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by bormaj 2y ago
HFTs/market makers are competing for pennies on the dollar. They do not hold risk (long term), they exist to readily provide liquidity to your buy/sell orders. HFTs can be quite profitable, but that doesn't make them inherent
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by bormaj 2y ago
Any specific pitfalls to avoid with K8s? I've used it to some degree of success in a production environment, but I keep deployments relatively simple.
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by bormaj 2y ago
As someone else in the industry, is it fair to categorize all HFs this way?
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by bormaj 2y ago
I think it's fair to say that the context in which a work was created adds to the novelty and ingenuity of it's existence. These works don't exist in a vacuum and there's certainly a difference between a symphony created
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by bormaj 2y ago
> And to be clear, nobody learned the lesson. This is not true. The mortgage lending pipeline is quite different today compared to pre-GFC. There is considerably more due diligence required by lenders and banks in order to back loans. Co
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by bormaj 2y ago
The buyer of that pool of loans will be an institutional investor with an allocation for that kind of risk. Depending on the state of the market, the pool might be sold at a discount or a premium which may attract/deter certain investo
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by bormaj 2y ago
Any reading recommendations for exploring this further?
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by bormaj 2y ago
Anyone selling the retail investor an "edge" via ML platforms or AI is selling snake oil. Sure the barrier to entry is low, but profits are never guaranteed.
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by bormaj 2y ago
> Final note, inflation helps encourage people to use their money and keep the economy moving. That also means that costs are increasing, which may have the opposite effect
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by bormaj 2y ago
I think the parent comment here is referring to the quality of education relative to the immigrants' countries of origin.
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by bormaj 2y ago
There is an argument that elections can be understood as a referendum on the previous 4 years. E.g. voting for the incumbent candidate/party means more of the same.
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by bormaj 2y ago
That VP comp number seems quite low fwiw
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by bormaj 2y ago
The P is silent
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by bormaj 2y ago
Convicted felons cannot legally run for office
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by bormaj 2y ago
To add to openrisk's comment, classical statistics doesn't formally define or attempt to tackle causality. Regressions and the like only describe associations between variables. For a statement regarding causality to hold, you nee
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by bormaj 2y ago
Emphasis on _advertising in its current form_, I think it's a valuable means to be able to a). monetize something and b). to spread awareness. But I agree with GP that as a society we're allowing companies to grossly over-engineer
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by bormaj 2y ago
I think it's reasonable to carryover retail investor protections to the gambling world. One market has much more history in taking advantage of the average Joe and as a result there are many sensible protections in place. If you can&#x
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by bormaj 2y ago
Are there any attempts to address this at the package management level (not a cargo-specific question)? My first thought is that the package could declare in its config file the "scope" of access that it needs, but even then I&#x2
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by bormaj 2y ago
Can't read the article because of the paywall, so this may/not be related... Is it fair to say that the real liability here is a dataset mapping protein/molecule structures to outcomes/effects? Hypothetically the govt co
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by bormaj 2y ago
> People use python because everybody else uses python. That's it. It's not particularly good at anything it does. But it will get the job done and I can do it. But that just isn't good enough for me. It's the visual
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by bormaj 2y ago
I have no qualms with the OPs comment other than the same criticisms I highlighted could be applied to just about any other language in a similarly vague context. So what justice do those criticisms do if we're not being specific about
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by bormaj 2y ago
> The interpreter is not that fast, the language is not that expressive, what passes for package management is a bad joke, etc. I can work with it but I'm not necessarily loving it. These are rather disingenuous criticisms of python
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by bormaj 2y ago
They may have been referring to (for example) reported financial results or news events which are more infrequent/rare but may have outsized impact on market prices.
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by bormaj 2y ago
Reading through Betterment's disclosure acknowledges the scenarios for potential loss. While the deposits are stored through their program banks, you're guaranteed up to $2mm in FDIC insurance. So if those banks go under, your mon
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by bormaj 2y ago
Are you a professional in the field or is this your side project? The quantitative trading posts on here typically just scratch the surface, but I have to say that I'm impressed with this one. Thanks for sharing!
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by bormaj 2y ago
Isn't there a query option to disable/configure log writes for cases like this?
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by bormaj 2y ago
Humility has to go both ways then, we can't claim that LLM models are actually (or not actually) AI without qualifying that term first.
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by bormaj 2y ago
As someone who started learning to code with C++ followed by Python and then Rust, proper threading approaches weren't drilled into my head until I started working with Rust. I agree with you that threading with message passing is a sa
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by bormaj 2y ago
You might find the Kelly Criterion interesting and/or useful for optimal bet sizing. This rabbit hole goes deeeep https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
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by bormaj 2y ago
I would supplement this by suggesting `pydantic` models instead of `TypedDict`s. This library has become a core utility for me as it greatly improves the developer experience with typing/validation/serialization support.

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