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Rare card · Science
Jim Simons, a Rare card
James Harris Simons was an American hedge fund manager, investor, mathematician, and philanthropist.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 80
- Power
- 159
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 390,000
Power 159 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Jim Simons quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Jim Simons card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was the founder of Renaissance Technologies, a ______ hedge fund based in East Setauket, New York.
Answer
quantitative. He was the founder of Renaissance Technologies, a quantitative hedge fund based in East Setauket, New York. From the Jim Simons article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Petroleum. Petroleum 89 · Slot machine 83 · Jim Simons 79 · Lunar New Year 76 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- At the time of his death, Simons's net worth was estimated to be $31.4 billion, making him the 55th-richest person in the world.
- He was the founder of Renaissance Technologies, a quantitative hedge fund based in East Setauket, New York.
- He and his fund are known to be quantitative investors, using mathematical models and algorithms to make investment gains from market inefficiencies.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Jim Simons article was read about 390,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 80: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Jim Simons
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Jim Simons (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Gleuschk, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
