smabie

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by smabie 1y ago
The original sin of Pandas is row indices
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by smabie 2y ago
People outside the industry just use that as cope because they making way less money. "How do you live with yourself making high 6 fig / 7 figs a yr?" Quite easily in fact.
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by smabie 2y ago
Don't most array languages have first class functions?
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by smabie 2y ago
LTCM wasn't really an options selling fund though selling equity options did become a big trade for them Also they were more of advisors in the fund then anything else
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by smabie 2y ago
Safer bet would be to hold short term treasures.
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by smabie 2y ago
Why? the mean can be negative?
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by smabie 2y ago
Turns out mediocre code is fine most of the time though
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by smabie 2y ago
Or you could beat the guy up
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by smabie 2y ago
With a 10% edge you really don't need to be very good And in fact if these guys were good they wouldn't be banning people at all
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by smabie 2y ago
Actually in reality these so called professionals will diagnose you almost immediately
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by smabie 2y ago
Or maybe they don't need an abstraction and just think they do because it's easier than the alternative.
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by smabie 2y ago
Having had a few interactions with the Indonesian government, the Netherlands should have just kept them.
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by smabie 2y ago
Maybe the art carved by the modern desert racers is better anyways
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by smabie 2y ago
No chance they spend the most on leisure activities. Definitely it's baby boomers.
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by smabie 2y ago
People like to play these games and thus probably good for societies World would be pretty full without competitive games / sports
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by smabie 2y ago
Could they ever operate without the gambling?
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by smabie 2y ago
If you're laser focused on a end product then learning can happen remarkably quickly.
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by smabie 2y ago
Useful in society says a lot?
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by smabie 2y ago
Your entire comment basically talks about how a Yale degree means you probably better tho?
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by smabie 2y ago
If you're truly underpaid for your experience and location then you should be able to get a new higher paying job easily. And if you can't easily get one well maybe you aren't underpaid.
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by smabie 2y ago
almost all of them?
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by smabie 2y ago
All quants know pandas. beyond that their technical skills are often quite limited. It makes sense to invest resources into something everyone knows how to use, even if it's suboptimal.
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by smabie 2y ago
Yeah and Finish devs also make a small fraction of what's possible in America
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by smabie 2y ago
In my experience, it's just not that good? I programmed professionally in Lisp (Racket to be specific) for a couple years and while I was initially enthusiastic about it, my enthusiasm for it diminished over time. The heavy line noise
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by smabie 2y ago
You can send everyone not on a list to spam and auto respond with a link to pay you $10 to get on the white list should be doable
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by smabie 2y ago
A better question you could ask is: have you ever wished you could display images on a window
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by smabie 2y ago
Author says Rust wouldn't solve the crowd strike outage but then literally admits that it would have prevented it? This article makes no sense
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by smabie 2y ago
got contacted by a trading firm when one of the founders saw one of my Show HN posts. Was my breakthrough into the quant / hft industry and I now run my own trading firm: that one event massively changed the trajectory of my entire lif
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by smabie 2y ago
So who would sell it to you then? At any given time there's not very many actual natural buyer and sellers for a single security.
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by smabie 2y ago
No one has gone back for real spreadsheet work tho

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