All in @openforage. I thrived in all of the largest hedge funds managing systematic investment processes.
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If you are reasonably optimistic about your future and have done sufficiently difficult things in life - you learn early on that stress often overinflates the severity of the problems you are FEELING.
Things do get better, and time is an excellent salve for everything.
Knowing this, one might be tempted to "skip forward" to the times where everything is "better". The problem with this is that all sufficiently ambitious projects have a string of problems that reveal themselves only when a previous problem is "better".
Thus, thinking this way guarantees a life where you are fast-forwarded to your death bed.
You are in the good old days; even if it doesn't feel like it.
Any job in singapore that ends with “agent” are for bottom feeders and you can’t change my mind.
I swear to god the property agents in Singapore are horrible, basically useless in doing their Job.
I’m surprised that AI hasn’t replaced them
Is there any startup in Singapore to run your property for you?
finding tenants, paperwork, repair management etc?
Would rather pay them the 1 month rent than a useless agent for the same recurring contract
What the girl in red dress is doing is called jumping guard and actually has a high chance of breaking daddy’s knees.
Not recommended to be used on training partners, train safe out there.
Oss.
For most people in life, if I could share one small piece of advice, it is to gather the courage to be more aggressive.
There are many times in life where there will be a show of force by people and circumstances in your life, and you will be given an option to cower and give in; or dig in and fight.
At least once in a while, if fighting is not your first instinct, you should muster whatever courage and spirit you have in you to rage.
It does wonders for your soul to understand you have agency to RAGE against circumstances in life.
"Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
Quite a terrible list in the sense that it does contain gems, but most there are terrible and using this list is no better than using google reviews.
As usual, dm me for some real alpha.
Anyone going to Singapore for Token2049, that needs a list of restaurants and places to go to for dinners here is the list, you are welcome.
Italian:
il Cielo
Amo
Otto
Da Luca
Solo
Griglia 10 to 15
Garys @
Cenzo
Buona Terra %
Brasserie Astoria
Torno Subito %
Spanish/Tapas:
FOC (round table)
Kulto
La Taperia
Olivia
Purabrasa @
Mi casa (clementi)
Bam!
Lolla
Tapas24 @
Japanese:
Sushi Masaaki %
Ginza ichi %
Hanamoto
Esora
Reve #
Hashida
Torasho ramen @
Shin yasuke @
Omakese at stevens # %
Oumi
Sushi Katori
Harzuki
Suzuki
Yakitori/Bbq:
Yazawa
Yorimichi yakitori
Nee yakitori
Jinjo
Batten
Kazu (Lamp Chop & Foie Gras)
Mobomoga @
Akanoya
Pujim
French:
Masion boulud
Poise #
Le bistrot du som @ %
Ce Soir # %
Claudine # %
Brasserie Gavroche # 3, 5, 6, 7
Nicolas le restaurant @
Guthers
Ma Cuisine #
Fusion:
Born #
Jiak kim 13,14,17,19
Hevel
Seroja
Kubo
Willow
Fool 2, 4, 6, 12 #
Cloud street
Club street wine @
Spago
Odette #
Iggys
Sommer dinning
Wakauni
Artemis @ #
Bird of feather
Tippling
Thai & Indian:
The Var
Revolver, 2
Korea:
Nauem
Anju
Chinese:
Madame fan %
Peach Blossom %
San shu gong
Candlenut
Blu
@ is cheap
% can park supercar
# romantic
@token2049
Call me paranoid but I deeply believe that it will be very, very hard for protocols to remain safe without adopting such a view.
This post was bad enough to inspire a short article:
xitter.cf/systematicls/status/21…
I've got an agent in a loop optimizing a renderer with the goal to minimize frame times (and tests to measure). It got times down from 88ms to 2ms and allocations down from ~150K to 500. Sounds good, right? Wrong. This is exactly why agent psychosis is a big fucking problem.
As an experiment, I rewrote the Ghostty core render state in Go, with access to identically laid out data structures as Ghostty and the exact same validation tests. I made a purposely naive renderer (simple, correct, but slow). 88ms per frame with 150,000 allocations (horrendous, lol)!
I then kickstarted a Ralph loop to bring the frame times down. I told it it can't modify input data structures or the public API or tests (they're correct), but it can do anything else it wants. It got to work.
It has worked for about 4 hours. I've spent around $350 on this experiment so far. The results?
88ms => 1.5ms
150K allocs => ~500 allocs
Incredible right? Nope.
My hand-written renderer I ported has frame times (same benchmark) of ~20us (0.020ms) and 0 allocations in the update path.
This is the problem with psychosis and lacking systems understanding. If you don't understand the system, you're going to accept that this is an incredible result. If you understand the system, you'll see better solutions immediately and can do roughly 75x better on throughput.
The people who blindly trust agent output are in the former camp. They're sheeple, overdrinking from a fountain of mediocrity.
Standard disclaimer: I use AI all the time. I like AI. The point I'm making is to not blindly accept results. Think. Analyze. Learn.
What this says is that our internal image of ourselves determine how much we enjoy our lives.
Happy Internal Messaging:
1. I have a lot of fun in all that I do
2. i am high energy
3. I am the master of my fate, captain of my soul
Sad Internal Messaging:
1. I am all alone
2. Everything in life is boring
3. I have no control over anything in life
I can't understand how professional software developers are so attached to days of manually coding.
Was objectively a top-tier software engineer (e.g. hired as a quant dev to build high performance systems) and honestly not having to type another line of code feels like such a good riddance.
People being so forlorn about agents being good at coding is insane to me. You can continue to ride horses as a hobby, no one can take that away from you, but you should be happy for everyone else to have engines.
Coding has and should always (just) be a means to an end. The product was and always *should* be the point. It's undeniable that agents are just objectively better at getting to the point now.
Go ahead and manually write code as a hobby.
Even for quants, as a pm there are many ways you can hurt your career from piss poor decision making in high stress environments: mostly around trying to make the pain stop // chasing comfort // protecting an identity.
Making the pain stop: cutting the book rapidly after some drawdown and not being able to recover in the subsequent reversion.
Chasing comfort: sizing up at the peak of your strategies, sizing down at the trough of your strategies (see making the pain stop).
The above are papercut sequences where you see teams just drawdown slowly until management loses patience and eventually cut them.
Protecting identity: trying to hold on to the image as a perpetual rainmaker, and doubling down on a dying strategy/book without understanding if the drawdown is a result of alpha decay and/or some systemic change.
This is the blow up sequence, where teams will hit enormous drawdowns from doubling down, sometimes outside pre-agreed risk limits.
I've always been surprised that the most controversial (IMO) opinion in my book is something I've never been called out on.
It is my belief that you cannot be a successful professional trader (quant or otherwise) without having a genetic pre-disposition for the management of stress. A good analogy would be that only certain people have the disposition to be an ordinance disposal expert.
You can learn the math, and the markets, and the incentives, and the models and the economics, and the patterns and everything else. But what no one can teach you and in my opinion you have to be born with, is the ability to sleep at night while your entire professional career dangles from a very fragile thread.
Few people actually possess this disposition. People in academia (as a rule) have the opposite disposition, which is why in spite of their intellect, exceptionally few academics have been successful in trading.
Me: When it rains, i want you to cover me with an umbrella.
Anthropic: There are two halves to this. And the half where the user does not want to get wet is the one that matters.
OpenAI: The user enjoys using umbrellas in the rain.
I can tell you that nobody from WQ would ever spell it as 2 words.
