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Andrei Schiopu

@andrew69895912

mechanical engineer, passionate about science, math and coding

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Study something old but not visibly useful (classics), something modern and useful (accounting, coding), never something new and not visibly useful.

Eric Weinstein (@ericrweinstein) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Moral: we’re now normalizing full on actual sociopathy and psychopathic behavior as if it were some normal schadenfreude or return of costs to bad actors as we careen mindlessly towards actual physical violence from both right and left. Because in this environment, it’s meh.

Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 (@pmarca) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Baumol's cost disease, also known as the Baumol effect, is the rise of wages in jobs that have experienced little or no increase in labor productivity, in response to rising salaries in other jobs that have experienced higher productivity growth."

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The UK reminds me of an old former partner at the (now defunct) investment bank Lehman Brothers who keeps repeating his stories of past glory, mostly in the (now almost defunct) Eurodollar market. Poland feels like a young graduate of a Data Science masters program hired by

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Below is a collection of (mostly) quant finance books taken in an undisclosed quant group. There is no single book that is not a linear combination of other books. Except of course for the works of a certain author.

Below is a collection of (mostly) quant finance books taken in an undisclosed quant group.
There is no single book that is not a linear combination of other books. 
Except of course for the works of a certain author.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I still don't know what lead to "success". But I know what leads to insuccess: a temperament of complaint, the mentality of permanent victimhood, and the collective and individual propensity for lamentation.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

To become a scholar, spend decades reading 30-40 h/week; to understand mathematics, 10K problems; to be an option trader, 250K trades; and to be metabolically healthy, 12-16 h/week of exercise. No Cliffnotes, no hack, no pill, no magic solution.

To become a scholar, spend decades reading 30-40 h/week; to understand mathematics, 10K problems; to be an option trader, 250K trades; and to be metabolically healthy, 12-16 h/week of exercise.

No Cliffnotes, no hack, no pill, no magic solution.