quants-n-traders

[grim sigil]

ironic

king of mid

❤️

jk idk u

i wish u a successful career

[dire finch]

homeless is more prestige

[dire finch]

there has been a string of harassment accounts by this one guy trying to break into quant (god bless him)

if that's not you then i sincerely apologize

he's from india or something and has no education but really wants to do quant

in his late 20s with no math beyond algebra 1

[haughty hinge]

Abd?

[dire finch]

troll or delirious they both act the same

[tropic patrol]

KT is goated

[dire finch]

he smells like shit

cuz the goat is never washed

KT balanced my checkbook

[tropic patrol]

KT married my daughter

[dire finch]

KT is my daughter

it's both

you can't reach the other wealthy people unless you go to the rich kid school

KT saved my dog from a burning building

[tropic patrol]

How many quant interns realistically are there per cycle

No way it’s over 100 right

bruh no way

JS can’t be big enough for 100 interns

QR QT and Swe total there’s no way it’s over 500 total

[haughty hinge]

There was some stat a while back, it’s 100 either just NY office or across all but probs NY

[tropic patrol]

Really wtf

Snowflake has under 100

and it’s way bigger

[haughty hinge]

if ur talking about just in general interns at all trading companies u can prob estimate 2-3k

[tropic patrol]

No way

HRT 60?

I didn’t realize they hired sm

[haughty hinge]

There’s like 200 firms that are able to take interns, maybe like 150 of them can take at most 2, then there’s like 30 that take sub 10 and 20 that take 20-100+

This is super super estimation tho

[tropic patrol]

that sounds reasonable

[haughty hinge]

Really?

Pretty regular no? Most are tqd peeps

Ah yeah, I’ve been off recruiting for a while, just came back recently

Ahah spot on date

Yep this is accurate, not many people to talk to about recruiting rn

Shows I’m semi ngmi for this server standards

This mf

Anything not known unlikely to have more than 20 interns

Yeah

Just noobs

Yeah was 8 2 years ago

It’s chill

At least ur a US citizen

That’s a perk nowadays

🙏

[tropic patrol]

Can u even apply to headlands lol

I don’t think there’s an app

[haughty hinge]

They don’t have internships

U just email ur resume

Only after u pass OA with 1 visible test case and 250 hidden ones

[tropic patrol]

Headhunter said that he gets 50k per hire

[tropic patrol]

Oh what the fuck

Gg

I’m so ass at those

[haughty hinge]

It’s a pretty moronic OA

[tropic patrol]

Have u done headlands OA before

Apparently they send OA after 2 phones

Which is stupid af

[haughty hinge]

Yeah in 2023

But that wasn’t after interviews, was at start like normal

[tropic patrol]

NG?

[haughty hinge]

Ye

They don’t have anything else

💀

At least they Dmed u

[tropic patrol]

Same headhunter as me lol

They r making runs recommending de Shaw and headlands specifically

Wonder why it’s those 2 firms lmao

LMAOOOOOO

why is it those 2 tho

[haughty hinge]

They probably have worst hh selection

Yeah

[tiny sleet]

so if i'm also interested in computer vision, it's probably a good idea to just focus on getting internships for that right now while learning concepts in math needed for quant right

[dire finch]

cough us

Wow Would You Look At That

[tropic patrol]

CV internships hard to come by

Or maybe I’m ngmi

Couldn’t get a single one

[dire finch]

We Have The Exact Same Fucking Assignments haha

[tiny sleet]

what were your qualfications when you applied

not sure how far this will take me, but this summer i'll be working on an ocr scanner

by the way does project euler help with the math in quant interviews

[dire finch]

insane

[tiny sleet]

is that a horrible project idea

[dire finch]

eh seems a little reinvent-the-wheel-y

[tiny sleet]

i see

[dire finch]

im sure some tesla hh will get horny over it though

[tiny sleet]

hh?

[dire finch]

headhunter (recruiter)

[tiny sleet]

are most projects "reinvent-the-wheel-y" though

most resume projects i mean

[haughty hinge]

Yea

[tiny sleet]

oh well i guess that's the whole point of trying to find something unique then

[haughty hinge]

There are some that stand out tho even if u use a “template” project

[tiny sleet]

i have been thinking about some drone project ideas but it's probably not something i can work on yet this summer

[low vault]

arent u

[tropic patrol]

I had 2 good papers

[tiny sleet]

damn

[low vault]

i think just

[haughty hinge]

No

[dire finch]

No

[low vault]

oh

[haughty hinge]

Hrt cit don’t have time for discord

[tiny sleet]

i may have 1 paper by the end of this summer, we'll see how it goes

[haughty hinge]

With their 167 hour per week

[tiny sleet]

and then i'll have to work on a good project

aside from that, not sure what else i can really do

[tropic patrol]

Lmao why not

[tiny sleet]

more research i guess

[haughty hinge]

Mf talking to himself

[tiny sleet]

lol

[tropic patrol]

Bro it’s doomed

Ur not making it

Give up

[haughty hinge]

Be nice!

[tiny sleet]

nah i was talking to do dude who mentioned cv internships

[tropic patrol]

Once powell fired

It’s over

[dire finch]

ORZ CHORD IM ORZING

ours has character it's princeton flavored

[tropic patrol]

Bro my school just full took MIT and UCB

like full classes

[dire finch]

no the slides are ours

[tropic patrol]

Our intro ai class is just Berkeleys class

[dire finch]

is it strategic to do quant full time in this economy

[tiny sleet]

what companies did you apply to

for cv internships

[dire finch]

i thought i'd just do big tech but trump might actually burn shit down

[timber swift]

probably

[tropic patrol]

Nvidia Tesla Waymo

Fuck u

I got dl

not vision

[dire finch]

hmmm

alright that settles it

omw! my way to imc

[tiny sleet]

how far did you go for cv process

[tropic patrol]

I didn’t get any cv processes

[timber swift]

3 years at imc then switch to meta

[tiny sleet]

oh that's cool

[tropic patrol]

I only got dl

[timber swift]

😹

[tiny sleet]

was this for the summer after your freshman year?

