throwawaymath

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by throwawaymath 7y ago
> If not, it seems like we should operate on our best hypothesis with evidence for it, not speculate about unknown unknowns. Nope! We shouldn't. Speculation is precisely what we should do! That's what a critical review of res
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
I wish yours wasn't the only comment talking about this. It saddens me to see articles like this, where causation is imposed on correlation. Everyone "knows" correlation doesn't imply causation, but they only seem to kno
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
I can see a few compelling arguments for it, but personally I'd be very wary of concluding causation from this relationship. The two things are very complicated and have many confounding variables involved. I see it just as likely that
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
That raises profound and fascinating philosophical questions about the nature of knowledge and happiness. I wonder how many of those people would choose to forego the knowledge of what they don't have if it meant they would be happy ag
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Apple actually does. Like I said, that icon is in the article, right after the paragraph I quoted. Look at the images the author included. The author is making the point that this shouldn't take much effort because Apple already uses
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Apple has icons for SSDs. They are shown in the article right after this: > So what should Apple do? Customized icons for different types of drives would be a good start. Time Machine drives get custom icons automatically, as do many ot
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Usually because the strategies which have genuine alpha and consistently outperform are capacity constrained, and so cannot be scaled to handle both. Of course, at RenTech in particular the employee-only fund is the good fund. But that&#x
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Usually top ~20 schools with a bachelors in math or CS. Sometimes Masters or PhD, but those end up working directly in research. The new grads I know aren't actually quants.
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
They work in what's usually termed the "front office." Quant, sure, but also research development (read: trading algorithm implementation).
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
That's not really how it works for software engineers/quants. But in general, yes.
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Some funds share bonuses across the entire firm, while others operate as internally competing pods/teams. I know people at Jump Trading doing spectacularly well because they're on a high performing team. Not everyone does as well.
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
You're talking about banking. I think the context of the original question is actually the buy side, because that's the comment you're replying to. I have not seen any of the typical sell side grind common to investment banki
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Important note: the person you're responding to is talking about the buy side. It's not uncommon to find a work life balance resembling tech in the buy side. For example, it's a popular meme that Citadel has a horrible work l
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Yeah that definitely seems off. I worked at a tech company where approximately half our employees were customer support, and each was paid closer to $30/hour. I don't see how we could have ever paid $15/hour/head for our
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
This is a great comment, but I just want to point out: > Bcrypt is not a KDF and not a hash function This is true, but it's also a good example of what I was saying in my other comment. bcrypt is an example of a password hashing f
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
I don't know of a good source beyond textbooks or papers which focus precisely on the low level crypto details you (rightly) want to avoid. There just isn't much of a need for that kind of nuance most of the time. I also (gently)
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
That's a good point; I was just giving you a handy chart with an explicitly called out platform :)
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Unfortunately, not all password hashing algorithms are key derivation functions. That's just a common design and closely related.
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
I'm not sure I'm following you. I'm also not arguing for or against the results here. I'm just giving you the background to understand the author's point; it's not something they just came up with, it's be
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
There is a comparison of Blake3 to various hash functions (including SHA-2 and SHA-3 families) on AWS c5.metal; see the chart here: https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
That's because the author is using constructive mathematics (i.e. computable analysis instead of standard real analysis). It is true that all computable functions are continuous. Likewise discontinuous real functions aren't comp
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Which post-quantum cryptosystems are more efficient than RSA?
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
I successfully started a 501(c)(3) private foundation for precisely the charitable purpose of "supporting (scientific) open source software" in 2017. The IRS granted it with no questions asked. Also not legal advice, but I liter
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
What's the point being driven at here? Is it minimizing the deaths of Australian wildlife, or is it making a quip about the sheer scale of cat hunting activity? If it's the former, that seems like a bad comparison. The Australian
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Please tell me a few of these objective reasons why someone who puts "country music" on their resume as an interest isn't sending a good signal. As a resume screener you should calibrate your recruiting process to be empirica
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Are you being facetious? I don't think the candidate's favorite music genre is being explicitly used as a job qualification. They're not filtering on it because it's relevant to the job.
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Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on Your Resume(hbr.org)
16 points by throwawaymath 7y ago|10 comments
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Link without paywall: http://archive.is/qDalg
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Alt-Data Industry Showing Cracks(businessinsider.com)
3 points by throwawaymath 7y ago|1 comments
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Considering the people they're explicitly looking for, according to that page: > People who have done well at math competitions (USAMO, IMO, PUTNAM), competition programming (ACM, USACO, codejam, topcoder), science fairs (ISEF, STS

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