Syed Bashir Hydari
@sheer_bash
Quant risk strategist • neuro-bayesian • applied math • systematic • @columbia // @ucla (summa)
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My friend just diagnosed a genetic condition that only 50 people in the world have with help from an LLM. It was missed on initial genetic screening because it’s that rare. The future of medicine is here.
"It is said that the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones and win against better rivals. Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor,inverse hormesis, absence of challenge, degrades the best of the best." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A young founder called me the other week with what she thought was a dilemma. Someone had offered to invest in her company. Good terms. No strings. She could say yes today and have the money in her account by next week. So what's the problem? The thing is, she wasn't sure she…
Remember that FTX was illegally using **customer money** to lend to his affiliated hedge fund Alameda Research, to make illiquid venture bets, and to make political donations. And that when the customers asked for their money back, he couldn’t return it. THAT is why the…
[SBF says:] I don't quite agree with every point—but, yeah, this is basically what happened. I'm not saying FTX's solvency or the Debtors' mismanagement are the reasons I'm innocent (although it's a piece of the story!). But the Debtors are still withholding funds—see, e.g.,…
![SBF_FTX's tweet card. [SBF says:] I’ve heard that some people in the replies are asking: Where did the money go? The ans...](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1988245428186353664/dn1QbjWQ?format=jpg&name=orig)
Everyone wants the shortcut, but the shortcut is doing it longer than everyone else.
10 years ago I made the decision to never correct anyone who’s wrong unless I’m paid to do that. Never been happier.
you should work on things you *really* want to work on; if you dont you end up killing your soul and your taste. learned this the hard way
If a problem seems intractable, it's almost always because your specification of it is vague or incomplete. The solution doesn't appear when you "think harder". It appears when you describe the problem in a sufficiently precise and explicit fashion -- until you see its true…
The things you need to do for your health every day…. Well you generally need to be told to do them every day. Until you’re doing them every day. Bright light mornings, dim dark nights set the stage for health. What you do in the first and last hour of the day is so key,
How you act at home is more important than how you are in public, at work, or in fancy social gatherings. How you act behind closed doors with those whose love is unconditional is by far the most revealing
A life lesson I wish I learned earlier: A farmer doesn’t dig up his seeds every day to make sure they’re growing. He plants, waters, and waits. You can’t rush what needs time to take root. Growth hides beneath the surface long before it’s visible above it. Remember that.
An extension of this is that if you are passionate, ambitious and care deeply about your work; it is a great torture to be forced to work with people that are less in it than you are.
It is a great joy to find people who are deeply passionate about what they do; even if they can be difficult people.
"It is as if the mission of modernity was to squeeze every drop of variability and randomness out of life— with the ironic result of making the world a lot more unpredictable, as if the goddesses of chance wanted to have the last word." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Just solve problems. Start with your own. Then solve other people’s. That’s how you grow. That’s how you earn. That’s how you become useful, creative, high-agency. It improves everything: mind, body, relationships, and income. Stop solving. Start drifting. And life starts to…
You spend $1B training a model A. Someone on your team leaves and launches their own model API B. You're suspicious. Was B was derived (e.g., fine-tuned) from A? But you only have blackbox access to B... With our paper, you can still tell with strong statistical guarantees…
🔎Did someone steal your language model? We can tell you, as long as you shuffled your training data🔀. All we need is some text from their model! Concretely, suppose Alice trains an open-weight model and Bob uses it to produce text. Can Alice prove Bob used her model?🚨
Shkreli is talking to like the most knowledgeable and successful quantum investor with a 500x exit and Martin is just running circles around him lmao
We often talk about big leaps in AI for mathematics, but I think the small steps are equally impressive. The future of mathematics is now. I was working on a particular task: finding a case-free proof of the representability of the local Néron function correction using a…
This is completely wrong. Here is an incomplete list of reasons that losing money is much, much easier than making money — - fees - funding spread - bid/ask spread - market impact - volatility drag - asymmetry of leverage - latency - adverse selection The only way you can…
The real issue is this: it’s just as impossible to design, or accidentally find a strategy that consistently loses money as one that consistently outperforms. (Ex-costs) Randomness, monkeys, and dartboards explain ‘alpha’. Adding assumptions to sound smart or justify being…
Citadel, Jane Street, Two Sigma should be even higher. This chart is missing a bit of gradience as far as quant firms at SSS+ are concerned. But overall pretty solid!
This tier list was circulating this week. Here are the real quant rankings imo. SSS Tier: RenTech, TGS, PDT SS Tier: D. E. Shaw, Jane Street, HRT, CitSec, XTX S Tier: Citadel GQS, Two Sigma, Jump, Optiver, SIG, IMC, DRW, Tower, Five Rings A+ Tier: Squarepoint, Voleon,…
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