Allybag

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by Allybag 18d ago
Seems like the 90% faster case is opening the same exact file every single time, which seems like a not super standard use case that will benefit the most from this caching. On an example where you never open the same file twice this will p
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by Allybag 2mo ago
The author is mentioned at the bottom of the article: “This article was written by Thariq Shihipar, member of technical staff, Anthropic.”
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by Allybag 4mo ago
Well, it might be a good decision but I think the possibility of Standard and Poor one day being worth trillions of dollars more than if they had included three companies a year or two earlier than when they inevitably join the index is abs
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by Allybag 6mo ago
What about playing chess on a computer?
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by Allybag 7mo ago
Well how many side projects did you ship last year? I’ve written small programs in the last few months over a weekend that would have taken me a month to do a couple years ago, and they’re better. Not in terms of code quality, but in terms
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by Allybag 2y ago
If you mean as a percentage of my investment, it’s about 1000%, but I can’t scale up further, so it doesn’t grow exponentially. If I increased my stake tenfold I wouldn’t be making more bets or more money. It’s like with market makers or Re
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by Allybag 2y ago
Yep, atm exclusively on Betfair but trying to expand.
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by Allybag 2y ago
To give some details, the main betting exchange I use is Betfair, a UK betting company part of the same group that own Fanduel, and I place bets for or against outcomes in the last half an hour before the start. For example, you can back a
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by Allybag 2y ago
It’s automated, I bet on a betting exchange which has an API, so the bets get placed without any input from me. As it’s a betting exchange they don’t care if you win or lose as you aren’t winning money from them, but they start to take stee
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by Allybag 2y ago
I am a professional automated sports gambler, and I win basically every day, and the handful of losing days I have per quarter are significantly smaller than the average daily win. If you place enough bets (I make about 15k bets each day th
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by Allybag 2y ago
I think “regular users” are very unlikely to use any sort of external drive, other than maybe some sort of cloud service.
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by Allybag 3y ago
Ah, indeed, sorry about that. I’d missed that part and just remembered him saying they were similar.
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by Allybag 3y ago
That’s not really a fair nit at all, he just commented that the two formats were similar, one of them must necessarily have come before the other, but they both exist right now.
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by Allybag 3y ago
You could respond a little less aggressively. This guy isn’t writing a thesis, he’s posting an internet comment.