[dire finch]

does imc support ladder climbing like meta / top unicorn does

i kinda just wanna quit w into management

[tropic patrol]

Nvidia was for this sum

[timber swift]

idts

[dire finch]

dam... doomed

[tiny sleet]

what year are you

[tropic patrol]

3

Fuck u fuck u

[dire finch]

ya but i thought imc would be a little quirkier about that

snoffle

[tropic patrol]

😭

[low vault]

trading is good in basically any economy

if the economy sucks usually there's more volatility/uncertainty which will drive up trading firms' profits

[timber swift]

what's quirky about imc is that they are willing to let 1/2 of their new grads go after a year

[tiny sleet]

how much would a phd compared to masters increase your chances for qr

(whichever role involves training models)

[dire finch]

what if there's no food to eat (ex. '08-'20 zero interest rate)

[low vault]

oh hmm

[dire finch]

cuz uh

[low vault]

is it low volatility as well?

[dire finch]

trump aboutta make powell do unwise things

[low vault]

JS printed money during the financial crisis

[dire finch]

that period was basically bull dick market slow grind up forever

[tropic patrol]

powell not folding

[low vault]

like im not saying it's a good state for the country to be in

[tropic patrol]

trump just lost case to Supreme Court 40 mins ago

[low vault]

I think stop firms like js etc. still did pretty well

[tropic patrol]

Alien act but still

[low vault]

also its not like you can't transition into other stuff

[haughty hinge]

Ur degree level won’t get u a job. Wtv job description is that’s usually enough, a lot of places take ugs

[dire finch]

oh thank fuck sc still has a spine

[tropic patrol]

he’s not allowed to deport any alien using alien act now

[low vault]

deepseek started out as a quant side project

[dire finch]

thank you clarence thomas thank you sam alito

[low vault]

if you can code well you can code well

[dire finch]

you maggot fucks

[tropic patrol]

also quant to ai pipeline now exists

openais shit

[dire finch]

i can't though orz

[low vault]

yeah i heard

[tropic patrol]

who knows what that looks like later

[low vault]

too bad im not in nyc or sf

[low vault]

a lil salty about that ngl

[tropic patrol]

TikTok got the story before NYT

[dire finch]

who knew that deporting hoes randomly with no cause was fucking stupid

[tropic patrol]

TikTok actually amazing as a search engine

[low vault]

have you seen the white house twitter and truth social pages

[tropic patrol]

I prefer it to Google now

[low vault]

they're like

trying to paint the dad as some kinda gang leader guy

[tropic patrol]

Yeah

Insane work

[dire finch]

yeah the guy with the tats?

[low vault]

and the way they present it is so cringe i can't believe it's official comms

[dire finch]

super embarrassing

[low vault]

yeah tats dude

[tropic patrol]

Bc they have 0 iq rocks spearheading this

Their target audience is the uneducated

[dire finch]

thank you bush? no child left behind bullshit

isnt it funny that the kids born after no child left behind are now substantially more red (18-22 crowd)

[low vault]

when was no child left behind

[dire finch]

like 01?

[low vault]

wait

wasnt reagan like the 70s

or 80s

or am i just regarded

[tropic patrol]

Both

Im sure the swes just go do react front end tho

lol

[dire finch]

you're right it was bush 1

[low vault]

honestly im a swebob

proper quant sounds too stressful

[dire finch]

i hate names

[tropic patrol]

making dashboards has to be the equivalent to the slaves who made the pyramids

crazy comparison ik but it’s real

[dire finch]

skynet demands mobile responsive layouts

it's part of the deal

[low vault]

i thought it would be more like

cruddy

i mean if you do like low latency stuff

cant you go into like cuda optinization or whatever

I think having experience with OS internals, etc. is generally good

[tropic patrol]

ig

[tiny sleet]

how good would a paper that covers up a major flaw of an existing adversarial attack be

[dire finch]

bro asking us to grade his paper on a scale from 0 to 100 for real

[tropic patrol]

bro thinks we are an oracle

https://tenor.com/view/among-us-among-us-animated-just-some-plastic-gif-18581623

[ruby ravine]

link paper

[tiny sleet]

i meant just the idea

haven't started on it yet

the professor and phd student are mostly leaving it open for us to decide where things go with research, it's centered around adversarial attacks in computer vision though

[terse barn]

lmao mine looks the exact same too

[ruby ravine]

I think adversarial attack papers are interesting! I’m not sure if they help with quant recruiting though beyond just getting into a conference

[tiny sleet]

oh sorry i should have specified when i asked, it was for computer vision internships

cause people were saying i should first focus on other internships before quant internships

and computer vision is another interest of mine and so i was asking since it seems like there are some people here who have experience with that too

[ruby ravine]

I think also it’s like extremely hard to predict where a paper goes from just the idea, like some really impactful papers come from stating the obvious and there’s a ton of big brain ones that go nowhere

[tiny sleet]

oh i see

so then i should just choose a topic i find useful and interesting and go along with it

was asking about research, not projects

[ruby ravine]

Yeah precisely this, research is kind of a labor of love and you don’t paid anything

[ruby ravine]

Dude if you like CV fuck quant

Quant is kind of a bunch of really smart people playing games on the sidelines

I went to high school with him and was his manager for a summer lmao

He is an IRL friend

Congrats that’s awesome!!

