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Embracing Paradox

Exploring the balance between opposing principles in investment, such as trust versus skepticism, patience versus urgency, and transparency versus confidentiality, emphasizing the importance of harmony in decision-making.

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Jim Simons didn't want finance majors at Ren Tech. He believed they brought bias, not breakthroughs. Instead, he built his team with PhD’s in physics, math, and computer science. The result? A hedge fund with 39% average annual returns and one of the best track records in history.

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🚨 BREAKING: Detailed list of all 44 people in Meta's Superintelligence team. — 50% from China — 75% have PhDs, 70% Researchers — 40% from OpenAI, 20% DeepMind, 15% Scale — 20% L8+ level — 75% 1st gen immigrants Each of these people are... See more

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zuck is offering individual researchers the equivalent of Cursor's ENTIRE series B, that's how badly they're bleeding talent https://t.co/vuKmLrl57w

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Just took a peek at the in-person high school Math Academy curriculum, and it's pretty out of this world. A student knowing abstract algebra, real analysis, complex analysis, numerical analysis, etc. before even starting college is so outside the realm of what was possible in my mind for anyone but Terrence Tao-type prodigies that it's... See more

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Li Lu is one of the most successful investors of the last decades. But there are almost no public videos of him. But in 2006, he held a Valuation Class at Columbia. Here's the Video: https://t.co/xWq9dorIzy

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Paul Novosad

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This is Einstein at Princeton, 1935. He was tasked to find which young physicists would revolutionize science. His unconventional method found Oppenheimer, Wheeler, and Nobel-Prize winners before anyone knew their names. Here is his ONE method to spotting genius:... See more

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Liang Mong Song was TSMC's renegade genius. He gets frustrated with the leadership, so he defects to South Korea and single handedly pushes Samsung to overtake TSMC. Then SMIC, China's main foundry, poaches him. He becomes CEO and brings along a conga line of Samsung and TSMC's top talent.... See more

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