Hacker News Reader

Funded by billionaire mathematician and hedge fund founder, where the algorithms make all the decisions

1976 winner of the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry

The person referenced above is “James Simon”.

Simons*

Mostly known for being the founder of Renaissance Technologies which is one of the largest and most successful hedge funds.

Also the Simons Foundation, which funds the Simons Institute, which is just fantastic

Aka, the Simons in Chern-Simons theory.

(Albert Schwarz formulated Chern–Simons theory, a topological quantum field theory, using the Chern-Simons form)