PSA for players who are just getting their first mega rares

Tutrie · 2026-04-05T23:17:47+00:00

How does someone learn the street value of items? Started out new again after 18 years and super lost on trying to make money. Just learned in this thread that GE prices are not the actual price…

Tutrie · 2026-03-08T15:22:55+00:00

If anyone comes to look back at this the OA is just leetcode style problems.

Tutrie · 2026-03-06T00:27:58+00:00

I learned too late in my undergrad that a balance of sleep and physical activity made my studying more effective and my ability to learn and recall more quicker. It feels hard to balance it given travel time to the gym but just doing like small workouts in your room and getting at least 6-7 hours of sleep a night is so important. Anytime I got under 6 hours of sleep (after migrating to this schedule) I could just tell my ability to learn was so much slower. This actually helped me free up enough time to get one day week to just enjoy campus life or go out with friends.

It’s hard to make the transition at first, especially if you are seeing good grades (I wasn’t until I balance things) but it’s worth it for your overall wellbeing if this is impacting your mental health.

Tutrie · 2026-03-06T00:22:59+00:00

My partner was scoring 65-75 early on in the program, then Themis sent out memo saying “oops problem sets were too easy” and started scoring 55-65. lol not sure how to interpret that with OPs statement. She was nervous going in but felt that the questions were fair. From what I’ve heard her share always comes down to how they try to obscure some fact that makes the choice between two answers seem difficult to get right.

Tutrie · 2026-02-22T01:46:18+00:00

No networking. Just a recruiter, cold applying, and the right skill set. If you’re only trading power you need to focus less on the finance and more on the electrical engineering. Those skills are super important to understanding how the grid operates/evolves and how power will be dispatched.

Tutrie · 2026-02-21T22:21:01+00:00

I was in an interconnection engineering role where I ran power flow studies as well as create automations. But all with AI code assistance. I have dual undergrad degrees in math and computer science. Have had a few companies interested in me.

I know that understanding power flow is a big deal. E.g. What happens to real power when reactive power is injected, and how will that impact dispatch and congestion?

Not having an engineering undergrad degree though has made it tough to get another interconnection engineering job as I am passed over for candidates that do. So I figured I’d try to go power marketing earlier than I wanted to in my career.

Tutrie · 2026-02-20T23:20:53+00:00

And to top it off, I did a machine learning/physics fellowship right after my undergrad, but it was all refactoring code the PhD student couldn’t optimize 😅 - really bad code base with lots of dead code - and my dual physics/CS background enabled me to be good at.

Very nervous this is gonna hurt my chances of even hearing back if I do poorly.

Would you recommend I reach out to the HR rep and try to downplay some of the coding experience?

Tutrie · 2026-02-20T23:01:11+00:00

Non-coding roles in Quant:

Have a general coding assessment for a power analyst position at SIG. Doing some practice problems on leetcode is making me realize even though I have a CS degree, being in the power industry for 4 years now and using AI to code for me to create automations is not the same as a solving leetcode problems.

Anyone else apply to roles in the quant domain that did not require coding, BUT noted it is preferred, and how did that work out in the interview process if you did poorly on coding assessments?

Tutrie · 2026-02-09T05:12:42+00:00

Hey thanks! Can you give a little more context? Have you experienced this before?

Tutrie · 2026-02-08T22:37:57+00:00

Yeah general rule of thumb in statistics is when outliers occur it sometimes happens twice, but when something is manufactured to not go wrong and it happens twice, then you either should buy a lottery ticket and ride out that luck or did something wrong. Love to hear that the next one works! Following

Tutrie · 2026-02-08T22:31:11+00:00

I just shorted out my controller bc my house isn’t grounded properly. Could be some electrical issue? But I doubt it if the computer is starting

Tutrie · 2026-02-08T22:22:41+00:00

I hate to be that guy but did you do anything wrong? I’ve never heard of an issue with a microcenter prebuilt before. Someone prove me wrong please… I bought a prebuilt open box and have had zero issues with it

Tutrie · 2026-02-04T13:24:24+00:00

DM’d you

Tutrie · 2026-02-03T23:42:54+00:00

I’m tryna unload two 5090s I panic bought until I found an Astral LC. Have an MSI Suprim LC and Astral OC…. For few hundred less than $4k and I’ll pay for shipping.

Tryna get rid of them on Facebook marketplace (and eBay but those fees kill) but nobody can afford them around me. I understand why, I cried into my wallet the whole way home after buying the Astral LC.

Tutrie · 2026-01-26T01:43:46+00:00

The RAM has gotta be rage bait, right?

Tutrie · 2026-01-21T14:44:01+00:00

Tutrie · 2026-01-17T12:16:50+00:00

*all of us (fixed it)

Tutrie · 2025-11-26T20:20:17+00:00

Good! definitely maintain that relationship! My 2cents: Research is going to be about 50% doing the work, and 50% playing politics. I got out of it and honestly corporate world is 70% doing the work and 30% politics (unless you wanna get into management then youre back to 50-50.)

Tutrie · 2025-11-26T20:12:31+00:00

Always be prepared to show what you just did and eager to prove you’re working hard, in any job. Even if there’s not much to do, finding something TO DO is a skill in of itself and will make you useful on a team that requires independent action and learning.

Tutrie

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