Yiannis Simillides

Quant in commodities, prev software @complyadvantage, PhD @imperialmecheng

[Brian Albrecht @BrianCAlbrecht]

There’s another path

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Things can be rationed in one of four ways:

Price
Queue
Lottery
Political favour

Societies have tried each of these mechanisms of thing-distribution over the centuries.

Only one of them incentivises more production, and therefore more for everyone.

[Caleb Watney @calebwatney]

Explain your ideology in one chart (okay actually three)

[Yiannis Simillides @YSimillides]

@CYSTAT_EN Hi, can you confirm which average you have used? (Mean, median etc). Thanks!

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

This is a poverty mindset.

We should have so much cheap, abundant energy that everyone can afford to cool their home.

[Matt Turck @mattturck]

Doordash acquiring SevenRooms for $1.2B, an unprecedented $171M per room. We're so back.

[George Mack @george__mack]

My most contrarian belief:

We could increase the global economy by 2-3% by installing large whiteboards in every home.

[Gratam Baratrum @GratamBaratrum]

My whole life I've believed that choosing to end one's life painlessly and legally in the case of terminal or unbearable chronic illness should be possible, but seeing how it's gone in Canada I have very little faith that any legislation would get it right.

[Sam Dumitriu @Sam_Dumitriu]

I agree with Rupert that having a massive VAT cliff edge is a disincentive to grow.

I disagree that the solution is to create an even bigger VAT cliff edge.

[Frances Lorenz @frances__lorenz]

Remember when AI researchers used to be like, "this is a neural network, isn't it cool? It can say DOG or CAT if you show it a DOG or a CAT :)" and now they're like, "we're gonna make God before China does" okay

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

I think an easy planning and environmental ‘win’ would be to stop requiring people to get their neighbours’ permission to install visually near-identical double glazing in listed buildings.

[Mark Wallace @wallaceme]

“The highest performing country outside East Asia” in maths @Samfr reports. A huge achievement, which will echo through society for decades as the kids benefiting from it go through life. Hopefully we might see an end to sneering at the idea there have been genuine successes in education policy

[Anthony Bonato @Anthony_Bonato]

Um

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Thus always in Silicon Valley.

[Jack Fifield @jackfifield]

if railcard in ["16-25", "26-30"] and cost < 12:
print("Not valid before 10am most weekdays, see Railcard restrictions.")
else:
print("Travel any time of day.")

Happy to licence this code to rail operators for a fee - DM me.

[Γ(z) @gammaofzeta]

Prove you are smart.

Just 1/(every single person alive since mid XVII C) can solve this. Hint: you may need to make use of the modularity theorem for elliptic curves. 😏

[Benjamin Lewis @tc1415]

The first point here is much more important than people sometimes want to realise.

Typos on safety critical things evince a risk of general lack of care and attention.

It's why I get animated about code comments with typos in really mission critical paths.