Damn bro deleted the message and makes me look brain dead

[tiny sleet]

will i not be able to study both?

[ruby ravine]

Hmm, I think like there’s lots of paths into quant, and not many paths out, it’s kind of a dead end job in that a lot of people don’t end up leaving

So in some sense quant is there forever for you — if you’re really good at CV, quant will probably take you with the idea that you can just re-skill into more general ML; if you’re just really good at probability puzzles though OpenAI probably won’t take you

[ruby ravine]

yeah but i haven’t talked to him for a few years — i think I shilled him luna right before the collapse and he justifiably things im brain dead

[lethal apex]

as long as you mention your clash royale achievements you have a chance

@molten crow wait you still play?

[zenith panther]

hello

@primal shell how can i get a FULLTIME job as a QUANT

any advice??

lets ask orz bobbers

@low vault

[lethal apex]

ngl that’s hella fucking impressive, idk how anyone deals w the clash changes over the years. Like the ugly UI updates and the rebalances. You a soph?

[low vault]

What Skorgeo said

Mans cracked fs

[zenith panther]

orzz

[zenith panther]

ORZ

advice: ve orz like u

🪞

[storm igloo]

for quant dev, is it important to know networking concepts for interview if you havnt taken a class yet?

[brisk ingot]

usually just explaining tcp vs udp

and maybe a little bit more complexity than that but nothing crazy

(for most firms that ask)

[storm igloo]

ill self teach myslef that 🫡

and I assume that most firms ask like graph, DP Hard level stuff?

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-spongebob-meme-youtube-poop-spongebob-ytp-spongebob-explosion-gif-6733228149138377479

[strange fiber]

whats larping?

[tranquil wagon]

Ok buddy

Not cool!

[stone drum]

tbh i think most of the big firms usually arent that hard LC wise its just high bar for overall performance

[lethal apex]

when u wanna work at a hedge fund but their website is from 2009 and asks you for your social security number (they definitely send this over plaintext)

[zenith panther]

nah

orzz

orz orz orz orz

i wish i was orz like u

[tiny sleet]

wth is an orz

[pale breach]

anyone interviewed for quant risk for two sigma recently?

[lethal apex]

glad cause this would be overkill

feel like people don't understand how detailed TCP is

expecting a sophomore to know anything beyond SYN-SYNACK-ACK is kinda cruel 😂

[lethal apex]

radish

[lime zealot]

they only ask one question my guy 💀

[low vault]

radish

[elder peak]

if u can't describe differences between tcp tahoe vs reno vs cubic you're cooked

[grim sigil]

if u can’t prove that the set of invertible matrices is open you’re cooked 🤓👆

[dire finch]

under what metric buster

🤓👆

[zenith panther]

idk the diff 💀💀💀

[dire finch]

if you vectorize the matrix and use standard vector norm it's kind of obvious to see that the (not)invertibility condition is a zero measure closed manifold

oopth! all topology

[lethal apex]

🫵😂 topology

Another fake math invented to keep academic paychecks flowing

[dire finch]

this is where i subtly flex my 150 bench and math minor

💪 😤

[lethal apex]

How’s the your college gym

[dire finch]

it recently got a big expansion

lowkey nice as fuck

got that eco friendly wood veneer going

[grim sigil]

that’s nice, we love a good gym

[dire finch]

@grim sigil 😭

need to know if polynomial functions are continuous

[lethal apex]

Ts like a 2/10 funny but you be skull reacting some of my unfunny messages too

so I have to reciprocate

[grim sigil]

Frobenius norm or however tf u spell it

u got it right gang

[dire finch]

oh word

[snow atlas]

anybody take the SIG tech OA?

[dire finch]

yeah shit easy

remember to turn brain on

[snow atlas]

got it i'll try and remember to do that

i heard it's 4 questions in 70 minutes, 1 easy 2 med 1 hard?

[tropic patrol]

i miss us

how are you

[dire finch]

kita ikuyo enjoyer or2

wtf

i dont get the nijika glaze

idk shes very plain jane

ya

tbf emotional fountain gf is prob more complimentary for neets

but i need deredere duncecap gf

to be fair

example: kita

LOL

goofy

https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Weedy

holy or2 this character

hypergryph kitchen is on fire

v good game but requires some brain

ya its quite deep cuz tower defense

lo true

u cant autoplay arknights, looping a level just uses ur best run

-> automatic orz

ya its just the most monetizable

mihoyo rolling in gooner fuel money

200*

if ur name is leage of lejegn its like 500 or something

orz... economics

lowk i think im too old to do anime

i get unc checked too often

"bro wiki is that anime on ur phone wallpaper"

and im like... yeah shucks im single

im junior

[low vault]

https://dmoj.ca/problem/ccc23s1

congrat :0

glllllllllllllllllllllllllll 🙏

[lethal apex]

haha yea that’s just greedy

Oh that problem? Yea just dp + binary search aha

aha oh problem D, the one that took you an hour to solve? Yea that’s just a segment tree + dfs

[zenith panther]

i wish i was doing CF

born to CF, forced to do idek

[lime zealot]

mfw i can't solve lc mediums regularly

[plush acorn]

channel quants: anime girls

is this why im not top yet

RIP time to put on programmer socks

[dense meadow]

Are there any good quant internship programs that a first year can do?

