I think these roles only hire from top tier colleges and if you didn't get into one, too bad the ship has sailed. Can't argue on comp though. These jobs post very well.
nah it's not top tier college, it's just being insanely smart in the mathy way.
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Huh, in my circles the real trophy jobs are quant roles at top firms. And given the caliber of the people there - and the compensation - they're arguably not trophy roles. Tbh ppl going for the pm/vc path are seen mostly as tools.
"A database of retractions shows that only four in every 10,000 papers are retracted."
Every time a plane crashes it's international news. But just because you regularly hear about plane crashes doesn't mean flying is unsafe.
do me a favor and look up all the papers in thinking fast and slow that failed to replicate
The optimal amount of scientific misconduct is not zero.
so based. But I do have to say that when the president of one of your top institutions resigns over misconduct, the level of misconduct is probably a fair amount over optimal. And speaking with my friends in, eg, alzheimer's research, the fraud and inability to trust the veracity of unreplicated results does really slow down work in the field.
The peer review system is not designed to catch fraud, it's designed to catch scientific or experimental errors.
Giving up on science is such a vast overgeneralization. You could take your statement and replace "manipulated research", "scientific institutions" and "established scientific truth" with just about any negative article in any domain. You could just as easily make this statement about startups (Theranos, Juicero), or government, or religion, or suburbs, or cities...
> The peer review system is not designed to catch fraud, it's designed to catch scientific or experimental errors.
Yes.
> Giving up on science is such a vast overgeneralization. You could take your statement and replace "manipulated research", "scientific institutions" and "established scientific truth" with just about any negative article in any domain. You could just as easily make this statement about startups (Theranos, Juicero), or government, or religion, or suburbs, or cities...
Institutions go through similar cycles of breaking and systemic reform. Not surprised that you can see patterns in other domains.
On the whole, all these scandals in manipulated research have deeply shaken my trust in many of our scientific institutions. It's clear by now this isn't the case of a few bad apples - our scientific institutions are systemically broken in ways that promote spreading fraudulent results as established scientific truth.
btheshoe commented on Statistical Arbitrage – An Easy Walkthrough dm13450.github.io/2023/07... · Posted by u/xgdgsc
The unintuitive thing about the stock market is that you are not trying to predict a system unrelated to yourself. But you are trying to predict other people's behavior. People who are just like you.
So when you notice a pattern - say "Stock S trades lower on Tuesdays and higher on Fridays", what do you do?
Do you buy on Tuesday to exploit the pattern?
Or do you buy on Friday because you are not a unique snowflake and others will notice the same historical pattern and therefore reverse it in the future?
There is no way to decide. Because even if you see long-running patterns in the history of the stock market, those patterns might have reverted just at that moment when people like you noticed them.
This holds for all patterns. Even if they are as complex as the ones described in the article.
ya so notice the pattern before anyone else and extract money by filling the inefficiency. this isn't a profound insight, the nature of alpha is that it's temporary and limited. doesn't mean it doesn't exist and you can't take advantage of it - as long as you're better than everyone else (faster, smarter, cheat-ier). tbh it's just like entrepreneurship - starting a business will attract competitors. but you can just outcompete them.
I don’t feel safe uploading a cv to an untrusted site. It doesn’t explain what happens with the cv on first glance after it’s uploaded.
Good luck
? Personally I'm comfortable uploading my resume wherever - it's my resume, it exists to advertise my skills. I'd give it freely to anyone who asks, there's nothing on there I'd consider private almost by definition.