Ben Gimpert

systematic long/short equities, ex-BlackRock, co-founded AI startup Something Modern (→ Altos Research), made Hipsteraunt & Quant Fund or Metal Band?

[Ben Gimpert @someben]

https://t.co/5C2fkc56KY

[Ben Gimpert @someben]

Goldman prime: from Covid throuhg 2025, stock pickers, quants, and multi-strats never all fell >80bps on the same day. In 2026 it’s happened three times: 4 Feb, 28 Jul, 15 Oct. Yeah umm if they’re all rocked by the same thing, they’re all in the same trade.

[Ben Gimpert @someben]

moving away from this account to @someben, to match new blog at http://blog.someben.com/

[Ben Gimpert @someben]

unfortunate confusion between lots of data available, and useful data inference. Nice healthcare contest, though. #data2con

[Ben Gimpert @someben]

yup, Colbert doing "Friday" on Fallon with The Roots might be the end of irony. Or the beginning. http://tinyurl.com/3c4uhqw

[Ben Gimpert @someben]

@TaraTeich @EightBit love the sweatshirt strings!

[Ben Gimpert @someben]

good riddance Bytemark hosting. It has been seven years of mediocre, overpriced and ideological "service."

[Mike Simonsen 🐉 @mikesimonsen]

Ten years, $100M sales. Pandora founder, CEO, visionary left with 2% of his company at IPO. http://altos.it/hivgDt #perilsofVC

[Ben Gimpert @someben]

wow I totally want to see Cowboys & Aliens.

[Ben Gimpert @someben]

the art is nailed down in our suite in Orlando. And that about sums is up.

[Ben Gimpert @someben]

am not too jaded to be nonplussed about having wifi & power inflight. En'route to Orlando for a product launch. Anyone in Florida this week?

[Ben Gimpert @someben]

the #strata "data exhaust" talk by @peteskomoroch is good stuff. Best practices on data scrubbing, thankfully buzzword -light.

[Ben Gimpert @someben]

O'Reilly's schwag for #strata speakers is Potter's new book on cooking. @tomcoates is right, the keynotes are seriously dopey.

[Ben Gimpert @someben]

the Code for America open house sorta frantic and totally inspiring. Go team Philly, woot.

[Ben Gimpert @someben]

my friend Adam Haslett's story in the FT on sentences: http://tinyurl.com/4c77c9t

[Ben Gimpert @someben]

dear UX "creatives": Stop using minimalist icons instead of proper i18n. You are not Photoshop.

[Ben Gimpert @someben]

closing my Shittybank UK accounts via telephone was a hilarious ping pong of "you seriously think I'll say that over the phone?!"

[Ben Gimpert @someben]

speaking on machine learning at Strata next month, at 11:30am on Feb. 3rd in Santa Clara. Contact me for 25% off. http://tinyurl.com/4sxvc4h

[Ben Gimpert @someben]

at Ames, about to take off in a zeppelin for sunny Bay Area viewing.