[dire finch]

doomed up the crudorz

[dense meadow]

I'll try my best ig

I'll try to do as well as I can on the Putnam contest

Oh nice

No LMFAO I'm 9 on AIME level

There's a chance I'm making physics national camp

But I'm not sure

[dense meadow]

I did the test for it a few weeks ago and felt good about it , came pretty close to making it last year

[dense meadow]

If I do then I'm set right?

Anything at those companies they pay crazy high for all roles

[late root]

Anyone done de shaw prop trading process before

[dense meadow]

I'm interested in all of them lol just debating which one to dedicate time to

Trading seems the most fun tbh

Same bro

As of now I'm just senioritising my way through hs

Real

Went out to eat with some friends in the weekend

Is it even possible to get quant research role in undergrad

Nice

I'll probably take as many combinatorics and optimization courses as I can ngl

Well it's fun to talk here

If I had a quant offer I'd be signing a lease on a Porsche

And terrorizing the 401 in it xD /j

Hence the /j

I'm on FB marketplace RN tryna find a car under $5k LMAO

Fancy cars are for when I get a full time after grad

Until then I will be driving a 2010 Mazda with 150k miles on it or something

[grim sigil]

not even tbh

[neon mirage]

It’s more for when you have money to burn

[dire finch]

you mean a toyota corolla 2006 with 400k miles

fancy car is only flexing to muppets

[dense meadow]

I'm an adrenaline junkie

I want to do track days

[dense meadow]

Real

Family's previous car lasted 400k

But the transmission went out

Had 7 neutrals

[dire finch]

ya transmission usually dies first

stupid ass belt

[dense meadow]

It went from 4 wheel drive to spare wheel drive, identified as a trailer

[dire finch]

old toyota engines are good forever just swap the auxillary parts regularly

[dense meadow]

It became Trans mission

[dire finch]

need me a modded shitter corolla

[dense meadow]

1UZ FTW I miss that car

[dire finch]

i appreciate the effort in this one

[dense meadow]

Million mile engine

[dense meadow]

The frame though

They get rusted out very easily

In Canada

With all the road salt and stuff

[dense meadow]

I'll probably buy a used 400z or Supra in 2030 lol

Welp this just became #cars

[lethal apex]

the way you name random cars is so tuff

[dense meadow]

Real

I ngl just want a well handling car with >= 200whp per metric ton

I'm a "spirited" driver

I like flooring it from a light

Used Acura TLX with the 3.5 V6 is probably the strat

Long wheelbase will be nice and stable for high speed lane changing

[limpid pulsar]

Lowk a fun car is the TSX

Its the accord that the eu market got

TLX too heavy and ugly tbh

[dense meadow]

Tlx is under 3700 lb

But has awd

[lethal apex]

King larper getting hella nervous

zaox and rift spend all day reading this chat, looking for poor students to correct

[dense meadow]

It's not by north american standards, and apparently it's a lot better on the highway than the accord due to superior aero

[limpid pulsar]

north american cars in general are too heavy tbh besides like corvettes

[dense meadow]

Let's go to DMs lol

[lethal apex]

Plane wing pfp, c++ programmer, spent 3 hours talking about cars

The autistic person can be any one of us

[dense meadow]

Hell yeah

Currently CADing up a modification to add steering dampeners to an electric skateboard

[lethal apex]

you skate?

[dense meadow]

Going to when I have the money to build this thing

I used to ride unpowered skateboards since I was 6 lol

Exhibit D : I use vim btw

And have y=arctan(x) posture

[urban solstice]

is morgan stanley considered quant

[dire arrow]

stupid ass question ngl

they should delete this channel

[dense meadow]

I got the "battery health: service recommended" ahh setup

vim is a lot lighter than vs code

lmfaoo

I was just doing a leetcode problem lmao

cuz my brother was stuck on one

I had the idea though

so I just coded it

to show him

[lethal apex]

why am I not invited to parties ahh personality

o nah

[mellow aurora]

He's larping about his gf btw

His gf is not real

Not if I get to myself first

[lethal apex]

why do they even encourage using namespace std

did the OG textbooks suggest this?

I can only speak for C but kernighan and ritchie's textbook is still the gold standard 50 years later, curious how that applies to C++

encourage is the wrong word, but I've seen multiple tutorials make use of it

[dense meadow]

why press many keys when few keys do trick

but yeah I might have embarassed myself whoops

agreed tbh

Yes lmaooo

[dense meadow]

My brother applied

I was doing the question that he got lol

It's staingate

It's when the acidity of sweat from fingerprints on the keyboard corrodes the anti glare coating over time

Only solution is to put up with it or to scrape the layer off

It's a 2017 mbp

Maybe

[tranquil wagon]

Also c style arrays!

[tranquil wagon]

Also this code isn’t portable because you’re using variable length arrays which aren’t standard and aren’t supported on msvc

[tropic patrol]

i saw u in the internship pics

denise told me ab u

[dense meadow]

I know, it's shit code LMAO

The vla was temporary

It was supposed to be a function that takes arrays as input

I hard coded sample test case data in it

Cuz I didn't wanna type it in every time I fixed an error

[tranquil wagon]

But why no constexpr :(

[dense meadow]

Bro I was sleep deprived and my main "language" is Matlab ffs

I'll take cs246 and all that stuff and get back to you

[tranquil wagon]

With practice you too will be able to write code that compiles on the major three compilers

[dense meadow]

I have done that for some CV pipelines a while ago pre GPT

I've got a mac and another laptop that's windows and Linux dual boot

[dire finch]

people gawking on vim cock for an ounce of moral supremacy

orz...

