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The D. E. Shaw Group
Company blog · deshaw.com/libraryeconomicsai
The D. E. Shaw Group is the company blog at deshaw.com, writing about economics and ai. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The D. E. Shaw Group's own site, not a blog. HN comments link it as an example of a quantitative hedge fund, mention it in a job listing, or cite it in discussions about the firm.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The D. E. Shaw group is a global investment and technology development firm founded in 1988 with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. The firm has earned an international reputation for successful investing based on innovation, careful risk management, and the quality and depth of its staff.
What Hacker News says?
The D. E. Shaw Group | Software Developer | Tech Ops Engineer | Site Reliability Engineer | Infrastructure Software Engineer | New York, NY | Onsite | Full-Time | Visa The D. E. Shaw Group is a global investment and technology development firm. Founded in 1988 over a small bookstore in downtown New York City, we began with six employees and quickly became a pioneer in computational finance. Since then, we’ve built a…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)”Submitted Machine Teaching: What I Learned from My Optimizer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionActually, there are also people [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5] who are very successful betting small sums (relative to their total investable capital), very frequently, on securities they believe are slightly over or under valued. [0] - https://www.rentec.com/ [1] - https://www.twosigma.com/ [2] - https://www.citadel.com/ [3] - https://www.mlp.com/ [4] - https://www.deshaw.com/ [5] - https://www.worldquant.com/
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on “Introduction to Augur, an open-source, decentralized betting marketplace”Submitted Supply, Demand, and S&P 500 Financing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCTRL + F "Tue. Nov. 24th 2009" on that page. Apparently someone got into the Gmail account of one of the emails used for that ad and found various references to http://deshaw.com , as well as the various other people mentioning D.E Shaw in the comments. I guess that's the end of the mystery? Or am I missing something?
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on “Who has been running this classified ad for more than ten years?”The "Wouldn't get hired" comment is pretty common -- in fact, an interview with Daniel Loeb about his multi-billion dollar fund ended with him saying something like "I couldn't get hired here. Bad grades in college, no MBA. If you want to get a job here, you have to start preparing when you're thirteen." (So once again, these guys are all using the same model). Some funds have a program explicitly designed to hire p…
Comment linking /articles/Alpha_2.pdf
on “Interview with a Hedge Fund Manager: "I'm sure today I would never get hired."”