Gran finde en @alephhackathon, no ganamos nada pero las risas no faltaron, ademas llegamos a terminar en el tiempo solicitado (todo un logro). Nos llevamos una experiencia 10/10.
Para los que quieran ver la demo del producto que hicimos:
https://t.co/wiySasjShq
Acabo de publicar el primer articulo que escribo en mi vida. Habla sobre un proyecto de machine learning que hice sobre el LoL.
https://t.co/as8I3vKaKV
>be Jim Simons
>born 1938 in Brookline, Massachusetts
>shark eyes, warm smile, galaxy brain
>age 3, realize numbers double infinitely
>age 4, obsessed with Zeno's paradox
>parents: "what is wrong with this kid"
1950s:
>MIT at 17
>graduate in 3 years
>too easy
>Berkeley PhD in 2 years
>thesis is 20 pages
>advisor doesn't know if it's genius or insane
1964:
>join the NSA
>job: crack Soviet codes
>coldest war, hardest puzzles
>you're very good at this
1967:
>write a letter to the New York Times
>call Vietnam "a stupid war"
>NSA: "you can't do that"
>you: "just did"
>fired immediately
1968:
>become math professor at Stony Brook
>age 30, youngest department chair ever
>do actual math
>invent Chern-Simons theory
>physicists use it for decades
>you treat it like a footnote
1978:
>get bored of academia
>everyone says markets are random
>you: "what if that's bullshit"
>start trading with math
1982:
>found Renaissance Technologies
>strip mall office in Long Island
>no suits, no MBAs
>hire physicists, astronomers, codebreakers
>Wall Street experience? disqualifying
1988:
>launch Medallion Fund
>close it to outsiders almost immediately
>only employees can invest
>this matters
the method:
>find patterns humans can't see
>trade thousands of times a day
>tiny edge × massive volume × time = infinite money
>nobody knows exactly how
>employees sign insane NDAs
>secrets go to the grave
the returns:
>66% annually before fees
>39% after fees
>for 30+ years
>not a single losing year
>2008 financial crisis: +82.4%
>best track record in history
>better than Buffett, Soros, everyone
>not even close
the money:
>net worth hits $31 billion
>all from math
>no oil, no inheritance
>just patterns in the noise
tragedy:
>son Paul died in 1996 bicycle accident
>son Nicholas drowns in 2003
>two sons gone
>pour billions into autism research, math education, basic science
May 2024:
>die at 86
>never wrote a memoir
>never explained how Medallion works
>never needed credit
the codebreaker who cracked the market.
66% a year.
30 years.
the greatest investor who ever lived
and nobody knows how he did it.