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We are a financial sciences company. We combine rigorous inquiry, data analysis, and invention to solve the toughest challenges across financial services.

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6 years
Think you can build an algorithm that predicts movements in stock prices using news analytics data? We just launched a @kaggle competition - partnering with @thomsonreuters and @intrinio - with $100,000 in prizes. Come compete:
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Spark’s Vectorized UDFs feature helps improve the performance and usability of user-defined functions in Python. Learn more:
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A new Two Sigma research paper examines proposed methods for estimating the Sharpe ratio, computing confidence intervals around a point estimation of it, and more.
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We 💙 building things, so there was no better way to celebrate National LEGO Day than to get together and build a large-scale Two Sigma logo. Now, we're donating all the LEGOs that we used to our friends @firstlegoleague ! 🎉 #thatssoTwoSigma @LEGO_Group #HappyBirthdayBrick
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"The way to make magic real is through science. I learned I can make the impossible possible — I just have to come up with the right algorithm." Thank you @jessomatt of @upowerco for stopping by our office for an inspiring and empowering fireside chat with @skamille 👏
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We are proud to sponsor the leading international machine learning conference, @icmlconf . If you're attending, please visit us at booth B05:20. We look forward to meeting you.
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5 years
NEW: We examine whether the rise in stock buybacks has artificially propped up equity prices, suppressed market volatility, and weakened corporate balance sheets.
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Stephen Hawking helped bring scientific curiosity to the masses through his unrelenting passion and dedication to the pursuit of knowledge. His legacy lives on and will continue to inspire the scientist in all of us.
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How will machine learning affect database management systems, and vice versa? In an interview with #TwoSigma , @CarnegieMellon ’s Professor @andy_pavlo offers his views on this and more.
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Today we launched @venntwosigma , a cloud-based investment analysis software. Now institutional investors and wealth managers can gain access to this powerful risk tool - sign up for free:
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6 years
It's #daylightsavings ! Don't forget to turn your clocks back ⏰ Our offices feature some unique science and math-themed clocks. Can you solve for time on all of them? #thatssoTwoSigma
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Engineers from Two Sigma and @Google collaborated on improving BigQuery support in Ibis, a flexible Python interface for composing SQL queries. Read more about it here:
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Speaking at the 2019 Milken Institute Global Conference, Two Sigma co-chair David Siegel joined Sinovation Ventures' @kaifulee and Bloomberg's @joelwebershow to discuss the challenges and opportunities AI offers for individuals, companies, and societies.
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Predicting the future is hard. So we have to instill in people the desire to continue learning their whole lives. And schools have to be reformed to focus on creativity, which will help people find jobs. – David Siegel with @PreetaTweets #WSJFutureFest
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We built a 24-dimensional model to estimate how similar or different—relatively— today’s market environment is to all other periods going back to 1990.
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We are pleased to announce that @robotsmarts has been named the 2022 Two Sigma Faculty Research Award Recipient, which recognizes those who have made an outstanding impact in STEM research, teaching, mentoring, and/or outreach advancing diversity:
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RT @kaggle "Think the news influences stock movement? @twosigma is challenging Kagglers to prove it in our latest competition: "Using News to Predict Stock Movements" | $100,000 in total prizes are up for grabs! Get started now: "
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Happy #InternationalWomensDay ! We're excited to be hosting a fire-side chat today with @sheeo_world founder, @vickis .
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Repeatability isn't guaranteed in TensorFlow. One of our researchers demonstrates a workaround. #deeplearning
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The VIX is an incomplete gauge of market risk. Learn about additional measures of uncertainty, and how their effects can manifest in different areas of the financial markets.
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Have you heard the news? We've launched a new @kaggle competition with data from @thomsonreuters & @intrinio . We want to know if you can build an algorithm to predict stock movements based on news data. Are you up for the challenge? Join us:
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New: An in-depth survey of the extensive literature on the Sharpe ratio from the Two Sigma Labs team.
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We are proud to sponsor #NeurIPS2018 . For more information on talks, panels, research papers and more, visit:
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3 years
As institutional investors evaluate #cryptocurrency assets, how can they think about properly assessing their risks, especially in the context of a broader, multi-asset class portfolio?
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Turns out humans are incredibly remarkable machines. Empathy, creativity and dexterity are unique human skills and we need to incentivize society to think of ways to use unique human talents. This is a business opportunity. – David Siegel with @PreetaTweets #WSJFutureFest
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Yesterday, we celebrated our most recent class of new hires with a day of talks, trivia, a champagne toast, a lively trivia game, and of course cupcakes. We're so excited to welcome some wonderful new faces to the Two Sigma family!
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Learn about Flint, an open source library Two Sigma developed to enhance Spark’s functionality for time-series analysis.
