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by maxilevi 3y ago
What did you think about the Fountainhead?
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by maxilevi 3y ago
The rise and fall of the third reich. Nazi Germany history tends to be looked from a far and trivialized, with phrases like "oh he attacked russia in the winter, what a dumbass", "it was another totalitarian government that g
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by maxilevi 3y ago
Yes, there are definitely better resources out there. This is just a WIP I had that I thought I’d share.
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CUDA Accelerated Raytracer(github.com)
68 points by maxilevi 3y ago|19 comments
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by maxilevi 3y ago
Do a masters in the US
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by maxilevi 3y ago
Sure, but I doubt your average tradesman starting a business is targeting billion dollar markets. Scaling software to the same level of revenue as a trade business is as easy if not easier. For one you don’t need that many employees
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by maxilevi 3y ago
Starting a software business as a SWE requires almost no investment
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by maxilevi 3y ago
I agree but he wasn't talking about predicting financial markets, he was talking about global implications in industries like law and finance. And LLMs as a knowledge retrieval mechanism can already be pretty useful in those areas.
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by maxilevi 3y ago
No, but I bet his quants backtest trading strategies. His argument for dismissing LLMs is nonsensical, just because something uses information from the past doesn't mean its useless. In fact, every tool we have can match that criticism
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by maxilevi 3y ago
> “Here’s the problem with large language models: they are built on the past, everything we do is about the future,” Griffin said. So Ken sees books and backtesting trading strats as useless too? I really expected more knowledgeable answ
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by maxilevi 3y ago
I agree
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by maxilevi 3y ago
I agree with the spirit but saying that open source is on track to outpace OpenAI in innovation is just not true. Open source models are being compared to GPT3.5, none yet even get close to GPT4 quality and they finished that last year.
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by maxilevi 3y ago
Can you share any revenue numbers?
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by maxilevi 3y ago
Did you try TensorRT?
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by maxilevi 3y ago
Whole company, its a very interesting approach.
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by maxilevi 3y ago
Curious, how profitable are you doing this? Could you share some revenue numbers?
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Ex-‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli Now Living in Queens on $2,500 a Month(bloomberg.com)
3 points by maxilevi 3y ago|3 comments
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by maxilevi 3y ago
Yes, that would make the most sense, but why funds buy it? Are they really that oblivious?
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by maxilevi 3y ago
I don’t believe it’s as simple as the articles puts it. How is the alpha in this strats not exhausted? Either they don’t make money or it’s not fully transparent.
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by maxilevi 3y ago
Hopefully this will lead to the closing of the Argentine central bank. Or at least a reform that lobotimizes it. Continuously inflating the money supply kills an economy and slowly destroys its society.
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by maxilevi 3y ago
The libritts file has 900 plus speakers inside it
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by maxilevi 3y ago
How many HR employees do you realistically need for a company that is downsizing?
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by maxilevi 3y ago
That's not completely true. Information asymmetry is a thing after all
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by maxilevi 3y ago
Did you try it and couldn't find any boosts in productivity?
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by maxilevi 3y ago
I sell software products I develop. Like another commenter wrote, you end up building what the market needs and not necessarily what you find interesting. It's also tough mentally, you could wake up and your revenue is cut in half, a n
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by maxilevi 3y ago
Number #3 economy is Japan but it has less than half the billionaires. Germany's economy is 20% bigger than UK's but has more than triple the amount of billionaires. It's not necessarily correlated with GDP.
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by maxilevi 3y ago
Unrelated but why does Germany have much more billionaires than the rest of the EU?
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by maxilevi 3y ago
https://archive.is/8aqVH
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by maxilevi 3y ago
My take is that with AI productivity will increase significantly and reduce the price of developing software. However this will only up the bar as now that software is easier to make more people want higher quality customized solutions, the
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by maxilevi 3y ago
We ended feudalism only to get back to a stronger version of it powered by tech

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