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LLMs Unleashed: The Power of Fine-Tuning(lucaspauker.com)
174 points by lucaspauker 3y ago|90 comments
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by lucaspauker 3y ago
Hi, I’m one of the developers for Terracotta! Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback.
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Show HN: Terracotta – Platform for fine-tuning and evaluating LLMs(terra-cotta.ai)
1 points by lucaspauker 3y ago|1 comments
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50 Practical Applications of Language Models(lucaspauker.com)
3 points by lucaspauker 4y ago|1 comments
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by lucaspauker 4y ago
Here are 50 practical applications of AI that are currently in use or have the potential to be implemented in various industries. Let me know if any of these ideas inspire you or if you build any of them!
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by lucaspauker 5y ago
Yeah good catch
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PDEs you should know(lucaspauker.com)
146 points by lucaspauker 5y ago|94 comments
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Lessons Learned from Restoring a Bike(lucaspauker.com)
1 points by lucaspauker 5y ago|0 comments
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UFO Sightings Visualizer(lucaspauker.ml)
2 points by lucaspauker 6y ago|0 comments
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U.S. Treasury Futures Delivery Options(lucaspauker.ml)
1 points by lucaspauker 6y ago|0 comments
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US Treasury Futures Delivery Options(lucaspauker.ml)
1 points by lucaspauker 6y ago|0 comments
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by lucaspauker 6y ago
Thanks, it looks like you're right. Exchanges care about UTC(NIST), which is calibrated using a variety of clocks. NIST-F1 is specifically run and calibrated for a few weeks a couple times a year, which is intermittent. From https:&#x
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by lucaspauker 6y ago
This is arbitrage, not front running. Front running requires not-public information.
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by lucaspauker 6y ago
You're right however this isn't possible with our current understanding of time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime
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by lucaspauker 6y ago
There were still market makers that provided liquidity. Algorithms can just do it faster than people.
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by lucaspauker 6y ago
Most (high frequency) firms pay for server space next to the matching engine. Wire length is standardized so you don't have these problems.
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by lucaspauker 6y ago
The edge is difficult to quantify, so I went with the 300M as a lower bound. IIRC, the company that made this line sold contracts for 300k/month to use it to around 30 companies. Source: Flash Boys book
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by lucaspauker 6y ago
Market makers provide liquidity as a service. HFT firms are market makers: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marketmaker.asp
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by lucaspauker 6y ago
Good point. Here is an in-depth analysis from the NY Fed: https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2015/08/liquid...
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by lucaspauker 6y ago
NIST-F1 is not intermittently operating: https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-re...
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by lucaspauker 6y ago
You're right. The more fine-tuned it becomes, the more you have to consider low-level protocols. This paper https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/jres/121/jres.121.023.pdf suggests with current systems, time
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by lucaspauker 6y ago
Great point. Adding onto this, an example of an auction is debt issuances. Also many exchanges use auctions ( https://www.daytradetheworld.com/wiki/tse/#auction_mechanism... ) during opens and closes. Essentially au
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by lucaspauker 6y ago
>Please help me, what real value does an investment like this yield for the economy as a whole? The argument usually goes like this: HFT firms provide liquidity for the market; they are usually the people on the other side of the trade w
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by lucaspauker 6y ago
Europe regulations are different than US regulations and are more stringent, as pointed out in the article you linked. I focused on US rules for the article on my site.
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by lucaspauker 6y ago
Good catch. It should read 100 million years, not 100 years. Website is updated now.
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Timekeeping in Financial Exchanges(lucaspauker.ml)
183 points by lucaspauker 6y ago|184 comments
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by lucaspauker 6y ago
...point in case
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by lucaspauker 6y ago
I remember not switching over due to having spent years incrementally building up a bashrc. Is there a way to port it over?
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Why Do Musical Scales Have Certain Numbers of Notes?(lucaspauker.ml)
2 points by lucaspauker 6y ago|1 comments
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Why Do Musical Scales Have Certain Numbers of Notes?(lucaspauker.ml)
8 points by lucaspauker 6y ago|1 comments

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