This is AWESOME... Some guy just sequenced his entire DNA genome on his kitchen table 🧬🧪
It tells his cancer risk, drug responses, what his kids will inherit, and which diseases are coming decades before the symptoms.
Your genome is a 3.2 billion letter source code that predicts more about your health than any other test in existence. Almost no one has ever read their own.
This used to require a hospital, a specialist, and a referral that most doctors won't write. The raw data would sit in a medical record you'd never see.
Until now.
Here's how he did it:
→ Rubbed a cheek swab against the inside of his mouth for 60 seconds
→ Extracted the DNA from his cells using a $150 kit
→ Prepped the DNA for sequencing with enzymes that attach a motor protein to each strand
→ Loaded the sample onto a nanopore device the size of a highlighter, plugged into a MacBook
The device works by pulling single strands of DNA through holes one atom wide. As each letter passes through, it changes the electrical resistance in a tiny but measurable way. A neural network listens to the signal and reconstructs the sequence. 48 hours later, he had his full genome on his hard drive.
The data never touched a server. No spit kit in the mail. No company owning his most sensitive biological information. No risk of the whole thing getting auctioned off in a bankruptcy, which is exactly what happened to 23andMe's 15 million customers earlier this year.
AI is unlocking personal health in a way that has been impossible. We're still so early.
YOU WILL NOT BECOME A QUANT
not because you're stupid. not because you don't have access to information
all the content is freee - MIT posted Strang's linear algebra course, Harvard gives away probability theory PDFs, Stanford - optimization
u won't become a quant because you dont have the discipline to solve 200 textbook problems in a row
cuz the moment you see an integral, your brain says "tooooooo hard" and you open TikToooook
while you're watching another 5-minute video "how I made $10K in a day trading crypto," a guy your age is sitting down deriving the BlackScholes equation from scratch.
nooot copying. Nooot googling the solution. takes a blank sheet, writes dΠ = rΠ dt, and an hour later he has the formula that underpins a trillion dollar derivatives industry on his desk
in 18 months he'll be making $300K-$500K u'll be complaining on Twitter that "markets are manipulated" and "the rich always win"
the difference isnt luck. the difference is that when he saw conditional probability P(A|B), he didn't close the article
he sat down and solved 50 problems until it became intuitive. and you read the definition, said "got it" and moved on. Spoiler: you didn't get it
here's the truth nobody tells you: Jane Street, Citadel, HRT - they're not looking for smart people they're looking for people who can sit on one problem for 6 hours and not give up
cuz in real trading, nobody's going to hand you a ready solution. The market is 5,000 simultaneous equations with 50,000 variables, and they're all changing every millisecond
the average Jane Street employee made $1.4 million per year in 2025. That's AVERAGE. Not top trader. Not a legend. Just a regular guy who knows what eigenvalue decomposition is and isn't afraid to use it
and you? You still think trading is about "feeling the market move"" That if you post cool profit screenshots on Telegram, someone will believe you know what you're doing
quants don't feel. Quants calculate. While you're guessing "will Bitcoin go up or down," they've already calculated that at current volatility σ=0.65, correlation with S&P ρ=0.43, and accounting for conditional probability based on onchain metrics, the expected value of going long is negative. So they short. And they take your money
this article gives you the entire roadmap. literally step-by-step what to learn, which books to read, what code to write. All free. All accessible. 18 months at 2 hours per day
but you won't start. because lvl 1 homework is "solve all problems from chapters 1-6 of Blitzstein's textbook" that's 150+ problems. and your brain has already found an excuse: "I don't need this, I'll just trade patterns"
okay. keep going. keep blowing up accounts and believing "next time I'll get lucky" And somewhere, a guy who's sitting today deriving Itô's lemma will be making your annual salary in a month in 2 years
and the funniest part? You'll read this text, feel a sting, maybe even tell yourself "damn, I need to get serious" u'll open the textbook. You'll see the first formula
and you'll close it
cuz you don't want to BE a quant. You want to LOOK LIKE a quant. And those are different things