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. @datanami and #TwoSigma engineering manager David Palaitis talk about the role of data science engineers and the intersection of data science and engineering.
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To celebrate #MoleDay , we combined two of our favorite things: cupcakes and science! Mole Day commemorates Avogadro's Number (6.02 x 10^23), which represents the number of particles in one mole of material!
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Two Sigma's Data Clinic is launching Good with Numbers, a small-format workshop series to help mission-driven orgs learn actionable tips on how to build data strategies & make data more valuable.
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Halloween is in full swing at Two Sigma: check out these creative homemade sweets from our spooky bake-off! Happy Halloween! 🎃👻 #trickortreat #thatssoTwoSigma
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Watch co-founder David Siegel discuss the impact of machine learning—“the story of our time.”
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7 years
Interested in #deeplearning ? Have a look at some of our recent articles on the subject:
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7 years
Our researchers share 25 of their favorite papers, talks, presentations, and workshops from #NIPS2017
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Two Sigma
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Rebels assemble! We're kicking off #StarWarsDay early with a heated trivia session. Do. Or do not. There is no try. #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #lifeatTwoSigma #thatssoTwoSigma
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Check out our new paper on using historical data to quantify the return premia for major asset-class based factors.
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7 years
Check out @twosigma co-founder David Siegel's recent @WSJ piece on investing and the scientific method:
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🌠💡 Headed to #GHC19 next month? Check out our recent Insights post, in which one of our software engineers shares her top tips for making the most of the experience 👉
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6 years
Don’t miss our newest Insights posts on tech, data science, markets, and more—subscribe here:
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Our CTO Alfred chatted with the @FinancialTimes about @HaliteAI , our AI game launching October 16, and our @kaggle competition () running now. Check out the FT interview: .
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7 years
Introducing LinuxBoot: a fast, reliable open-source firmware for Linux servers
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Sign up to receive our latest Insights posts on tech, data science, markets, and more—subscribe here:
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The Strange Loop conference mixes #machinelearning , music, philosophy, art, and more into a wonderful, offbeat "technology stew." Check out our rundown of some of the coolest presentations from this year's event.
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Be sure not to miss our speakers at #NeurIPS2018 . A full schedule of our panels and talks, as well as the research papers, can be found here:
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We are proud to sponsor the 2017 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest @ICPCNews .
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Check out our introduction to the Two Sigma Factor Lens, a framework for better understanding overlapping sources of risk across multiple asset classes.
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8 years
“When you give people time away from their desks to do something creative, a lot of innovation can happen."
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Our interplanetary AI programming challenge @HaliteAI has kicked off its second year. The battle is on - are you in?
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Tutorials, papers, and workshops--oh my! #deeplearning #AI #NIPS2016
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How might US-China trade tensions affect trade-sensitive US stocks? Read our latest commentary here:
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8 years
We’re rethinking how ideas are imagined, built and realized at the new Cornell Tech in New York:
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6 years
Our love of π is infinite! Happy #PiDay 🍴
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Use real-world @RentHop data and get creative in this competition for a chance to land a role @twosigma :
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6 years
Our co-chairman, David Siegel, will be speaking tomorrow with @PreetaTweets at the @WSJ Future of Everything Festival about AI and the meaning of "work." What topics are on your mind about AI and work?
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7 years
Active investment management will only become more scientific as time goes on:
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7 years
Excited to be a part of @BridgeAtCornell dedication today. Stay tuned for more information on our Collision Lab:
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NEW: A Two Sigma engineer shares key lessons learned while building a high-performance metrics system based on customized #opensource building blocks.
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This summer, we held our 17th annual chess tournament. “Chess is an important part of our culture,” said Makoto Nozaki. “This event not only allows us to indulge in our passion for problem solving, but also creates an inclusive environment.” Learn more:
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Missed #ICLR2019 ? Two Sigma researchers share highlights from their trip to one of the “Big 3” machine learning conferences.
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We live in an era of dramatic technological innovation along the lines of the Industrial Revolution.
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Here’s what @tsdataclinic learned about school bullying in NYC from federal and local open datasets.
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ICYMI: Co-Founder David Siegel's discussion on all things #AI and the #futureofwork at @WSJ 's Future of Everything with Deputy Business Editor @PreetaTweets
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In Two Sigma's most recent Insights article, David Siegel discusses the ethical considerations of new technologies with @tristanharris and Stanford's @gewang . Read the full article and watch a replay of the conversation below.
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Two Sigma colleagues share their insights to help support #softwareengineers at various stages of their careers, from interviewing and spearheading projects to making lateral moves and keeping their skills current:
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We are proud to support the @LinuxBootOrg project and congratulate them on their productive @OpenComputePrj hackathon.
