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nojito
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3mo ago
The best way to parse pdfs is to convert them to images and feed them into the llm. This workflow is highly optimized.
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3mo ago
>It creates perverse incentives. It also helped vault America into being the wealthiest country in the world.
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3mo ago
The biggest misconception that people have when modeling using tabular data is that more data = better model.
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3mo ago
I'd argue now is the perfect time because of the growth of agentic programming.
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4mo ago
You're over inflating the S which is expected to increase as now they are "going to market" G&A is within expectations. Revenue is still growing faster than costs and gross margins have continued to improve. The real ques
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4mo ago
All models almost certainly can’t do that.
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4mo ago
>There are many other ways to determine where schools and hospitals are needed, such as aggregate enrollment and admission statistics. You do realize there are places where there aren't schools or hospitals?
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4mo ago
>And as others have pointed out, other departments and agencies (such as the IRS) have most of the rest of the data required to make policy decisions. There are laws in place forbidding government agencies from merging together datasets.
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4mo ago
No distillation. Comparing it to DeepSeek or GLM doesn't make much sense.
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5mo ago
Not in the US.
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5mo ago
>And by your argument poker or backgammon would not be gambling either. They aren't. A sportsbook explicitly sets lines and you are betting that the line they set is incorrect.
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5mo ago
>Kalshi and Polymarket are mainly just sportsbooks. How? They sell contracts between two users. One side each. Completely different from a sportsbook where users are betting that the lines they set are not correct.
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5mo ago
A different entity provides liquidity. There’s no house like in sportsbooks.
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5mo ago
Just like other exchanges. They charge trading fees.
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5mo ago
Not exactly. Kalshi is binary options. Not stocks.
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5mo ago
There’s no “house” or “book” aspect to Kalshi. They are nothing more than contracts that are bought and sold between individuals.
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5mo ago
Pages 3-6
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5mo ago
This doesn't say what you think it does. Language like elixir were given easier problems to solve when compared to other languages.
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6mo ago
It makes enterprise deployments much easier because most orgs already have github enterprise.
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6mo ago
It seems to be for sql users who don’t know python or r.
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6mo ago
Highly suggest leveraging adbc. I would love to use this against our bigquery tables.
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6mo ago
The markets I participate in tend to be illiquid, but as prediction markets get more popular things are getting better on that front.
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6mo ago
Correct and the higher brackets above 2.5m were at 50-70 cents each.
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6mo ago
Not true at all. A great example was this market from the most recent primary election. https://kalshi.com/markets/kxtxsenatedemturnout/voter-turnou... Based on just simple math there was basically no chance of tu
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>Why would any non-insider participate in these markets? Because they are grossly mis-priced for anyone mildly informed.
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>Prediction Markets require insider trading to function. And yet there are folks like me who have been on them for years before kalshi/polymarket making a very good side income from them without having insider knowledge. Prediction
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6mo ago
>they don't scale Hard disagree. There are many more websites with paywalls that still exist today vs the ones that relied on ads or donations to survive. >they break the promise of an open web The open web was never a thing beca
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6mo ago
Why is it sad for people to be compensated for their work?
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>Gas Town shipping something in public that can be evaluated without all of this surrounding hype and blogposting? I am very confident in saying that most individuals successfully using multiple agents have done so by building their own
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6mo ago
>There is a subset of people that spend time developing complex setups as a hobby. More than a hobby. There's entire businesses that are just moving from one system to another and convincing your followers that they have to move too
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