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Math and Computer Wizards Now Billionaires Thanks to Quant Trading

42 pointsby 6502nerdfaceover 9 years ago

5 comments

ChuckFrankover 9 years ago
Please, let's stop with all the success bias. Let's add in some stories about those that lost their shirts due to Quant trading.
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arcanusover 9 years ago
I find it surprising they implied Overdeck is a superior mathematician to Tao. Winning the fields medal is a public award, based on his excellent papers and results.<p>Contrast this with some event in Tribeca the article does not even provide the name of.<p>Color me skeptical.
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Achsharover 9 years ago
It&#x27;s a dead link for me. The original from google search also seems to be dead. Someone seems to have pulled the article. And the google cache is also returning null.
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spacecowboy_lonover 9 years ago
Surely its those who employ &quot;math and computer wizards&quot; that are Billionaires.
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kskover 9 years ago
I never seem to understand why gambling with other peoples money is celebrated. Its not like they were a startup trying to create and market a product and struck it rich.<p>If you had to stretch it, there is a thin veneer of celebrating math in the article. But lets face it, if there was no money involved, forbes would most certainly not be covering mathematicians discussing equations.
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