Ricki Heicklen
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Ricki Heicklen is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between October 28, 2024 and July 14, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Ricki Heicklen is running a quantitative trading bootcamp at Lighthaven”; “featuring Ricki Heicklen, Austin Chen, and others”; “contact Ricki Heicklen or join the Discord”. It most often appears alongside Berkeley, Astralcodexten Com, bulletin board.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: October 28, 2024
- Last seen: July 14, 2025
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- Berkeley (3 shared issues)
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- Astralcodexten Com (2 shared issues)
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- bulletin board (2 shared issues)
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- Discord (2 shared issues)
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- ACX MEETUP (1 shared issues)
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- Aella (1 shared issues)
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- AI 2027 team (1 shared issues)
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- AI Safety, Ethics, and Society (1 shared issues)
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- Alzheimers mouse review post (1 shared issues)
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- amyloid hypothesis (1 shared issues)
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- anti-cavity tooth probiotic (1 shared issues)
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- Arbor Summer Camp (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
2: Another Lighthaven event: Ricki Heicklen is running a quantitative trading bootcamp at Lighthaven (in Berkeley), November 6-10. Prices go up tomorrow from $1350 to $1550, but you can get a $150 discount if you check "ACX Open Thread" for "Where did you hear about this bootcamp?" Register at https://forms.gle/swGLn6jZpfKrN4jN6 . You can read more here or listen to the Patrick McKenzie podcast here. She specifies that “this will not make you rich” and “will not meaningfully boost your resume [to get a job at a] quantitative trading firm”, so I guess it’s aimed at people who . . . just have an abstract passion for learning about quantitative trading and are willing to spend $1000+ to satisfy it? I am as curious as you are whether this is a real demographic; if any of you go, please tell me whether anyone else attended. Meanwhile, I need to learn to say no to advertising Lighthaven events, so I’m committing to no more of them this year unless it’s extra-important.
3: Less Online and Manifest are rationalist blogosphere and prediction market conferences, respectively, held at the same Berkeley venue one week apart in late May / early June. Guests (attending at least one; check which) include me, Eliezer, Zvi, Aella, Nate Silver, and some of the AI 2027 team. Last-minute tickets still available. In between the two is Arbor Summer Camp, a lower-key, longer “experimental learning” event. It includes some trading/startup related classes, featuring Ricki Heicklen, Austin Chen, and others. Check out their startup workshop and startup pitch competition.
Metagame 2025, a game and puzzle design conference that is also itself an immersive megagame, is happening September 12-14 at Lighthaven in Berkeley. Early bird tickets are $500 through July 17th. If you're interested in getting involved, contact Ricki Heicklen or join the Discord.