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Computer Use Agents Are Excellent QA Engineers(tristanrhodes.com)
3 points by partypete 22d ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Engroles.com – Verified, Active SWE Listings from Recruiters(engroles.com)
2 points by partypete 8mo ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Mathematics Version of "The Missing Semester of Your CS Education?"
3 points by partypete 11mo ago|0 comments
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by partypete 1y ago
The idea that a home loan is risk-free ignores decades of recent history. A quick google search for "2008 GFC" will bring you up to speed. Given that home loans are not, in fact, risk-free, how do you expect anyone to risk the lar
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by partypete 2y ago
I think this is an excellent way to think about LLM's and any other software-augmented task. Appreciate you putting the time into an article. I do think your points supported by the graph of training steps vs. response length could be
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by partypete 2y ago
Author here. I just used a free pdf version of the book and the legacy software package which they link to on the website. Great experience. The authors have since created a self-contained web IDE version of the book/course, but if you
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The Joy of Nand2Tetris(tristanrhodes.com)
161 points by partypete 2y ago|41 comments
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by partypete 2y ago
Keep in mind that the actual profit if the bot were not randomly choosing between each model version would be about 600k/hour. You're conflating the experimental profit, wherein each model only has access to 1/3 of the potent
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by partypete 2y ago
That’s right - I retrained the model every 7 days. These experiment results are from the most recent one-week period.
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by partypete 2y ago
The training data is composed of the bot’s previously executed trades from the last 63 days joined on the price/volume data. So the model discovers patterns in the price/volume data that have historically lead to well-performing t
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Adventures in algorithmic trading on the Runescape Grand Exchange(tristanrhodes.com)
186 points by partypete 2y ago|44 comments
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by partypete 2y ago
For what it’s worth, I am a relatively young engineer who has recently been working very closely with other engineers over the age of 55 on a daily basis. It has been one of the more enriching periods in my career so far. I often wonder if
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by partypete 2y ago
You may be interested in some of the foundational papers exploring game theory models similar to the Ultimatum game[1][2]. These are known as Iterated Prisoner's Dilemmas. --- [1] The Evolution of Cooperation ( https://ee.sta
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by partypete 2y ago
Came here to say this. They only just recently got an AMD GPU on MLPerf thanks to a (different company), Tinycorp by George Hotz. I guess basic ML performance is too hard a problem.