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Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo)
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Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo)
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Gen Z boy in a Gen X body. Pronounciation: Jew ZEP peh (NOT pay!) Pah lay AW! low go. Sister account: @yogappygappy.
New York City
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    Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo)
    @__paleologo
    Mar 21
    The coming of Spring. Happy birthday, wherever you are. Before you know it, the lilies will be in bloom.
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    Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo)
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    Mar 21, 2025
    Happy birthday, wherever you are
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    Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo)
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    Mar 14, 2025
    Dude. They did not change *my* life. And I wrote one of them.
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    ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ
    @hamptonism
    Mar 14, 2025
    How to change your life in 800 pages:
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    Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo)
    @__paleologo
    Sep 4, 2025
    Now do revenue per employee
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    Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo)
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    Aug 28, 2024
    OK, that’s what I’d call a good email from a total stranger.
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    Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo)
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    Mar 27, 2025
    I did not realized that “Learning Theory from First Principles” has been published. It is still freely available. I really like this book, for its choice of topics. It covers everything that matters.
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    Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo)
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    Oct 8, 2025
    The Big Short is a fantasy about being a hedge fund manager with no drawdown limit
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    Neil Renic
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    Oct 8, 2025
    Indiana Jones is a fantasy about being a professor with no admin duties
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    Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo)
    @__paleologo
    Aug 2, 2025
    I did not know that, for any random variable x, | mean(x) - median(x) | <= stdev(x) Direct proof:
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    Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo)
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    Jan 15, 2025
    Longer quote:
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    QuantSeeker
    @quantseeker
    Jan 14, 2025
    Nick Patterson, formerly with Renaissance Technologies: "...the most important thing to do in data analysis is to do the simple things right. So, here's a kind of non-secret about what we did at Renaissance: in my opinion, our most important statistical tool was simple regression
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    Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo)
    @__paleologo
    Nov 4, 2024
    Let’s say, pessimistically, 30m seconds left. Begin.
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    Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo)
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    Mar 1, 2025
    Basic hedge fund economics 🧵. N.B.: 1. for educational purposes only and I will keep it super-simple 2. ofc, personal views 3. No soliciting! I am not coming to defend hedge funds, just to explain some basics. And I am not going to answer replies on the Current Thing. 1/
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    Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo)
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    Nov 8, 2025
    McCarthy read 300 books to research Blood Meridian. And it sold 1883 copies when it came out. Life is a linear diffusion with drift. Looks like brownian motion at short time scales. But it's a straight line when you zoom out.
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    Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo)
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    Mar 15, 2025
    Replying to @JayAndelle0
    Divine Comedy, Canto XXVI digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine-c…
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    Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo)
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    Jul 16, 2025
    Finished this [didn't read the causality chapters] and still recommend it. Available online for free.
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    Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo)
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    Nov 12, 2025
    I am afraid that the LeCun-Wang swap was not a good trade.
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    TBPN
    @tbpn
    Nov 9, 2025
    When we sat down with @alexandr_wang at Meta Connect 2025, he shared his advice for young people: “If you’re 13 right now, you should spend all your time vibe coding. This is the Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg moment. The people who grow up with these tools will have an immense
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