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Finn Hulse
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Finn Hulse
@finn_hulse
building the safety net for the singularity :3
Joined November 2024
Replying to @tonspam66fun fact my dad was the only guy at harvard who could teach certain post-tonal music theory classes bc he was so naturally talented but it actually kind of drove him insane in his career bc his composing wasn't up to his own standard he now works at whole foods- Replying to @finn_hulse and @tonspam66the full story is crazy; his evil stepdad sold his piano (he taught himself music on it), burned his sheet music and hid his acceptance letters to try to force him down a path and set a role model for his 7 siblings. but he broke free, put himself thru school and became a beast
- one of my favorite stories from SIG happened on my first day when the CEO (28th richest guy in the world) gave the interns his big inaugural speech and threw out a crazy math problem
- one time i accidentally gave the most evil guy i know a job at IMC because i cracked his entire internship in one math problem
- i've never seen a scummier piece of journalism than the matt levine article defending jane street finally got around to monitoring the situation (been busy building trading platform) he is fully in their back pocket, lemme explain
- spent last weekend in SF and felt my social abilities plummet in real time i hadn't realized this before—it's not just that SF selects for awkward people, it's that an environment of awkward people actually propagates intense awkwardness case in point, i took a date (who is not
- Replying to @DeGatchiif you're reading this book seriously you should be able to take some time to understand this section deeply, and then answer your own question people always assume algebra is insanely deep but it's just layers of patterns
- market intuition question: imagine the "S&P 1" instead of the 500 highest market cap stocks it purely holds the highest market cap stock (rotating whenever that stock is dethroned) how would this ETF have performed over the last 50 years?
- Replying to @finn_hulsethis kind of thing is insanely cool, he also had a nice proof he showed me (and then he asked me how i heard about SIG so i blabbered his ear off about my best friend and how SIG should hire him) here is a good paper to read more abt it if ur interested math.dartmouth.edu/~doyle/docs/wa…
- Replying to @finn_hulsethe trick is from peter winkler, one of the best mathematicians i know: essentially, random walks can be represented by electrical networks, and tricky “statistics” such as % of reaching a node can be neatly represented with basic concepts like resistance, voltage, etc.
- Today, we're opening up an early beta preview for Deskhead, the first intelligent trading platform. It's free for all traders, and you can connect almost any brokerage account. Here's a short walk-through of the initial features:
00:00 - me in the investor call reading the cluely script of doom bc an intern pushed a new system promptIt’s time.
00:00 - Replying to @aashwindev @cluely and @im_roy_leethis actually looks eerily similar to a project i’m workin on, congrats man!
