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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
To my knowledge, RenTec aren't market makers, they supposedly run directional bets. It is highly unlikely to do that with their size of funds ($130B) for that long (>20 years) with that success rate (>60% p.a.)
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
I'm not saying that they make money because of Physics Ph.D.s. I'm saying it would be kind of useless to hire those specific people only to end up doing insider trades the whole time.
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
They mostly hire Physics Ph.D.s in the same close range of fields. As much as I find the insider trading narrative to be more plausible than any secret sauce, I think their hiring speaks against that.
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
PSA: The author of this post also runs a niche YouTube channel that is notoriously under-subscribed. For everyone interested in retro tech & technical infrastructure in the real world, go head over here: https://www.youtube.c
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
I think what these types of contracts show is that companies at Microsoft's level don't give a sh*t about national or over-regional regulation. They will use your data, and while you're busy reading 100s of pages of mumbo-jum
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
While I agree that a computer scientist should be able to pick up any language with a bit of training, to be effective in using it, it takes – sometimes – years of continued use. That's a steep investment for any company/lab.
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
> But if you add a $40/yr tier, 80% (800) of your clients would still only spend $10, earning you $8000. But the remaining 20% (200)will buy that $40 package instead of $10. This generates an extra $6000. By creating this second pac
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
I don't know why this comment got downvoted, I find this to be an important discussion. The solution can't be to kill old people, or to reduce the population in any way, but to bring cost down on other fronts. The follow-up questi
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
People parrot this, but do they? Or is it just the case that they are one of the largest ETF issuers in the world, and it is through those vehicles that they are “invested”?
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
73.6% of all statistics are made up
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
Lol, this isn't a story about parking lot apps, guys! It is about how our industry (software) turn everything into shit.
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
It sure is. For anyone looking into Compilers and just starting out, I recommend this book: https://keleshev.com/compiling-to-assembly-from-scratch/ The author uses a TypeScript subset to write a compiler to 32bit ARM
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
If cloud compute is an “Xbox vs. PlayStation” or “iPhone vs. Samsung” type of situation, you are obviously not the type of customer that GCP even tries to attract. Cloud is for big computational needs that can't be covered by Linde or
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
LLMs are non-deterministic. There is a certain randomness at play. So no, that 'skill' (however you even measure that) is useless, as any person with a bit of luck, could get better output.
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
> “She has better politics than anyone else who’s that rich, and she’s better at fund-raising than anyone else with her politics,” Max Berger, who worked on Elizabeth Warren’s Presidential campaign in 2020, told me. Is all you need to kn
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
The article is about shaming her for having some sort of privilege and what she wants to do about it.
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
When I read George's thought on this immediately Alexander Gerko and XTX Markets came to my mind. They operate one of the worlds largest GPU clusters (10k A100) [0]. They aren't really a hedge fund but a prop trading firm, but the
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
I just wished they had product people that worked outside the tech bubble. I need a way to write a letter to multiple people without some scripting magic or third-party add-ons.
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
Jump are market makers, not a hedge fund, that position was $6.5M at peak. Probably part of an options trade. But at this size 100% not an actual investment. Those articles are auto-generated from regulatory filings. Down in that article th
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
In other words, you just ignore the topic.
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
You used the r-word. You come here with claims that go against the status quo and provide zero evidence to support your claims. Just admit it, you don't like gay people. No need for this idiotic 'AIDS is fake' charade.
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
> Along with (hopefully) that french startup (Mistral) founded by the LLaMA guys, the EU is putting together the pieces they need to keep up with AI and maintain their ability to leverage their control mechanisms upon the FAANGS. These n
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
I don't think I've ever seen somebody being convinced by Whataboutism.
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
This makes it even worse, tbh. Just fork the code and tag an release yourself. How are regulated entities just pulling code from third party repos without a sanity check. At some size this has to happen, right?!?
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
You know HN very well if you create an account here to vent about them. You must've read about them here in the past. You've therefore knew about their shortcomings. If it comes to business, you have to make the adult decision ins
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
> What stung before was that people were forced to use Windows because of lock-ins, software compatibility, etc. That doesn’t really exist any more. What? This is very real and a key driver not to use Linux or Mac for millions of users.
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
> [..] to make the most of the Bending Spoons employer brand, which is extremely strong in Europe. What the fuck is Bending Spoons?
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
> it's just often not clear what the location is to prevent personal negotiations. Oh no, we had a bug once when our software uploaded the property to the web with the address unlocked. The place got swarmed by people who would jus
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
I'd say the masterpieces ended after Up in 2009. They started doing sequels after that.
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by dna_polymerase 3y ago
They wield some authority (their respective positions at big AI companies/research centers) in the hot topic of the hour and got a lot of money from the usual VC crowd. I don't think this "deck" shows how talented or wha

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