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Key Takeaways: 5 Favorite Insights from 2023

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Dec 18, 2023
Insights by Two Sigma
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"We love to solve hard problems." The phrase has long been something of a mantra at Two Sigma, because it happens to be true. And as we busy ourselves tackling thorny research and engineering challenges, we love to share what we've learned along the way.  We learned a lot in 2023; in this article we look back at five of the Two Sigma Insights posts that sparked our—and our readers'—curiosity the most.

Two Sigma Open is a series of internal events where our software engineers contribute fixes to open source projects, sharpen their skills, and build connections with the broader OSS community.

An overview of some of the ways Two Sigma supports the growth and development of our engineers, helping them to cultivate their ability to think about hard problems in novel ways and apply fresh approaches to solving them.

Systematic and discretionary macro funds have had similar risk-adjusted returns on average, and intuitively have different relative advantages. This analysis demonstrates that over the past ~15 years, a blend of the two delivered a higher Sharpe ratio than either approach alone.

Two Sigma engineers and product managers explain how semantic types can help bring clarity to your meta-data strategy.

Two Sigma's Architecture Month program is designed to help the company’s software engineers move beyond simply writing algorithms, to thinking about designing systems—while having some fun along the way.

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architecture / discretionary macro / open source / semantic types / software engineering / systematic macro

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