@zachwill

Director of Data Science for the Portland Trail Blazers. Several of my projects are on GitHub.

Zillow

Zillow made the same mistake that every new quant trader makes early on: Mistaking an adversarial environment for a random one.

The real answer isn’t “bad luck”. It’s that, despite what your models say, the market isn’t random thermodynamic noise. The market is an ecosystem — one where everything is trying to kill you all the time.

Doug Colkitt