[dense meadow]

I have good reason to use it

Service recommended battery condition

VScode uses more resources

[dire finch]

screen + linux driver inefficiencies on mac hardware is most of the power consumption budget brother

or2 the grid

[dense meadow]

I use mac OS on that lol

Not Linux

[dire finch]

(i didnt't zoom in oops)

[dense meadow]

Wasn't long enough for that place

[dire finch]

point still stands though the overhead of rendering some 2d blocks is insubstantial

just turn off the nonessential background preprocessors in vscode

[tropic patrol]

damn

was hc tough for that tema

[tropic patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/jessicasprings0-mulsup-dog-mask-gif-25564159

how u felt typing this

ur not that guy pal

[sacred beacon]

does anyone know about de shaw prop trading intern process

[low vault]

on god how do you read with that colour pallate

i would burn my eyeballs out

[dense meadow]

well I set it to "hackerman" green as a joke

for the picture

this is my actual color scheme

and some code I wrote in grade 10 in the back of some class when bored so y'all can cringe even more xD

[dire finch]

bro really wants to flex the dark saber and his pixycam code

[grim sigil]

maybe i sound stupid by asking this

[dense meadow]

bro I was just saying that i normally use a sane color scheme

but wanted to continue trolling

[grim sigil]

but why is vim transparent

[dense meadow]

the terminal is transparent

[dire finch]

^ terminal setting

[grim sigil]

i see

ngl i didnt know u could do that

looks cool

[dense meadow]

this is code that allows me to point the laptop webcam at a large screen like a TV and track my hand to let me draw on it

[dire finch]

(pixycam code orz)

[dense meadow]

it's opencv

[dire finch]

(supports opencv btw)

i'm joshing significantly

[dense meadow]

yes

we all are here

[dire finch]

can't ever be too sure as soon as the first explanation gets whipped out

bro ruined my naive bayesian model

[dense meadow]

tism humor is hard to model

[dire finch]

ya need to learn how to backprop myself off a bridge first

[dense meadow]

you can do forward propagation off a bridge too

[tropic patrol]

good

[dense meadow]

as long as you spread your legs while falling the center of mass will be in front of the center of pressure so any direction you fall it will always be headfirst if its a high enough bridge

[dense meadow]

also my laptops have names xD
this one is called Darksaber, the mac is lightsaber lmao

funny i know

my server is called deathstar

[dire finch]

ah the star wars flavored tism

whenever i play pokemon i pick a new theme for my party

[dense meadow]

I named my family's cars after three body problem things

[dire finch]

don't think ive done star wars yet

[dense meadow]

droplet and photoid

[dire finch]

but i've done gems, organic molecules, presidents, flowers, mountains, etc

[dense meadow]

cool

[dense meadow]

when I buy or build an electric skateboard it will be named sophon

[dense meadow]

I have every flavour

packin a four course indian meal of that shit

[dire finch]

i dont get the hyperobsessive tism hype

just do everything there's no mental load

[lethal apex]

Thought I was the only one still using joshing ngl

[dire finch]

smash player legacy

[low vault]

better but still kinda scuffed ngl

maybe my eyesight is too dogshit

but i cant do background terminals long-term

anyways preference is totally up to ou im hjust poking fu nlol

[lethal apex]

Same, weird tbh

[fresh swallow]

Green is the best color for editor

I use some jungle theme on vscode it's great

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=moondevaa.DarkGreenJungle

[dire finch]

ya it is dumb ngl

you will probably at least get OA

optiver sends OA to everyone and their mom

those are rng

one of my friends got js/cit/hrt final (carpetbombed all of them oops) but didnt get a single big tech interview

just luck

ya keep worrying bub lol

/s

ur worrying does not affect the outcome

therefore game theory optimal to turn off brain

yes i advocate for 95% of this server to lobotomize their prefrontals so they stop worrying

/hj

worry is resource best spent on controllable outcome

like a test or competition or something

-> dont bother worrying until you land oa/interview

until then just send apps like monkey

if you're good enough surely you can pass cold screen

you'll be applying for junior internship anyway no reason to not shotgun

not like you have a senior thesis or sm to worry about

[dense meadow]

How likely can someone get the job if they ace the OA?

[dire finch]

rng

500k tc or generational disappointment

orz..

[dense meadow]

Fr bro people here are cracked as fuck

Then there's me, unemployed and financially insolvent

Are they all just standard LC interviews? Or math contest like problems

[dire finch]

depends

usually some mix of med-hard lc, domain knowledge, and vibe check

[dense meadow]

Oh

Where can I find study material / practice questions for domain knowledge?

[dire finch]

idk just know c++/python better

[dense meadow]

Lol

I wasted 4 years of high school playing games all day and barely studying for anything I have to lock tf in for a chance to redeem myself

[dire finch]

ok

poverty

[dense meadow]

Real

[dire finch]

i'm not in quant this szn

[timber swift]

poverty speedrun

[dire finch]

but i will try ng recruiting so @lunar thicket can kiss me

ya

orz

[dense meadow]

Damnn

[dire finch]

i had conflict that day

[dense meadow]

@low vault does this happen in our school? I've seen some of them like Jane Street at hackathons but idk if something like this happens

[dire finch]

bro hit the name drop orz

[dense meadow]

Nvm I can leave it in

Real

I got an offer from the bottom of Lake Ontario... It's a full time

[dire finch]

orz watergoon

wish i went there

[dense meadow]

Come over xD

Visit us

[dire finch]

brisk 14 day walk no biggie

[dense meadow]

5 hour 30 min drive

[dense meadow]

