wishart_washy

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by wishart_washy 8y ago
^This. It feels like some cheap ML recreating a fund-of-funds with some shorts that limit exposure.
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by wishart_washy 8y ago
This topic is so endlessly fascinating because it encapsulates debates on meritocracy, privilege, wealth, and recruiting that have a ripple effect across a lifetime. I attended an Ivy and a lot of the stereotypes are true. The varsity athle
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by wishart_washy 8y ago
It's "lacrosse"... which I guess proves your point
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by wishart_washy 8y ago
I left EE and became a full-stack developer! No complaints about JavaScript here. Verilog should just switch to lambdas and get it over with.
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by wishart_washy 8y ago
Notes from the ground here. My undergrad was in EE at an "elite" school - I can say definitively that ~50% of the MS/Ph.d. students in EE were from China (with the other 50% largely from India). They TA'd many of the gra
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by wishart_washy 8y ago
From any options theory class you'll learn that you can create any complex position you want with options. If you want to synthetically create a future just buy a put and call at the same strike price, etc. And all of this is really in
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by wishart_washy 8y ago
And when the agreement completes they'll each gain +200 science.
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by wishart_washy 9y ago
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/libor-scandal/
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by wishart_washy 9y ago
"even in research"? I agree with everything but this last point. Research is almost exclusively dominated by doctoral graduates - it wouldn't be reasonable to expect to land in a research position without a graduate degree.
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by wishart_washy 9y ago
As someone who uses Stan - I would recommend reading the Stan reference documentation, it's essentially a textbook. Also, get used to reading the Stan forums on Discourse. Happy Stanning
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by wishart_washy 9y ago
This comment cuts to basic point. Positions vaguely labeled "Senior AI researcher" are for research directors, not engineers. Taking a Udacity ML class and "teaching yourself some linear algebra" and Python is similar to
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by wishart_washy 9y ago
This is an exaggeration. Total compensation for returning interns at FANG may approach 120k salary, with stock plans and bonus compensation that max out at 20k additional value per year. Even algorithmic trading or strats-quant positions ra