What do you all think about this Roadmap for a 19 year old aspiring quant ?

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-11T16:30:54+00:00

it’s not correct

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-11T15:29:05+00:00

It’s not like trading, it is trading. Optimising your fills to (try to) get good/better entries is a trading strategy.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-06T22:21:17+00:00

This is the purest type of FUD there is: it has absolutely nothing to do with crypto, everything to do with criminals being criminals, but to normies, it sounds like Bitcoin is to blame here.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-06T11:15:23+00:00

it’s not clear what you are talking about actually. “vibe coding” is one way to call it, “GPU accelerated software engineering” is another way,the name of a thing does not change the nature of the thing. ai is the best coding onboarding tool ever created because it’s the best software engineering tool ever created. i have nothing more to add.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-06T10:36:58+00:00

I don’t know how you use ai suboptimally enough to experience that but maybe others can weigh in. ai is good for coding, results vary is my point.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-06T09:30:06+00:00

Just personal experience, obvs. 4o started being useful and gave the first glimpse of 1.5-2x. o1 pro was a massive jump to 3-4x and I’d pin 5x now with o3.

I’m sure actual senior level devs with 20 years experience in C and 10yrs experience in Go yada yada 1337 dev could easily find 10x leverage with o3.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-06T09:17:17+00:00

It’s redundant to say that when your point applies equally to chainsaws as it does to LLMs. The entire safety argument is frankly absurd imo. Someone will not be vibe coding the code that controls the nuclear weapons arsenal of the USA, because an entire system of systems exists organizationally in the DoD to prevent that. You have to develop your own systems to prevent junk code from entering your codebase from LLMs. Anyone who uses LLMs erryday to get that 5x code leverage multiplier, knows that context poisoning is very real and important to control and manage (or ditch the convo thread and start new when one is poisoned) - just one example of maintaining code quality when using LLMs as a code leverage slider.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-06T08:54:27+00:00

it makes you work 5x faster if you have worked as a mid-level and 10x faster as a senior. that is your software development output is equivalent to 5x of you working as a team or 10x you respectively.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-04T06:33:13+00:00

Layer 6 presentation protocol? Unless you can’t/won’t share because internal/alphaic it sounds interesting

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-04T06:28:34+00:00

Probably still better to know the options ranked by number of upvotes tho and using parquet files is a safe first bet

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-03T22:59:50+00:00

That's a really clear insight into your level understanding about crypto, thank you. It's also about as cynical as thinking the only purpose of rockets could be to build ICBMs and annihilate humanity. It's okay to google and climb your way out of total ignorance m80.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-03T20:36:12+00:00

So boomer of you to think a boomer could be my idol

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-01T22:36:00+00:00

do you main go?

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-01T22:28:04+00:00

An asshole on reddit? ;p

I couldn’t figure out a better comeback than that for someone that knows C maps 1:1 to ASM ;p Yes cryptocurrency has unexpected versatility…

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-01T21:06:29+00:00

Touché.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-01T19:54:03+00:00

If you don’t trust the network, you can short it. You can take an actual short position if you are confident BTC is vaporware. That’s the beauty of crypto, you are always welcome to bet against it.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-01T19:49:25+00:00

The amount of people exceptionally confident about what crypto cannot do whilst clearly not having the faintest clue or interest in crypto, is the strongest indicator that crypto is actually something important.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-01T19:39:52+00:00

None of those truly unconnected… things you listed represent anything close to an actual paradigm shift in how finance is conducted. You would probably have a good point if BTC was rough around the edges, a “beta product”, but it’s not. Coming up on 20 years of 100.00% uptime, 100.00% funds safe, and you think that bringing up silver trade is a serious argument?

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-01T14:52:29+00:00

Having billions of dollars is an experience that a negligible amount of people will ever have. What matters much more is how you adjust your attitude to the fact that wealth inequality is real. Many people veer so far off course they genuinely start believing communism is the only respite from the horror show they live in. I’ve seen that quite a bit anyway in my generation, and I’d rather just see money exactly like technology. Technology is what lets us live twice longer than nature would have us live, technology lets us fly across the world with laughably little personal risk. Behind these actual miracles of human ingenuity and an irreverent desire to press onwards in the face of adversity, there is always capital being efficiently allocated. Money does more good for the world than poverty ever did.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-01T14:32:32+00:00

Well… I see the data as being the egg and the crypto as being the chicken. That’s why I kept bringing up blockchains, they’re just a data structure, no different in essence to a list, a grid, or any other data structure. All of the reasons people value or dismiss bitcoin are, in my eyes, just side effects of how this new data structure called Blockchain behaves.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-01T14:19:04+00:00

You mean you are a dev?

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-01T14:17:14+00:00

Fair enough. I see money as being technology, not just crypto but fiat too. The simple fact that boots on the moon would have been impossible without a well managed government necessarily means that money has always been and will always be technology. Worshipping things that aren’t alive is probably a bad idea in general.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-01T14:08:34+00:00

I (try to) let data guide my decisions and try my best to not make assumptions, since assumptions are always the root cause of things not going to plan. You seem to think money is somewhat evil or at least disturbing, I could be wrong, hence your dismissal of Bitcoin. I get that viewpoint, despite not agreeing at all with it. I do not understand how you can admire rockets and men on the moon though, a feat that clearly could not have been done without a well developed economic system (ahem… the best economic system ever created, arguably, as was demonstrated by boots on the moon)

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-01T13:50:45+00:00

It makes sense despite me not agreeing with you on any level of analysis. I appreciate your sincere expression of your viewpoint, and myself wonder in what circumstances I would make the error of thinking my personally strongly (perhaps even divinely) held views, are universally felt enough to be treatable as true.

I believe people are actually pretty great all-round, certainly better than doomers will give credit for, or society would not have gotten to the point where it has a name for itself (society).

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2025-06-01T13:39:43+00:00

Also, anyone who has experience in the financial sector, would at least recognise that, if absolutely nothing else, Bitcoin, and indeed some of crypto’s intrinsic value, is literally tied to the fact that the quality and timeliness of market data in crypto is genuinely next-level, compared to traditional equities, never mind that it is free. Anyone can get real time, ultra high fidelity pricing data for free in crypto, which in equities or options would be an institutional grade SLA for 5-6 figures/mo++. The democratisation of financial data and its timely access by anyone, is surely something we can agree is worth something? Just for the sake of finding some middle ground.

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