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Statistical modeling of PoS systems with Tarun Chitra

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What Do You Learned in Applied Physics?

When I graduated college, I studied math and more or less electrical engineering. And then I got this weird job at this billionaire funded private research institute called D. Shaw Research in New York. So I ended up working there for five years and that dissuaded me from going to grad school. We were building ASICS kind of to do these large scale simulations of proteins and generic sort of condensed matter physics. The previous thing taught me a lot about modeling interactions between things. And then the finance thing taught me how you model rationality and irrationality and accommodate for irrationality.

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