==== 2024-05-10 ====
Notes from https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/jim-simons-a-pioneer-of-quantitative-trading-dies-6621d66e?mod=hp_lead_pos7
  * Jim Simons
    * His Chern-Simons theory remains one of the most widely cited math papers of the past century.
    * He developed stomach pains and berated himself for miscues.
    * "Fundamental trading gave me ulcers."
    * In 2010 he resigned as Renaissance’s chief executive, yielding the job to longtime employee and former IBM computer scientist Peter Brown.
    * He retired as chairman in 2021.

  * cornering the market for Maine potatoes
  * Elwyn Berlekamp, who helped lead the firm in the 1980s
  * GOAT - greatest of all time
  * quant firms manage about 1/3rd of all money that is managed