When we're in highly noisy situations, we also tend to see patterns when there are none. It's easy to make a trade where you buy a very high-variant stock that moves a lot and short or sell a lower-variant one. But as soon as you reach a bear market where the stocks are generally going down, that sort of trade will consistently lose money instead.
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What is risk-driven development? How should we weigh advice, best practices, and common sense in a domain? What makes some feedback loops better than others? What's the best way to take System 2 knowledge and convert it to System 1 intuition? What are forward-chaining and backward-chaining? When is it best to use one over the other? What are the advantages and disadvantages of centralization and decentralization?
Satvik Beri is a cofounder and head of Data Science at Temple Capital, a quantitative hedge fund specializing in cryptocurrency. He is a big believer in the theory of constraints, and he has a background helping companies find and eliminate major development bottlenecks. Some of his interests include machine learning, functional programming, and mentorship. You can reach him at satvik.beri@gmail.com.
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