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mvind

176 karma · joined August 22, 2019

Professional quant trader, amateur in pretty much everything else.
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mvind··on Risk Everything (2007)
Great read, thanks for sharing.
mvind··on Wasting time in tech interviews
Leetcode is great. If you can't solve a couple of easy LC questions, I would question your problem-solving skills.
mvind··on Ask HN: Where does your mind wander to?
I saw a picture a couple of weeks ago about a person on Twitter who lost around 90% of his followers because they were bots. He complained that he had spent the last +7 years building up this "community", which in the end consisted of bots.

As late yesterday I saw two youtube shorts videos using deep fakes models of celebrities pushing crypto Ponzi schemes. I wonder how widespread bot usage is, and their connection to "echo chambers" that seem to echo louder and louder into mainstream media.

mvind··on Ask HN: Who's having a ton of fun at work and what are you doing?
Have you experienced a caveat in terms of coding quality? I study mathematics, and I think it is pretty standard for mathematicians to disregard theoretical run times when experimenting and doing "napkin" computations. Invariably this leads to relatively poor code quality. Speaking from experience, I just failed a coding interview because I solved the question like a mathematician would do, i.e. a quick and dirty way. What is your experience with this phenomenon? I know academics often gets railed lacking concepts in data structures etc.
mvind··on Ask HN: I am losing hope in humanity. What should I do?
My advice: do drugs
mvind··on Need advice: A precarious situation in my polymath career
The prototypical HN poster.. this site sucks nowadays
mvind··on Ask HN: Share your ideas for a side project
Todo list?
mvind··on Living on 24 hours a day
* assuming you have a pagan slave population which can be worked to death in order to provide for the intelligentsia utopia fantasy
mvind··on Things I Learnt in 2021
After going through 1000's of articles this is what remained?
mvind··on Ask HN: Is it even worth reading news outside of HN?
I dont regard HN as a news site. Not that much of critical importance is discussed here.
mvind··on Cryptocurrency Is Bunk
Crypto currencies (or atleast DeFI) is trying to solve a pretty pragmatic problem: There is 1.7B unbanked people in the world and banking services are outdated and unavailable for large portion of humankind.

I mean that is pretty good problem to work on IMO. I think articles like this that talk about monetary politics are missing the point a bit.

I live in Denmark, and even then it takes approx ~10-24 hours to transfer funds between banks, imagine if we could reduce that time to mere seconds- or minutes?

mvind··on A World Without Sci-Hub
i agree with this guy!!
mvind··on Goldman Sachs, Ozy Media and a $40M conference call gone wrong
"The president of the Ford Foundation, Mr. Walker, said in an email that he had confidence in Ozy. “We need new media companies to challenge the status quo, shake things up, and go deep on the issues that matter most,” he said. “In an increasingly diverse world, it’s no coincidence that a company with co-founders of Black and Indian descent would be so successful.” Remember this is the sort person investing capital nowadays..
mvind··on Ask HN: What have you done that mattered?
I matter to myself, hence my existence seems to answer your question
mvind··on Show HN: I wrote a local-first notes app for Mac, with data longevity in mind
Number 5689 note taking app on HN.
mvind··on Ask HN: What's a tool that has made your life 10x easier?
working out and eating plant based.
mvind··on Show HN: A Site for Learning Vim
Why not just train on your codebase/IDE? The best practice you can get is by actually using vim when developing. I do not see a need to go "practice" on a website.
mvind··on Show HN: A Site for Learning Vim
Why would I use this over the already included tutorial in vim?
mvind··on Crypto-Trading vs. Options Trading
Absolute drivel..
mvind··on Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
I built an online flashcard platform (memordo.com) which support live-rendering of latex and codeblocks, and custom study/repetition schedules. Memordo has totally replaced Anki for me, which is nice to build something you actually prefer to use.
mvind··on Show HN: An Anti-StackOverflow. A place to ask broad questions on how to start
I expect to see a landing page with questions instead of an registration page.
mvind··on Ask HN: Would you like this feature on HN?
No
mvind··on Show HN: I built Creodocs, a document creation platform based on LaTeX
Why would I ever use this over overleaf?
mvind··on Bitcoin’s Overnight Collapse Probability Is About 50%
One point as a researcher working in a central bank and studying state-of-the art macroeconomic theory, is the absolute conviction that some crypto holders have that society is rotten to the core and that the financial industry (and for that matter the broader well established large cap economy) is a malfunctioning/rotten machine only benefiting the 1%.

I mean reading journals on monetary policy transmission, central banking, and finance in general, it is an extremely complex arena (understanding the global economy might be the most complex man made "game" to try to understand). And those researchers will readily admit faults and shortcomings of our current theories. I never ever see any statements from researchers that carries the same strength of conviction about any of the aforementioned topics compared to the crypto crowd, whatsoever.

Some perspective might lend itself useful.

mvind··on Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
I'm struggling with https://memordo.com which is a minimalist flashcard platform where you can create public and private decks.

I use the tool religiously because I prefer my tool over the others tools available. I think the strategy forward for me is to create some public decks that others people would like to study.. Do you guys have any cool ideas for decks?

mvind··on Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles
Hey looks great! What stack have you used? In particularly how did you develop such clean UI?
mvind··on Ask HN: What are your goals for 2021?
- Keep doing what I did in 2020

- Enroll in PhD program

mvind··on Show HN: I built a flashcard platform that supports latex and code highlighting
It uses the simplest spaced repetition algorithm I think there exists, i.e. a 1-3-7 days interval.. schedule. But you can also just quite easily just study N cards, where you can filter on cards tags/types.
mvind··on Show HN: I built a flashcard platform that supports latex and code highlighting
I have tried to introduce my friends to flashcards using Anki but the whole interface and program somehow seemed daunting and outdated for them. So I have tried to build an online platform with a minimalist UI where it is much easier to collaborate and create flashcards.
mvind··on Show HN: I built a flashcard platform that supports latex and code highlighting
Hi HN!

I'm the university student behind memordo. I built this because I wanted to help my classmates use flashcards, because I believe they genuinely help with retention.

I started from scratch with a blank html document, and now ~600 hours later I have landed on a nuxt/laravel stack. I have learned so much from building out this platform. I have spent a lot of time on the dynamics of public/private decks, checkout: https://memordo.com/app/public/244 to get an idea of the platform.

Anyways I would love to hear what you guys think about this. I myself personally use this tool everyday to review flashcards.

/Morten

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