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Two Sigma Co-Founder and Co-Chairman David Siegel speaks about the significant potential—and considerable hype—surrounding large language models like GPT-4 and other innovations in #AI . Watch now:
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What is Asia's role in the finance + tech disruption? What elements are helping accelerate this change? Kenny Lam, Two Sigma's head of APAC, will answer these questions at the @MilkenInstitute Asia Summit next week. Read his take via the #PowerofIdeas :
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Our team, including Aditi Chaudhry, is excited to kick off the first day of @AnitaB_org 's Grace Hopper Celebration! Stop by Booth 333 to learn more about what our team is hypercurious about: #GHC23 #earlycareers #diversityintech #WomeninTech
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We're looking forward to partnering with @SigOpt ! Check out their announcement to learn more. 👇
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We are excited to announce @twosigma as a partner, customer and investor. Read on to learn how we are helping to enhance its experimentation and optimization capabilities.
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Every interview at Two Sigma is a bit different because we want your experience to be relevant to you, your background, and the roles we’re considering you for. We’ve compiled our best #interviewtips to help you to prepare and know what to expect:
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We are excited to announce our strategic partnership with leading data engineering platform @cruxinformatics . We'll work with Crux to efficiently clean and on-board data sets, allowing Two Sigma teams to focus on higher order data science work. Learn more:
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It was so much fun to host @ICPCNews competitors at our offices this month. The day was filled with talks from senior leaders, a panel, and even a demo of @HaliteAI ! You can read more about it in their blog post 👇
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On Thursday, November 1st, Two Sigma, a proud sponsor of the North American ICPC regionals, hosted participants from their recent online practice competition at their New York City offices. Read more here:
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May the best bot win.
Internal coding competition at Two Sigma was just opened up to the public. Bacteria-like bots compete for dominance!
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We're proud to sponsor @iclr2019 , one of the fastest growing artificial intelligence conferences. If you're attending #ICLR2019 , seek us out at booth 413.
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We're proud to be sponsoring @papers_we_love #PWLConf this year!
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How can investors quantify the market impact of political, geopolitical, and monetary policy risks? We examine one approach here:
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Experience the power of data science in virtual reality:
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Learn about Two Sigma’s scalable, stable software versioning and release model:
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Interested in pursuing a career in engineering? Two Sigma Platform Engineering Product Manager Lade recently shared four pieces of advice for young professionals. Learn more:
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Following #JSM2018 , Two Sigma researchers highlight some of the most important challenges facing statisticians today.
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Are you in? Build smart bots that battle with the goal of taking over the largest share of a virtual grid.
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We're excited to chat with you TOMORROW from 5-6 PM ET at @kaggle ’s #CareerCon2019 — a digital career fair where we will be discussing all things #machinelearning and #datascience at Two Sigma. Sign up here:
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Learn how TS Data Clinic and the Environmental Defense Fund used oil and gas well inspection data to create a preliminary predictive model for violations.
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NEW: What to make of a low-volatility, low-correlation market? #VIX
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Cook: A fair preemptive resource scheduler for compute clusters:
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Learning to build together, even the old fashioned way, is a key component of our early careers program: NewTS.
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NEW: A practitioner’s guide to how Two Sigma built its cloud network architecture using OpenStack.
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Listen in as Kenny Lam, CEO of Two Sigma Asia Pacific, shares his thoughts on the Asia Pacific outlook at #MIGlobal Asia Summit in Singapore
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Sharing ideas is integral to how we approach hard problems. We collaborate with internal and external experts to publish on a wide variety of topics. Subscribe to get the latest and greatest from Insights:
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In a recent Insights article, we give a brief overview of Engineering Education at Two Sigma: why we offer it, what we teach, and the benefits of our focus on continuous learning.
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Topics discussed at Fed meetings have changed over time -- natural language can quantify how:
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We are proud to mark our 10th year as a sponsor and attendee of @AnitaB_org 's #GHC23 . We look forward to meeting the incredible women and non-binary technologists the conference brings together this week in Orlando! Curious about us? Stop by Booth 333:
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Join Venn and special guest Ricky Siewers of @coinmetrics on Wednesday, November 16th at 11:00am EST to learn more about the new #crypto data that's been integrated into the Venn platform and other product enhancements. Register now:
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Today is the final day to apply for Two Sigma's College Mentor Connect, a 6-week remote #STEM summer mentorship program for rising sophomore college students from historically underrepresented groups. Applications must be submitted by 11:59pm ET tonight:
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8 years
Each year we like to challenge ourselves with a hard, but fun, engineering problem.
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3 years
Last week, we launched our new Real Estate business, a human-led, machine-supported approach to investing in private real estate assets. Our real estate investment professionals will work hand-in-hand with data scientists, engineers, and technologists.
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Weekend reading: @twosigma researchers' overview of the latest #deeplearning and DL-related advances from #NIPS2016
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