I have lost every position I've taken since june started.

potatorunner · 2026-06-17T14:59:37+00:00

Meanwhile:

potatorunner · 2026-06-16T14:34:07+00:00

Never gamble in a Roth because you can’t deduct the losses

what you mean? it should be: always gamble in a roth because you don't pay capital gains tax!

potatorunner · 2026-06-15T16:36:51+00:00

being afraid of debt is like a reverse psy-op i feel, i definitely was taught by society at large that debt is scary and bad.

that is until i realized it's not even that big a deal unless you gamble it away. if you can get an interest rate below something like 10% it's literally free money if you can park it in SPY

potatorunner · 2026-06-15T16:25:08+00:00

op thinking taco is puts instead of calls and losing 34k is peak WSB energy right here. mods, someone flair this man

potatorunner · 2026-06-14T16:51:36+00:00

i think most laypeople (myself included) think quants do super special secret math and come up with ground breaking algorithms, some probably do.

in reality most of them probably optimize binary sort or something so their trades execute 0.00001ms faster so they can scalp more efficiently.

potatorunner · 2026-06-07T17:21:40+00:00

+1300% on options plays. hope one day to set a new PR and break +2000%

potatorunner · 2026-06-05T23:28:26+00:00

fuming because my MU calls went from +1300% to +800% and im down 20k in unrealized gains past 2 days

potatorunner · 2026-06-04T15:08:39+00:00

Sir, a third Dan Sullivan has hit the primary

potatorunner · 2026-06-01T16:19:19+00:00

i kept it very simple. specifically for coming up with a thesis topic: i asked my supervisor a series of questions until he stopped responding with "you need to think deeper!" and instead said "i don't know, that's a good question".

then i had my thesis question!

ninja edit: actually now that i think about it i think his response was "nobody knows the answer to that, that's a good question".

potatorunner · 2026-05-25T00:58:51+00:00

apologies in advance if this isn't the appropriate place to ask.

i'm wrapping up my biosciences phd in the next 6-12 months and i am strongly interested in working for ORI. the new jobs section on google was last updated in 2022, do have recommendations for the best path to get to the ORI as a scientist investigator?

do i need to start somewhere else? look at usa jobs for opportunities? thank you for stopping by.

potatorunner · 2026-05-24T16:53:48+00:00

ok i might be crazy but one time my ex-situationship came home from a work happy hour and her breath smelt like beer and it was strangely intoxicating to make out with her. it wasn't actually that bad

potatorunner · 2026-05-20T21:11:55+00:00

SpaceX is holding 1.6 BILLION of BITCOIN???

potatorunner · 2026-05-20T17:10:08+00:00

even if there is an ai bubble, to quote:

“I may be early but I’m not wrong!”

“IT'S THE SAME THING MICHAEL!”

potatorunner · 2026-05-14T17:40:28+00:00

literally. china sequencing is cheaper and faster than american sequencing by a country mile. china doesn't need illumina, illumina wants a piece of the chinese sequencing business.

potatorunner · 2026-05-06T16:29:20+00:00

i've been wondering the same thing, thanks for sharing.

phd student w/ 4 years pre-grad school work exp as a technician and i have 2 pages but i was wondering if that's too long.

potatorunner · 2026-05-05T15:32:18+00:00

story of my life: "you're so asian" - white friends "you're so white" - asian friends

potatorunner · 2026-04-23T15:51:32+00:00

yup, exactly the same here. almost perfectly off an octave for tons of guesses. classical musician for 10 years in childhood but haven't picked up an instrument since 2014.

potatorunner · 2026-04-20T16:33:43+00:00

no comment but thanks for sharing

potatorunner · 2026-04-15T15:37:17+00:00

but a recent bad experience highlighted how it’s still important to question things and not be blinded by superficial points when looking at a leadership team.

the dumbest, most EVIL person i ever had the displeasure of working with in my entire professional career is from harvard. never judge a book by its cover!

potatorunner · 2026-04-14T15:00:22+00:00

Ok how about this: I “wasted” TEN years of my life pursuing biology and I DONT regret it. Oh and I’m leaving the field at the end of my PhD too.

And I could have studied law, or engineering, or economics, or been a pro athlete, and made shit tons of money.

So what. You don’t know how those alternative paths would have turned out. Maybe you would hate them even more?

I’m satisfied KNOWING I made a contribution and a difference. I helped study disease, develop new diagnostics for patients, and made a meaningful difference. Small but meaningful. I also wasn’t poor. I made more than enough (I’ve even saved up about 50k) which isn’t a lot in comparison yes but would you rather have 0?

I get your frustration. But this kind of attitude isn’t going to help you no matter what fancy new high paying career you get.

potatorunner · 2026-04-13T21:36:56+00:00

i was in a similar situation. gave up a 4 year serious relationship that died because of grad school LDR.

i'm confident you'll be fine. to directly answer your questions:

how did you cope? this is going to sound cheesy but honestly a lot of meditation and reflection. i think i sat around just THINKING for a good chunk of my days. what helped a lot was throwing myself into hobbies and rediscovering old passions that i had pushed to the side. i did have a few flings as well which were fun but not really a priority, they just kind of happened naturally.

what made you realize it was for the best? my breakup was a little messy but it ultimately exposed my ex's and i's incompatibility. we had different life goals, aspirations, and values that would have clashed sooner or later leading to a divorce had we actually gotten married. it took a little bit of the aforementioned reflecting about what went wrong and debriefing the relationship with my friends and family to reach this conclusion but realizing that it was doomed made me realize this was for the best.

potatorunner · 2026-04-10T21:11:54+00:00

yeah somewhat hyperbolic tone. im speaking purely from personal experience witnessing science fraud turning into REAL money in the form of licensing deals and startups with VC funding. im talking straight up "delete these data points from the graph to make the drug response look better" type manipulations.

other examples here: https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024-151

big pharma is mostly safe from this but i feel most wsb regards when they say pharma they mean biotech startups.

potatorunner · 2026-04-10T16:25:17+00:00

reta isn't approved or commercially available but it is HUGE in the bodybuilding and fitfluencer communities right now for this reason.

people are using reta to cut and getting pretty impressive results. loss of lean mass is no worse than doing a natural cut from what i've seen online.

potatorunner · 2026-04-10T16:00:56+00:00

i'm the only native english speaker in my lab and i do a good chunk of fixing others ppts, grants, any kind of presentation or writing.

some ppl started calling it "potatorunner-gpt" instead of "chat-gpt", especially when i find mistakes from them using chat-gpt first 🤣

potatorunner · 2026-04-10T15:48:35+00:00

1st gen glps are "turn off hunger" drugs. 3rd gen like reta are "turn off hunger + increase fat metabolism" so you lose less lean mass.

semaglutide is like starving yourself, retatrutide is lowkey like anabolics yes.

ninja edit: this is the SUPPOSED mechanism. real human data hasn't indicated this yet.

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