Head of AI @ HRT (@WeAreHRT), Chairman @ New York Transit Museum, Friend of Riverside Park Conservancy
New York, NY
Joined January 2013
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This was a real pleasure and honor, thanks @TheStalwart and @tracyalloway for the opportunity.
I hope this strips back some of the mystique of the quant trading world, and adds an interesting element to peoples understanding to the "AI story" we're all living through, that is distinct from LLMs.
NEW ODD LOTS:
It’s @iaindunning
@tracyalloway and I talk to the head of AI at @weHRTyou. We talk about how a major US market maker actually uses AI, why Al is the right term, predicting stock prices and the electricity bottleneck to doing it better podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Hearing some rumors multiple pods at East River Trading and Vesey Street blew up Friday, so much for those quants (source: a mysterious voice shouting from the last bathroom stall at the Lincoln Center AMC)
The whole movie is basically this Andrew Bird song, and that's great. youtu.be/WIgfHZvo72Q?is=EzuB…
A meditation on truth and memory and identity. Occasionally horrifying.
Given the widespread misunderstandings of corporate credit/yields/borrowing I'm seeing the timeline, seems timely to say...
@RobinWigg 's "A Fabulous Debt" is out now!
Iain Dunning retweeted
Scaling compute across global sites requires precise, process-level network attribution.
In our latest post, Eric breaks down how we combined Linux eBPF kernel tracing, service logs, and hardware counters to map every byte back to the right workflow.
Read on HRT Beat: hudsonrivertrading.com/hrtbe…
Some observations on 'autoresearch', in our experience:
1) 'make this thing faster': work wells.
2) 'improve this frontier training run' deeply unimpressive.
3) 'i want to catch up to near frontier' works fine.
(2) is obviously the dream, basically = RSI. We don't have that yet, clearly.
(1) can at times be (2), although generally its not been for us, so it works (for code not at frontier already). Plus, 'code' easier than 'research', at least easier to posttrain for, so, I think it follows. I do hate drawing the distinction with sharpness though.
(3) is pretty useful - straight labor substitution, you could do it yourself since its basically running a playbook, but don't have to.
Agents can be helpful for (2) type work too of course, experiment manager on steriods.
I guess the quadrillion dollar question is when we cross the line for (2). I think soon enough, although one can make an argument that RLVR is not a great paradigm to get there (but I wouldn't make a big bet against it being enough).
"Not all data is equally valuable" - often yapped about, but Datology have done the work to quantify that and put it into in practice
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Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk.
• 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active.
It is the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks.
• State-of-the-art on critical workloads, including cyber defense, manufacturing and finance and it surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding.
• Forged in Europe end-to-end and is deployable from Europe via our own Mistral Cloud infrastructure.
• Available to all via API today. Working with cybersecurity partners privately.
Open weights release end of October.
Iain Dunning retweeted
10 years ago, as an intern i taught hrt execs how to use snapchat, and now their quarterly revenue is bigger than snap’s market cap
current interns take note. if you want your company to do 2 trillion in quarterly revenue teach the execs to use muse
I'm not going to defend The Smith as a culinary experience, but, I will say, there is something to experiencing the chaos and loudness and sheer throughput of The Smith Lincoln Center at noon on a Sunday.
That's a lot of powered land!
I'd be interested in a mere 50-200MW if it had permits/no weird gotchas/no tax traps/North America. Seems hard to hit all these when you actually do the DD. But, we're a well-capitalized buyer if you've got it!
Watching Beach House and the Strokes* playing in Flushing Meadows while the planes fly low on approach to La Guardia...
Man, this city.
* And special guests!
Getting sad turning down all the mitzvah opportunities in the last 24 hours... Would it really be so wrong to say "yes", just one time?
My wife has written a 'speculative fiction' novel, printed a few copies, feedback from friends & family has been great. We don't really know what to do next - I'd love a pro to edit it and publish, even if didn't make a cent. Any ideas how to make that happen?
Announcing the 2nd iteration of our PhD Winter Internship, for Jan 2027. 1st iteration this year was a big success - PhDs from variety of disciplines got to have a taste of working at HRT, then return later for summer internships and/or full time work.
hudsonrivertrading.com/hrt-j…
