outside of like, military/geopolitics type secrets, secret knowledge is rarely ever some missing data point that nobody else has access to. it’s almost always “merely” a different frame of reference, which is typically available in plain sight, publicly accessible to all
the running joke about {one of the best hedge funds} is that while the entire market was running around trying to figure out what nobel economic indicators they had discovered ... they actually just realized that undergrad level n-dim DSP is a meaningful frame for many problems
