• Laeeth Isharc (44/44) Mar 23 2023 Hi.
• Monkyyy (3/7) Mar 24 2023 "Not hedge fund" and "scripting" doesn't seem like enough of a
• Sergey (8/17) Mar 24 2023 My guess it is something related to context reconstruction :)
• Paolo Invernizzi (4/23) Mar 24 2023 Sort of ... you need LLaMA 7B and to train it, but they are
• Adam Wilson (11/30) Mar 24 2023 That makes sense to me as well. When I last spoke with Laeeth his
• Andrej Mitrovic (3/6) Mar 28 2023 Do you believe Symmetry will continue to invest in D after your

Laeeth Isharc <laeethnospam spammenot-laeeth.com> writes:

Hi.

For those that didn't hear, I resigned from Symmetry in September 
and my last day was a couple of weeks back.

I don't have any concrete plans yet, but I've agreed not to do 
anything in the hedge fund world for quite some time and I've 
also agreed not to hire anyone that's an employee or consultant 
for Symmetry.

Out of little acorns do great oaks grow and the best beginnings 
are often not much, just a little hobby project.  I sat down in 
early 2014 and wrote down what I called hedge fund in a box - 
what are the things I am going to need to build so I never have 
to worry about them again.  Not always quite in that form, but 
it's remarkable how many of those little beginnings ended up 
coming to fruition in what was an 11bn hedge fund by the time I 
left.

With that said for now I don't have much, just a few ideas about 
how to solve some of my own problems, knowing there's just a 
chance they might be useful down the line to others.

I'm paying out of my own pocket and my budget is modest for now 
so this isn't going to be an opportunity interesting for someone 
currently embedded in big tech !

You can speak to some of the people I hired at Symmetry - if this 
ever becomes anything then I will pay well to very well over 
time.  But you shouldn't bet on it becoming anything at all.  If 
you do good work but nothing comes of it and you're interested in 
getting a job in finance I can help you navigate that world and 
the experience may help you achieve your goals.  But I am not 
sure I would recommend most jobs in finance.

What kind of work?  Initially some scripting in D to integrate 
things and a little bit of work with LLM embeddings and fine 
tuning, STT transcription, classifiers, parsing.  Some 
presentation work - gui or web I don't mind.

What kind of person?  You need to be a talented hacker that's 
interested in learning and accomplishing things.  You don't need 
an impressive CV - my best documentation Dev hire was a Spanish 
baker with no enterprise experience.  (Just the kernel, lol).

What's the vision?  Well I will say more when I can but how 
people do work today in organisations is broken and it's 
miserable and I would like to play a part in transforming that.

Full remote is ideal as I live on an island.  If you happen to 
live near Rennes, Saint Malo or Amsterdam then it's easier for me 
to visit you.

Let me know any questions.


laeeth+reboot at laeeth.com

Monkyyy <crazymonkyyy gmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 23 March 2023 at 16:02:46 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
 Hi.

 For those that didn't hear, I resigned from Symmetry in 
 September and my last day was a couple of weeks back.

 [...]

"Not hedge fund" and "scripting" doesn't seem like enough of a 
job description to me

Sergey <kornburn yandex.ru> writes:

On Friday, 24 March 2023 at 07:54:06 UTC, Monkyyy wrote:
 On Thursday, 23 March 2023 at 16:02:46 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
 Hi.

 For those that didn't hear, I resigned from Symmetry in 
 September and my last day was a couple of weeks back.

 [...]

 "Not hedge fund" and "scripting" doesn't seem like enough of a 
 job description to me

My guess it is something related to context reconstruction :) 
When someone said something with quite limited words and 
sentences - he has a lot more context in his mind. Not always 
this context is the same for other people. Based on description 
this script could help to align the same context of conversation. 
Just guessing :)

Btw is any LLM embedding available in open source?

Paolo Invernizzi <paolo.invernizzi gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 24 March 2023 at 09:01:21 UTC, Sergey wrote:
 On Friday, 24 March 2023 at 07:54:06 UTC, Monkyyy wrote:
 On Thursday, 23 March 2023 at 16:02:46 UTC, Laeeth Isharc 
 wrote:
 Hi.

 For those that didn't hear, I resigned from Symmetry in 
 September and my last day was a couple of weeks back.

 [...]

 "Not hedge fund" and "scripting" doesn't seem like enough of a 
 job description to me

 My guess it is something related to context reconstruction :) 
 When someone said something with quite limited words and 
 sentences - he has a lot more context in his mind. Not always 
 this context is the same for other people. Based on description 
 this script could help to align the same context of 
 conversation. Just guessing :)

 Btw is any LLM embedding available in open source?

Sort of ... you need LLaMA 7B and to train it, but they are 
trying to have permissions to release the weights also.

https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/03/13/alpaca.html

Adam Wilson <flyboynw gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 24 March 2023 at 09:01:21 UTC, Sergey wrote:
 On Friday, 24 March 2023 at 07:54:06 UTC, Monkyyy wrote:
 On Thursday, 23 March 2023 at 16:02:46 UTC, Laeeth Isharc 
 wrote:
 Hi.

 For those that didn't hear, I resigned from Symmetry in 
 September and my last day was a couple of weeks back.

 [...]

 "Not hedge fund" and "scripting" doesn't seem like enough of a 
 job description to me

 My guess it is something related to context reconstruction :) 
 When someone said something with quite limited words and 
 sentences - he has a lot more context in his mind. Not always 
 this context is the same for other people. Based on description 
 this script could help to align the same context of 
 conversation. Just guessing :)

 Btw is any LLM embedding available in open source?

That makes sense to me as well. When I last spoke with Laeeth his 
brain was 10 steps ahead of, and accelerating away from, wherever 
he was in the conversation. Keeping up with people like that 
means that either the other person has the IQ to fill in the 
context on the fly, or we use tools to fill it in for us lesser 
minds. I'm guessing that this is about the later since IQ isn't 
something that we have a lot of control over. Could be useful, 
but I can see quality being an issue, how useful such a tool 
would be would depend on how accurately it deduces the correct 
context. Not an easy problem to solve.

Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 23 March 2023 at 16:02:46 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
 Hi.

 For those that didn't hear, I resigned from Symmetry in 
 September and my last day was a couple of weeks back.

Do you believe Symmetry will continue to invest in D after your 
departure?