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by energy123 3mo ago
A lesson learned would be a commitment to quantify the allowed risk as a proportion of VaR or some equivalent approach that holds his fund to account as an investment mandate. Or a promise that he will do something like this in the coming w
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by energy123 3mo ago
The distinction is mathematician vs mathematics. Mathematics is going to reach new heights beyond the wildest dreams of contemporary mathematicians. But perhaps without the participation of many paid mathematicians.
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by energy123 3mo ago
The old way of establishing career credibility is being destroyed, for better or worse. Accomplishments that used to be career-defining are hard to distinguish from AI, and correlate more with access to compute. Think about Bill Gates'
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by energy123 3mo ago
The individual vs community dichotomy is a can of worms. The proponents of these terms often misunderstand each other. The "individual" is short-hand for negative freedoms, and from this you can derive many of the same values as t
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by energy123 3mo ago
The cause and effect don't make sense because Citadel putting out such an opinion moves the entire market by only a few basis points which barely impacts what you're saying they're trying to impact. It's one of those nar
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by energy123 3mo ago
He played his cards well given the incentives. Most investors wouldn't tolerate such recklessness, and accordingly, most funds have to operate under strict risk management or they don't get funded. PMs at multi managers are only a
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by energy123 3mo ago
That's a meme conspiracy theory on twitter that nobody in the industry takes seriously.
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by energy123 3mo ago
There's also a cost graph on the same page and the context of this conversation is cost vs performance frontier.
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by energy123 3mo ago
This has already been updated with the new prices?
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by energy123 3mo ago
If it's code for a pacemaker, it should be reviewed by multiple humans. If it's code for an unimportant side project, I will never read it. Between those extremes are shades of grey. Part of our job in this new era is to understan
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by energy123 3mo ago
It's fast, legible, dense and ad-free. Can't get any better than this.
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by energy123 3mo ago
The workplace is one of the best places to find your spouse. It's where you spend most of your time and where you're most likely to meet someone with similar interests to you in the same location. It's anti-human to treat the
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by energy123 3mo ago
HR justifying their own bloat. The staff and shareholders pay the price. Agency conflict of interest. The fault is with the CEO for not getting HR in line.
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by energy123 3mo ago
Gross margins are insanely important, possibly the most important single metric if for some reason you were forced to choose one.
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by energy123 3mo ago
People need to learn what compound words are.
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by energy123 3mo ago
There's been zero sorties over Iran in the last two months because the war aims in the current round of fighting are narrowly scoped to Hormuz. That's not a commentary on the capability of the F-35. You mention MANPADs as if it is
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by energy123 3mo ago
I can provide explanations for these observations. Russia and Ukraine is like this because they lack F-35s. This is what an air parity war looks like. Air parity wars are qualitatively different phenomena, and should not be conceptually clu
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by energy123 3mo ago
It's a boon for low income people in low income countries. Some random facts: - They avoid doctors because it's expensive and they don't want to burden their families. - There aren't enough doctors, regardless of social
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by energy123 3mo ago
Radiology is probably an edge case, due to needing the right inductive bias and training data that general purpose multimodal language models may lack. At least until someone creates RadiologyBench and provides an incentive to the labs to m
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by energy123 3mo ago
F-16s are reusable missile trucks. F-35s are reusable missile trucks with a smaller capacity but with stealth and better telemetry. Reusability is just common sense economics. A JDAM costs only $30k USD.
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by energy123 3mo ago
Jacob Tsimerman believes that AI will be better than human mathematicians within 2 years. We should not be surprised if AI solves the Millenium problems very soon and advances to a level that is barely comprehensible, or even incomprehensib
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Sometimes Being First Means Seeing the End Before Anyone Else(quantamagazine.org)
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by energy123 3mo ago
The way to cause effective local change among people you know is to build meaningful relationships with psychological safety. They will figure out your political opinions with time, and they will be more subtly but durably influenced. Jammi
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by energy123 3mo ago
That's how the paperclip hypothetical works. The paperclip factory has a job to make paperclips and that's exactly what it does.
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by energy123 3mo ago
If it was that short sighted it wouldn't be maximally smart. It should disclose them to convince the humans nothing is wrong and to keep improving it.
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by energy123 3mo ago
The problem is the negative feedback between crime (and crime visibility through media), and the acceptance of surveillance in order to stop crime. People really don't like public safety crime. Not only will they vote for surveillanc
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by energy123 3mo ago
None of my use cases require frontier capabilities but I still pay $200/month to a frontier lab. I value the additional time saved at more than $200/month. If I had to pay actual API rates, then I'm not sure what I would do,
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by energy123 3mo ago
It's the same reason Meta open sourced Llama and AMD open sourced FSR. When you're behind it is a prudent strategy because it undermines investment in the private frontier. Once you're on top you pull the rug and go closed so
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by energy123 3mo ago
pow(n,m) where n is alphabet size and m is number of characters is very dense.
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by energy123 3mo ago
GPT 5.6 Pro one shot a perfect score to the new IMO today and nobody cares. We are in the end game.

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