The EE/IC Design part of me loves this for trying to build a community around what is typically a very opaque and secretive industry. The social justice / millenial part of me hates this for being funded by high frequency trading, of all things. What a colossal waste of resources.
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there were always two possibilities about why math/STEM stuff was important to these people like Jane Street or whatever:
- they sincerely need to apply theoretical math to, i don't know, better exploit trading rules.
- this stuff was always a shibboleth to select for a certain kind of person.
Okay, what kind of person? it helps to be that kind of neurodivergent, because it's easier to be unethical if it furthers your special interest. like yeah, obviously it's a huge waste of resources and time, and if you just erased the total output of Jane Street, Two Sigma, Citadel, whatever, literally nothing of value would be lost.
the sad thing is, do we need any of this? like what does this say about "puzzle solving?" puzzle solving has nothing to do with problem solving. why do we call it problem solving? all of our problems are political. nobody at Jane Street solves any problems whatsoever, they only seem to create them!
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there were always two possibilities about why math/STEM stuff was important to these people like Jane Street or whatever:
- they sincerely need to apply theoretical math to, i don't know, better exploit trading rules.
- this stuff was always a shibboleth to select for a certain kind of person.
Okay, what kind of person? it helps to be that kind of neurodivergent, because it's easier to be unethical if it furthers your special interest. like yeah, obviously it's a huge waste of resources and time, and if you just erased the total output of Jane Street, Two Sigma, Citadel, whatever, literally nothing of value would be lost.
the sad thing is, do we need any of this? like what does this say about "puzzle solving?" puzzle solving has nothing to do with problem solving. why do we call it problem solving? all of our problems are political. nobody at Jane Street solves any problems whatsoever, they only seem to create them!