Hi.

For those that didn't hear, I resigned from Symmetry in September and my last day was a couple of weeks back.

I don't have any concrete plans yet, but I've agreed not to do anything in the hedge fund world for quite some time and I've also agreed not to hire anyone that's an employee or consultant for Symmetry.

Out of little acorns do great oaks grow and the best beginnings are often not much, just a little hobby project. I sat down in early 2014 and wrote down what I called hedge fund in a box - what are the things I am going to need to build so I never have to worry about them again. Not always quite in that form, but it's remarkable how many of those little beginnings ended up coming to fruition in what was an 11bn hedge fund by the time I left.

With that said for now I don't have much, just a few ideas about how to solve some of my own problems, knowing there's just a chance they might be useful down the line to others.

I'm paying out of my own pocket and my budget is modest for now so this isn't going to be an opportunity interesting for someone currently embedded in big tech !

You can speak to some of the people I hired at Symmetry - if this ever becomes anything then I will pay well to very well over time. But you shouldn't bet on it becoming anything at all. If you do good work but nothing comes of it and you're interested in getting a job in finance I can help you navigate that world and the experience may help you achieve your goals. But I am not sure I would recommend most jobs in finance.

What kind of work? Initially some scripting in D to integrate things and a little bit of work with LLM embeddings and fine tuning, STT transcription, classifiers, parsing. Some presentation work - gui or web I don't mind.

What kind of person? You need to be a talented hacker that's interested in learning and accomplishing things. You don't need an impressive CV - my best documentation Dev hire was a Spanish baker with no enterprise experience. (Just the kernel, lol).

What's the vision? Well I will say more when I can but how people do work today in organisations is broken and it's miserable and I would like to play a part in transforming that.

Full remote is ideal as I live on an island. If you happen to live near Rennes, Saint Malo or Amsterdam then it's easier for me to visit you.

Let me know any questions.

laeeth+reboot at laeeth.com

On Thursday, 23 March 2023 at 16:02:46 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:

"Not hedge fund" and "scripting" doesn't seem like enough of a job description to me

On Friday, 24 March 2023 at 07:54:06 UTC, Monkyyy wrote:

My guess it is something related to context reconstruction :) When someone said something with quite limited words and sentences - he has a lot more context in his mind. Not always this context is the same for other people. Based on description this script could help to align the same context of conversation. Just guessing :)

Btw is any LLM embedding available in open source?

On Friday, 24 March 2023 at 09:01:21 UTC, Sergey wrote:

That makes sense to me as well. When I last spoke with Laeeth his brain was 10 steps ahead of, and accelerating away from, wherever he was in the conversation. Keeping up with people like that means that either the other person has the IQ to fill in the context on the fly, or we use tools to fill it in for us lesser minds. I'm guessing that this is about the later since IQ isn't something that we have a lot of control over. Could be useful, but I can see quality being an issue, how useful such a tool would be would depend on how accurately it deduces the correct context. Not an easy problem to solve.

On Thursday, 23 March 2023 at 16:02:46 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:

Do you believe Symmetry will continue to invest in D after your departure?