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Algo Trading, Strat, Macro. PhD &Hon Reader@UCL. Created MSc Algo Trading (‘17-now) 700+ students, & teaching online. Too much street-side experience to list.
London, UK
Joined April 2009
An Impulse Control Approach to Market Making in a Hawkes LOB Market Jain-Firoozye-Kochems-Treleaven @SSRN
https://t.co/pSz5L9RCpN
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We cloned Gmail, except you're logged in as Epstein and can see his emails
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For those who haven't seen the PBS documentary on the Math Corps (about the original Detroit-based branch, started 30+ years ago), it's extremely moving, and just amazing what founders Steve Kahn and Len Boehm managed to achieve, in impossible circumstances:
Please donate (tax-deductible) here: https://t.co/5C1w4ueSep As I’ve mentioned before, starting the Rutgers branch of the Math Corps summer camp has been one of the most meaningful experiences of my life. The Math Corps is a transformative free summer program that empowers
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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The Politics of Bank Supervision: From Eccles to Bessent - American Affairs Journal @AmericanAffrs
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Understanding the rationale behind Eccles’s ambitions also holds lessons for the current moment, revealing just how powerful and malleable bank supervision can be, why the industry’s current effort...
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We have crossed $100,000 in canceled NYT subscriptions. The plan to defund Bret Stephens is working.
Our "Defund Bret Stephens" campaign is going great. We are coming up on $100,000 in annual @nytimes subscriptions canceled, so we're well on the way to costing them the equivalent of his salary. The paper should be punished for pushing illegal wars!!
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We've become obsessed with the idea that the brain is a "Prediction Machine." The dominant theory in neuroscience says we're constantly simulating the future, calculating probabilities to guess what happens next. A new paper argues this is a complete illusion. The reality is
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CIA Assassination Plots: The Church Committee Report 50 Years Later @NSArchive
https://t.co/nu56Sj4IWj
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One police force is taking the fight to shoplifters via @FT How novel!
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Northamptonshire Police has shifted its approach to retail theft
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🧵 New #EpsteinFiles @BylineTimes investigation: how Steve Bannon’s planned “European revolution” ran through Nigel Farage’s network – with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein quietly helping in the background 1/12 https://t.co/VGkeyqDqUq
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Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
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The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025. US Constitution & institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
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Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays
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Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too
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In the future all my preregistered hypotheses will receive empirical support
AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current
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There are folks out there who, due to their limited education and intellect, are unable to understand basic principles of how science advances, impacts and improves the world that us humans build for ourselves. So instead, they lash out at scientists.
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This is terrifying. "[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them." ... "We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" -@seanjwestwood
AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current
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The first password thief (at least, as we know it today) was born #otd in 1940. Allan Scherr was only allowed to use MIT’s time-sharing system 4 hrs/week, so he found a way to print out all the PWs and started logging in as other users. https://t.co/EjDFz9VM4L
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Unpopular & controversial take: @LHSummers should have been canceled for his bad economic advice (on fiscal and monetary policy) in which he showed he had a very poor grasp of introductory economics, and not for the other stuff. His incompetence helped lead to the tea-bagger
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🔴 Google confirms new Chrome zero-day under attack. The flaw — CVE-2025-13223 — lets hackers run code through a crafted web page. It’s the third V8 exploit this year, and it’s already being used in the wild. Patch now ↓
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Google patches two critical V8 flaws, including actively exploited CVE-2025-13223, urging immediate Chrome updates.
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🚨"Most claimed statistical findings in cross-sectional return predictability are likely true" is forthcoming in Journal of Finance: Insights!🚨 In the spirit of this new journal, you can get to the main result very quickly 1/5
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