Isn't 162h less than a week

[dire finch]

ur not walking straight

i used 12 hr per day walking

[dense meadow]

chug some monster and do it like a hackathon

[dire finch]

ya hack ur calves off after walking 400 miles

[dense meadow]

LMAO

Max I've walked in a day is like 40k steps around NYC while visiting

My legs were dead after that

[dire finch]

walking around nyc made me realize that i have bad knees

it's over

[low vault]

HURRRRFG

dontthink so

but like :Shrug: for optiver

i talked to another guy who reneged optiver ft for p72 ro

[low vault]

i think if you are okay with burning your eyeballs it's not that bad

i used to be okay with it too

i think maybe my eyes just got tired over time

i used to troll the other interns during the summer with the vscode red theme

lowkey maybe im just dooming bc i forgot to pull out of their process and i think im blacklistded now lololoooolololololololol

i think the rate is higher for return interns than for direct, which is probably why he reneged

pulling out

pulling in

[lethal apex]

I use max windows 11 nightlight + vscode retro light theme

i wish I was joking

[tranquil wagon]

U need to stop saying this because if ur ngmi then im actually a gutter rat

[low vault]

on god

[dense meadow]

Bro we all ngmis in this economy

Soon enough we're all gonna be replaced by AI as well

[dire finch]

@lunar thicket would u

one (1) smooch for quant offer

[lethal apex]

one (1)

[heavy palm]

How you in optver process @rose holly . I thought you said you ngmi

[celest anvil]

You can pm me

[strange fiber]

what's ft referring to?

like full time?

[tranquil wagon]

What 💀

How did u get his ip lmao

@lunar thicket have you considered a career in the cia

Oh you mean KT the god of quant?

That guy is cracked af

[broken thorn]

maybe im too pleb to understand but isnt deepmind way cooler and at that point money doesnt matter

like what do u even do with the seventh figure in ur salary

[lost jolt]

Heard hrt is expanding its dev team in sgp. Is there some truth to it or just a rumour

[dire finch]

some people have fucked marginal utility functions for money

like my pookie @lunar thicket

[broken thorn]

if its not concave down hes beyond saving

[dire finch]

shits superexponential 🥵

[broken thorn]

surely bragging rights at dinner parties matter more than the 4th 500k in ur salary

[dire finch]

my measure of utility is forcing people to listen to my music and play my games

that is real impact

unfortunately id be broke and high under a bridge if i went into music / game dev so here i am

[broken thorn]

black mirror episode where its just you and a bunch of streamers with 10 views

[dire finch]

orz

[dire finch]

nooo ken griftiths please

[dense meadow]

how can u afford to get high with game dev money

can't even get high on caffeine with that ffs

is this a good book

[dire finch]

oh hull is a good book

but it's a little excessive for even trading lol

[dense meadow]

oh

[low vault]

honestly if i got deepmind

id be going deep

:winky wink;

[tiny sleet]

shit lowkey i gotta look into this too

[dense meadow]

I have slept 14 hours today as of now lol

just woke up from a nap

but yes, its a good book

[tiny sleet]

14 hours is crazy

if i hit 9 hours i'm being dragged out of bed

[dense meadow]

well I was dragged out of bed then my parents went shopping

[tiny sleet]

tf

same day as my parents went to costco

crazy

[dense meadow]

ah yes its a saturday

normal day to go to costco

[tiny sleet]

true

[dense meadow]

the food bank for the middle class

[tiny sleet]

we have sams club closer to us so that's where they usually go

but every 1-2 months it's a trip to costco

[dire finch]

like vector calc? lol

[tiny sleet]

it says in the book that stochastic calc isn't assumed to be known

[tropic patrol]

Anyone do Five Rings winter Trading process?

[lethal apex]

swear when people start getting offers it impairs all critical thinking

it be the smartest person on earth debating Rentech QR vs. Salesforce Sales Associate Intern

[tropic patrol]

SYBAU

Idk

[dense meadow]

nah any high school student can understand this book

just requires calculus knowledge

[tiny sleet]

you thinking of becoming a quant?

[dense meadow]

well im thinking of trying to become a quant

[tiny sleet]

yeah that's what i mean

[dense meadow]

whether I become one or not is a different question

[dense meadow]

What's the best use 🤔

[tiny sleet]

he's gonna say the best use of your time is to spend your final year touching grass

https://tenor.com/view/clone-clones-buzz-lightyear-toy-story-gif-21609842

[dense meadow]

lmaoo

nah bro I've partied hard and played a lot of games in the past few years

time to lock in now

money aint gonna make itself

[tiny sleet]

same

the played a lot of games part

not the partied hard part

[dense meadow]

how do I do the first step

[tiny sleet]

i've tried and failed to find parties fun lol

shit just doesn't click with me

[dense meadow]

wouldn't it help me understand what goes on there?

[tiny sleet]

probably a good thing

[dense meadow]

ngl same unless lots of my friends are there

like the work ppl actually do at quant companies?

[tiny sleet]

my idea of a fun time is a joint training session with friends

[dense meadow]

realll

[tiny sleet]

now that's absolutely fun

[dense meadow]

bro team math contests go hard

ARML was so much fun

[tiny sleet]

oh i gotta experience that

gonna see if my uni has a competitive math club or something

they have competitive programming which i'm gonna tryout for

i just found out putnam is proof-based

crazy

gonna have to lock in on proofs i guess

[dense meadow]

lmao what

well im done with hs

ive seen quant sponsors at every math contest I went to

[tiny sleet]

damn

[dense meadow]

anyway dyt if I lock the actual fuck in rn I can manage a good putnam score? given im fairly avg for a high school comp math guy

[tiny sleet]

bro's making me feel like i've spent my time in high school going jackshit

[fallen grotto]

is this specifically for qt

[tiny sleet]

well actually that's kind of accurate

i did spend my time in high school doing jackshit

[dense meadow]

look at this guy we've both done jack shit https://discord.com/channels/698366411864670250/1365725036627099819

[tiny sleet]

all cause of time wasted on dumbass deca and some stupid non profit lol

[dense meadow]

oh

but then DE Shaw tells the 10 th graders at the ARML that they should look into quant finance?

