@someben

systematic long/short equities, ex-BlackRock, co-founded AI startup Something Modern (→ Altos Research), made Hipsteraunt & Quant Fund or Metal Band?

 San Francisco, CA
blog.someben.com/
Joined November 2006
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Goldman prime: from Covid throuhg 2025, stock pickers, quants, and multi-strats never all fell >80bps on the same day. In 2026 it’s happened three times: 4 Feb, 28 Jul, 15 Oct. Yeah umm if they’re all rocked by the same thing, they’re all in the same trade.
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hedgeweek.com/news/hedge-fun…

Hedge funds hit by AI sell-off as Asia-focused managers lead losses

Global hedge funds suffered sharp losses this week as a sell-off in artificial intelligence-related stocks triggered widespread unwinding of positions,…

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moving away from this account to @someben, to match new blog at http://blog.someben.com/

Some Ben?

systematic long/short equities, AI, infovis, hospitality

blog.someben.com
unfortunate confusion between lots of data available, and useful data inference. Nice healthcare contest, though. #data2con
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yup, Colbert doing "Friday" on Fallon with The Roots might be the end of irony. Or the beginning. http://tinyurl.com/3c4uhqw
good riddance Bytemark hosting. It has been seven years of mediocre, overpriced and ideological "service."
Ten years, $100M sales. Pandora founder, CEO, visionary left with 2% of his company at IPO. http://altos.it/hivgDt #perilsofVC
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wow I totally want to see Cowboys & Aliens.
the art is nailed down in our suite in Orlando. And that about sums is up.
am not too jaded to be nonplussed about having wifi & power inflight. En'route to Orlando for a product launch. Anyone in Florida this week?
the #strata "data exhaust" talk by @peteskomoroch is good stuff. Best practices on data scrubbing, thankfully buzzword -light.
O'Reilly's schwag for #strata speakers is Potter's new book on cooking. @tomcoates is right, the keynotes are seriously dopey.
the Code for America open house sorta frantic and totally inspiring. Go team Philly, woot.
my friend Adam Haslett's story in the FT on sentences: http://tinyurl.com/4c77c9t
dear UX "creatives": Stop using minimalist icons instead of proper i18n. You are not Photoshop.
closing my Shittybank UK accounts via telephone was a hilarious ping pong of "you seriously think I'll say that over the phone?!"
speaking on machine learning at Strata next month, at 11:30am on Feb. 3rd in Santa Clara. Contact me for 25% off. http://tinyurl.com/4sxvc4h
at Ames, about to take off in a zeppelin for sunny Bay Area viewing.
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Tom Coates@tomcoates6 Jan 2011
Still sad that Rubicon didn't make the second series cut, and still reveling in the intro for design inspiration: http://bit.ly/a1WxeB
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