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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   3522 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 8, 2026

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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This is simply not true.

Ok they were medium articles when I looked yesterday. But my search doesn't have them show up, here are the links. Full disclosure: I just scanned them.

Medium, Research Paper from 2016, Some open source textbook, The Cellophane paradox from the DuPont court case

You would just give actually interesting arguments instead of name dropping references and getting triggered.

I'm not making claims I am a genius wiz kid with a mega IQ. As Dase puts it: I'm a 120IQ midwit ML engineer. Furthermore my interest in this conversion is quite low to put any serious effort in a field that is outside my expertise.

but it's high enough for a quant finance job

It probably is, but it sounds like quant finance jobs are looking for more than intelligence.

I guess I can't be frank about that here without people getting triggered.

The only thing that triggered anyone here is the sheer autistic arrogance: "The I'm smarter than everyone but can't seem to tie my own shoe laces" mentality. Followed by repeated attempts at trying to flex that and just failing.

Look, my intelligence is not that high, but it's high enough for a quant finance job.

So, are you employed in one? Self-employed in something adjacent to finance, at the very least?

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