tell you that the market always recovers and eventually reaches new all time highs. In the long term (10+ years horizon) it's not that risky, at least talking about pure economic crashes. I'm more worried a
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
There's a whole world besides the Silicon Valley bubble and in most of it homes don't cost nowhere near that much. In my home city in europe a decent couple bedroom flat in middle of the city goes for about $30-50k. If you want to
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
Saving $130k a year with 10% investment return (totally feasible this decade) would have done the trick > sum(130*1.1**i for i in range(6)) 1003.0293 I was in Zurich - life's cheaper than in the Bay, lower rents and taxes,
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
$1M should provide you some $30-40k a year in perpetuity. That's actually pretty decent retirement money in most parts of the world, somewhere in the top few percent of the world population by income. But of course, $2M would be better
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
Hit $1M after about 6 years at FAANG
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
>I am from ... germany Well there's your problem. Extremely few well paying (say $150k+) jobs and crazy taxes don't exactly encourage wealth accumulation. Try Bay Area - with tech salaries there and stocks growth being what the
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
A rule of thumb (from trinity study) is you need a lump sum of 25x yearly expenses to retire and live off investment income. So with 1M you'd have a $40k/y budget. It can be enough (a lot of people in the world live on much less t
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
> The "key thing" that lead me to code my own is that with nearly all the solutions I tried, data was resent over network when a big file is moved to another dir+renamed, WHEN used in encrypted-at-rest mode. restic (and i suppo
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
restic, borg, even plain rclone. plenty of backup tools exist with encryption at rest, what's the key selling point of yours? I use rclone+restic because of google drive(=cheap unlimited storage) integration in rclone, and restic provi
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
Definitely needs a breakdown by speed, e.g. what's the average cost to get 1-10 / 10-100 / 100-1000 Mbit, etc else this is all meaningless apples to oranges comparison. I lived in Switzerland and there ~ $50 a month (with som
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
And that's how you know that your VPN and adblockers work :)
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
Eh, don't bother reading any financial literature that other commentators suggest you for this competition. With anonymized input data and even the nature of the problem (is it even short or long term prediction? the two are very diffe
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
It's privately owned - the firm trades the executives' (partners) capital. Wlb depends on the role. As a quant you won't have a life in any firm, as an SWE I heard it's decent for the pay.
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
How about being able to go buy stocks/ETFs paying nothing in commissions and razor thin spreads today? A few decades ago you'd pay O($10-100) per trade and then some in bid/ask This is all largely thanks to HFT. Robinhood is
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
Their pay is top tier, $300-400k+ for new grads.
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
On a frozen feature set and evaluation dataset, sure. 3000+ competitors vs a few employees at JS who prepped this data. In light of very noisy data, the chances are not really on JS side here. But would the best model still be as useful on
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by quantumofalpha 6y ago
+1 so much this Jane Street is a high frequency firm. In this domain execution & infrastructure matters as much if not more than your algo secret sauce. What good is kagglers' favorites giant boosted bagged lightgbm/xgboost&