Hacker News Reader

The Big Short: "Look at my quant!"

Because of course someone on Wall Street has to ask what a quant is.

The movie is lots of fun though, Ryan Gosling’s character is hilarious.

This guy did come first in that national math competition

Oh well roll out the red carpet; let’s all set aside ourselves aside for this one guy that is good at the language of math.

Grigori Perelman is a better role model.

It’s not hard to dupe the majority into believing BS… see religion.

This math guy is just a guy taking advantage of the notion no one can disprove their divinity.