[tiny sleet]

what the fuck

man fuck my life

nah things change now

[dense meadow]

real

[dense meadow]

hell yeah

we lock in for putnam

[tiny sleet]

fuck yeah

wait is this inaccurate

[dense meadow]

@primal shell any advice for it? transitioning from a mid tier hs comp math guy

[tiny sleet]

or is this reaction cause this is widely known information

to be honest i didn't know what putnam is until a few days ago

[dense meadow]

it is widely known information

ive tried some problems before I could solve an A1 after some help and time
didn't even understand the rest

[tiny sleet]

my school is full of so many business majors and so most of the shit i hear about is business stuff

fuck my school

[fallen grotto]

r u qt as well or qswe

[tiny sleet]

math major isn't necessary though right

i'm planning on just doing math minor

and cs major

[dense meadow]

waterloo cs major is basically a math major I think

[fallen grotto]

have u ever debated going into qt

[dense meadow]

cuz cs is in math faculty

[tiny sleet]

crazy

[dense meadow]

so I can double major

[tiny sleet]

bro's gonna have qr internship through coop program

i'm still gonna be taking plenty of math classes though

i only decided to take math minor when i realized how many math classes i planned to take

thought i might as well just declare for the minor

[fallen grotto]

why did u decide not to go for qt

[dense meadow]

money probably

[tiny sleet]

starting off uni taking probability theory first sem, so that should set me up real nicely

[dense meadow]

nicee

[tiny sleet]

and then some quant math class second sem of first year

[dense meadow]

is waterloo good for quant or not?
ik its good for swe

[tiny sleet]

i'm at a decent school, i don't think it's nearly good enough for quant internship first year though

i'm assuming top 10 in the us is not good enough

for internship first year i mean

[hazy hawk]

Step 2 too hard 😔

[tiny sleet]

i see

[dense meadow]

welp I have until december to lock the fuck in for putnam

[tiny sleet]

that's fine i could just try for computer vision first year, and then quant later

[dense meadow]

dyt I should start training with putnam contest problems right away or build up with USAMO problems?

[tiny sleet]

i'm gonna be grinding both computer vision and quant cause i can't decide between the two lol

i might be fucking myself up

[dense meadow]

I don't have much oly problem experience, never qualified for CMO or USAMO

[tiny sleet]

yeah honestly that's why i'm doing both

[fallen grotto]

im soph rn debating whether i should try for qt intern 2026
i like math but idk if im built for being a qt
i like how swe is sometimes brainless/relaxing its like just building legos or something

[dense meadow]

im like intermediate at cv im guessing

ive done an internship in it

[tiny sleet]

damn wtf

holy cracked

what did you do in that internship

[dense meadow]

built eye tracking system

[tiny sleet]

nice

[dense meadow]

will consider this

how dyk if ur gonna be an above avg qt

[tiny sleet]

so like eye recognition?

or tracking eye movement

[fallen grotto]

is lower half qt compensation around the same as swe

[dense meadow]

movement tracking

[tiny sleet]

nice

[fallen grotto]

ah ok

[dense meadow]

@primal shell

[tiny sleet]

i'm trying to find out what i can do research on but i have no idea, and the professor and phd student are just leaving it up to us lol

i'm so cooked

[dense meadow]

80% of people say they are above average drivers

so ig

[fallen grotto]

i feel like if i do a qt intern and im not successful/don't like it it will prob be pretty easy to come back to swe

[dense meadow]

will it?

[fallen grotto]

im a soph, and have a decent change of doing 1 yr masters

so i have time

and i already have meta on res

[dense meadow]

oh nice

cracked

[hazy hawk]

How is ng fpga recruiting 😂

[dense meadow]

bro howd u get meta as a freshman/soph @fallen grotto

need advice pls

[fallen grotto]

idk lol resume screen rng

[dense meadow]

what school

[fallen grotto]

ut

[dense meadow]

toronto or texas

[fallen grotto]

texas

[dense meadow]

orz

[hazy hawk]

Rip

[fallen grotto]

the problem is that applying for qt will make it so that i can't apply for qswe at a lot of places

[fallen grotto]

r u a sophomore too

[dense meadow]

no im a senior

(in high school)

[fallen grotto]

oh damn wtf ur chillin

where u going to college

[fallen grotto]

valid

[dense meadow]

yo putnam 2023 a1 was light af

(im probably not gonna solve or even understand anything beyond that)

wait what kind of rank on putnam is good for quant

[rugged rampart]

Fellow

[tiny sleet]

is that you lol

[dense meadow]

no lmaoo

[tiny sleet]

they done put bro on his villain arc

[dense meadow]

closest anyone here is getting to a picture of me is the ghibli version in my github pfp

[hardy marsh]

how does one prep for a quant strategist role?

[dense meadow]

welp thats a bit high of a bar for someone with a single digit AIME score 😭

[rugged rampart]

😭 my untrained 1.5b llm does better than you

[dense meadow]

welp im giving up on that then

[tiny sleet]

is that where they only look at your resume if you're at a school with a certain ranking

[dense meadow]

lmao yeah im ngmi

[lethal apex]

O hey, been awhile. What have u been up to

[rugged rampart]

too much research... submitting a lot to nips

[lethal apex]

o we were just talking to nips, u gonna be at the parties?

