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by mempko 7mo ago
Did the people pay for the majority of the tariffs, like 80% percent? But the companies are getting this money? How is this now just a transfer of what I paid to these companies? They just get free money at my expense?
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by mempko 8mo ago
Excuse me for making some pretty sharp statements. Twitter is objectively a worse product now. Musk is a deeply uncreative person who doesn't seem to actually like people and attracts people to him that are the same way. This shows in
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by mempko 8mo ago
If it's true that AI is creating productivity gains (and I think it is), then a company has two options. If every employee is X more productive, then you can either cut people and increase profitability, but sacrifice growth. Or you ca
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by mempko 8mo ago
memory safety isn't really much of a problem with modern C++. We have the range library now for instance. What's nice about modern C++ is you can almost avoid most manual loops and talk at the algorithm level.
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by mempko 8mo ago
I'm pretty sure global warming isn't debunked. Yes, we should worry about all the other pollution too. But global warming is happening and we are causing it. What's different than nature doing it is the rate of change. Yes th
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by mempko 8mo ago
https://manhattanprep.com/gre/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/20...
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by mempko 8mo ago
Except they don't just talk this way with underlings but everyone including their peers.
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by mempko 8mo ago
I've noticed this too when dealing with people with power. If you want to be seen as a peer, you have to stop caring. It's weird but it's definitely in the culture. As someone who learned English as a second language, it&#x27
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by mempko 8mo ago
It's also ironic for a self described "classic liberal" building a company which grows the power of the government instead of limiting it. Alex Karp must have deep cognitive dissonance and likely suffers for it. Palantir itse
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by mempko 8mo ago
Don't forget he also had Sam Altman's phone number. Do you any of you have his number? Also before he did all this he was semi retired for 5 years because of a successful exit. So for anyone thinking they can replicate this ask...
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by mempko 8mo ago
We use Apache Arrow at my company and it's fantastic. The performance is so good. We have terabytes of time-series financial data and use arrow to store it and process it.
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Spicy Takes by Wes McKinney(spicytakes.org)
3 points by mempko 8mo ago|0 comments
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by mempko 8mo ago
We didn't use other LLMs. We built our own models and had a system designed to never leak future information at any given timepoint. Models can only access data the system allowed it at any time point gating future information. This me
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by mempko 8mo ago
I'm curious about something. If this is based on historical datasets, and people build strategies using LLMs, then in theory this is deeply flawed since LLMs would contain the knowledge about some of the datasets, and certainly the pri
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by mempko 8mo ago
One interesting thing from this paper is how big of a LiDaR shadow there is around the waymo car which suggests they rely on cameras for anything close (maybe they have radar too?). Seems LiDaR is only useful for distant objects.
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by mempko 8mo ago
You're right that $566B alone isn't a black swan. That FINRA figure only captures retail and small institutional margin at broker-dealers. It excludes prime brokerage (hedge funds), securities-based lending, and repo markets. Cons
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by mempko 8mo ago
This is a good analysis of the yen carry trade but i'd argue the causality is backwards. Record high margin debt in the U.S. is the root cause as it's a powder keg. The yen is just the fuse being lit. When system-wide leverage is
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by mempko 8mo ago
This article crystallizes something I witnessed firsthand last week. Overheard a guy at a restaurant explaining how he builds phone apps with AI and no coding experience. When asked how he verifies the code works, he said he pastes it into
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by mempko 9mo ago
Am I the only one still looking at different and correcting the AI abiyt design and algorithms so it stays on the path I want, or do you just YOLO at this point?
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by mempko 9mo ago
The reason de-dollarization should be concerning to US citizens and many don't understand is that having the dollar as a reserve currency is a huge asset to the US. The US has control over how many dollars are created and where they ar
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by mempko 9mo ago
If you are serious about this, you know full well the data is out there. So stop asking for it and just go get it, go write some code and process it, then come back here and report your results.
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by mempko 9mo ago
And what will you do with the raw data? Are you trained in processing and interpreting it? How good is your math?
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by mempko 9mo ago
Look at the degrowth movement. There are solutions but nobody, especially the leadership, are going to like them.
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by mempko 9mo ago
Why would the raw data be useful to you? Do you have the skills and training to process and interpret it?
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by mempko 9mo ago
For those not understanding why aerosols dimming the sky is not a solution is it won't stop ocean acidification and obviously just slows down the warming, not stopping it. The thing we need to do is remove CO2 but unfortunately that wi
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by mempko 9mo ago
Read it again.
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by mempko 9mo ago
I have a message to all Palantir employees. You can quit, you don't have to make this technology. Palantir cannot function without you. Let me tell you a story. When I was young, just out of college, I worked for a tech startup. The te
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by mempko 9mo ago
I've talked with Scott Adams. In private he seemed a lot more reasonable than in public. I always wondered how much of his public life was a show, a way to make money. But then the way he dealt with his cancer make me reconsider. Adams
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by mempko 9mo ago
In any period of history, there are people who know things are wrong and are vocal about it. There are artists prior to the Civil Rights Era that were not bigots. The problem you have is the artists that were celebrated AT THAT TIME which w
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Money Is a Technology(blog.mempko.com)
3 points by mempko 9mo ago|0 comments

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