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Jane Street pays $750K/year for quants who master large deviations...

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Jane Street pays $750K/year for quants who master large deviations and tail bounds.

82-minutes. free. By MIT professor.

"Markov gives us a really bad bound, Chebyshev is pretty reasonable, Chernoff gives us exponential."

here's what they cover:
• Markov vs Chebyshev vs Chernoff bounds
• bounding tail risk for extreme random variables
• why variance alone fails in high-frequency regimes
• exponential 10x tighter risk modeling

Bookmark it & watch today. Then read the article below.
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