[rugged rampart]

What

Work with a quant professor

[dire finch]

that was one of the easiest a1

[compact yacht]

what is quantum finance

quantum computing
?

[lethal apex]

cousin to quantum ai finance

[quasi orbit]

tesla is too stressful for me…I just want to go chill at Google now

[stiff dagger]

thats a whole day of translating work

not worth

bhenchod

[strong lark]

aswgedhfgthkjk

[waxen crown]

wtf am i reading

[tiny sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/iqzeusqi-gif-2881579087136669031

i might be able to

but here's the thing

if you tell me who zaox is, then i may help you get in if i can

what the fuck does that even mean

did you know that dude named kt

this is most definitely that dude

lol

bro why are you trying to dm me 💀

bro i'm not even an adult

i can't help you 💀

7

bro i'm joking

i'm 17

you can ask the other people here

anyone who i've talked to

ok bro's just trolling at this point

[rugged rampart]

Reach out isn’t gonna make a difference

You start getting reach outs once you have quant on resume

Depends on if you have good projects..

Some good project ideas that quant recruiters have told me about:
MERN discord clone
Calculator app
Chess engine
Todo list
Tic tac toe game
Automated trading bot

But fr it’s like interesting +impressive + shows knowledge

[neon mirage]

This is typically in the education/ or below it. USAMO is impressive it should def be quick to notice

[lethal apex]

stop playing w em 🙏😭

[dire finch]

automatotatashunal

[gusty vector]

are discovery days generally 1st-2nd years only

[dire finch]

grr mechanistic interpretability

[rotund glacier]

Todo list??

[dire finch]

my nlp reading group was reading the function vectors paper and i was literally like

wait another latent space exploit?

🥴

[rotund glacier]

Can I get a TQD invite? I actually work at a quant company 😆

Rage bait

[terse barn]

hi ant tree

[rotund glacier]

Hi

[tiny sleet]

can i as well

[stiff dagger]

does anyone wanna work with me on a novel idea for stocks

basically it uses machine learning trained on past data to predict prices

ok. you can work on translating foreign news to get more information

no. i have past trauma with dms.

my girlfriend cheated on me in my dms

[tiny sleet]

yo @lunar thicket can you send an invite link to the tqd server

[dense meadow]

yo @lunar thicket can you send an invite link to the tqd server

[grim sigil]

yo @lunar thicket can you send an invite link to the tqd server

(im a sheep)

[ivory sun]

yo @lunar thicket i wanna give u backshots

[mellow aurora]

yo @lunar thicket i wanna gently let my seed soak into you

[distant parrot]

yo @lunar thicket can you send an invite link to the tqd server

[low vault]

yo @​andrew can you send an invite link to the tqd server

[cold heart]

yo @lunar thicket can you send an invite link to the tqd server

[cursive latch]

Is any of the tqd glaze actually fr or are ppl just memeing

[tiny sleet]

i have no clue, i was genuinely asking and then i seem to have let off this chain

[neon mirage]

Selling tqd link $10 very cheap

Goes up 1$ every buyer

[low vault]

can i buy

[untold prawn]

selling tqd link $9 very cheaper

https://tenor.com/view/mewing-gif-11339234860235694668

[strange fiber]

why make alts on discord

ts just weird lol

[tiny sleet]

what did bro do

unfortunate

i see

happens

people online can be like that

what can we do

[strange fiber]

leave the drama in the dm's bro

this is next level ngmi

and that's coming from me

[tiny sleet]

perhaps 🤷‍♂️

[snow atlas]

ok SIG oa was easy

way too easy

[tiny sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/dead-my-honest-reaction-damn-skull-skeleton-gif-15885937969029652188

[snow atlas]

kitty?

andrew?

sorry i'm new

oh lol

[tiny sleet]

some crazy lore

[snow atlas]

yeah that lore is crazy

nahhh ain't no way

how's that possible

oh

[tiny sleet]

didn't you just say she spoke nonsense about you

[snow atlas]

what year are you?

nvm 100% believable

[tiny sleet]

im so fucking confused

crazy

is ft full time

[snow atlas]

oh damnn nice

i'm a first year lol

[tiny sleet]

why is she your girlfriend then lol

[tiny sleet]

damn and you got oa for sig?

are you in a top 5 school

https://tenor.com/view/dead-my-honest-reaction-damn-skull-skeleton-gif-15885937969029652188

[mellow aurora]

This dude is rage baiting stop interacting

[tiny sleet]

wtf is going on

[mellow aurora]

He's some sad basement dweller kid dick in hand

Never touched a woman in his life

This has been his hobby for the last month

How many accounts have you made

[tiny sleet]

why is bro pinging me with each piece of the lore

i cannot be brought into this

yo what why do i gotta get pinged with this shit when it's between you and your girlfriend

keep that shit in the dms

[mellow aurora]

@split lintel can we get rid of the inbred

[strange fiber]

hahah yeah I wonder why she's blocked you LOL

[split lintel]

Sure

[mellow aurora]

Andrew don't worry I hate you not for being Hispanic but every other aspect of you!

[dire finch]

jeepers

[mellow aurora]

Me and Andrew fr

[low vault]

I thought discord was ipban

how does he keep coming back

[dire finch]

bro hasn't passed precalc but can install a vpn

i orzed

[low vault]

holy orz

mans a cs god