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ZeroTalent··on Google is winning on every AI front
Right. I thought it was some term like "polishing the IRS" that I had never heard of. Just wanted to make sure :)
ZeroTalent··on Google is winning on every AI front
"Polish IRS" — I never heard that term before. Do you mean the gov revenue service of Poland or something else?
ZeroTalent··on Google is winning on every AI front
This is why we use Gemini and its context window as the architect and Sonnet 3.7 Max for implementation.
ZeroTalent··on Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash
I know 5 AI image-gen apps that are better than photoshop and cost around $10-20/month. For example, ideogram. Photoshop doesn't even come close.
ZeroTalent··on The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now
As mentioned above, journalists with a wide reach should be held to different standards, similar to doctors who are anti-vaxxers, facing massive consequences and an immediate cancellation of their licenses. They are endangering people's lives.

Context matters a lot. It's different if we talk crap at home with our friends vs. broadcasting a message to 10M people.

ZeroTalent··on The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now
I'm baffled it's not called The Iraq Genocide. History is, indeed, written by the winners.
ZeroTalent··on Sleep is essential – researchers are trying to work out why
Date the doctor? :D
ZeroTalent··on The best programmers I know
No, these are documents with no super consistent standards. There are requirements regarding the content of the 13F filing, but not so much about formatting. And they are PDFs, which makes them difficult to parse using traditional scripts.
ZeroTalent··on Claude's Max Plan
People were complaining about rate limits on the $20 plan.

How is $200/month ridiculous for groundbreaking technology?

ZeroTalent··on Claude's Max Plan
and $1,000 on APIs :D
ZeroTalent··on The best programmers I know
This is why I love LLMS. I drop 200, 100+ page 13F filing reports into Gemini, and after 10 minutes, it finds anomalies for me. This was impossible before, as these reports are not standardized at all.
ZeroTalent··on A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn
I'm using LLMs to analyze 13F corporate filings, options flow, market news, etc. This was very labor intensive before. Essentially impossible for small companies. A 13F report can have 150 pages or so.

Just eliminating redious things. It's nothing difficult for a human, but we would have to hire a ton of humans and couldn't compete against the big guys then.

I'm not offering an LLM wrapper SaaS for my clients. We are just using this internally.

ZeroTalent··on A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn
This is exactly what I am doing. I started another startup in February 2024. After a year, I crossed $1M in annual profit with three employees. I am not planning to scale humans. Profits are growing, and we don't need to hire more people. LLMs and scripting automation are doing the work of approx. 20-30 people — this wasn't possible before.
ZeroTalent··on Capitol Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians
yes. They are called put options. (simplifying)

explained here: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/putoption.asp

ZeroTalent··on Gumroad’s source is available
I would say the risk of a lawsuit is infinitessimal.
ZeroTalent··on Capitol Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians
Politically this is useful, but if you want to use it for trading this is, unfortunately, useless, as they have 90 days before they have to report a trade. IIRC.

Also, if you look at congresspeople's gains, on average, they are not that great.

ZeroTalent··on Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market
That's the point of hedge funds.

They can't all make profit in a bear market. But some will. All are still making profits on fees.

Literally, please ask ChatGPT this: "please explain to my friend why very rich people use several hedge funds that are underperforming SPY"

And, of course, all hedge funds would like to be profitable all the time, but that's not a reason why people invest in them.

Some people invest in hedge funds that only buy whiskey, tequila, and cigars.

ZeroTalent··on Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source
Thank you!
ZeroTalent··on Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market
Please reread my comment, slowly.

And perhaps Google about hedge funds a bit to understand how they make money. Of course most are down now...

The whole point is not all hedge funds are supposed to outperform SPY, hence the name "hedge." They make money on fees.

ZeroTalent··on Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source
Can you name some?
ZeroTalent··on Why does Britain feel so poor?
The criteria for defining extreme poverty are not being adjusted properly.

For example, Grab/Uber rickshaw/tuk-tuk drivers in India may technically earn over $10 a day, but many of them remain homeless because the price of food and rent has risen, and they often support a lot of their family members who have no jobs.

They often sleep on their rickshaws and work more than 20 hours a day, seven days a week, relying on excessive amounts of caffeine and other substances to keep going.

Many of them sleep on their motorcycles or near them on the sidewalk.

ZeroTalent··on Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source
Maybe they bought SPY calls yesterday
ZeroTalent··on Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market
The opposite is true.

We hedge our bets (hence the name hedge funds) so that in market downturns, we use the profits from these weird investments that hit the green without liquidating the typical stocks. We use that money to buy the dips on regular stocks, failing businesses, and cheap real estate. Then, the market rebounds, and we still have our SPX without taking losses. You only get richer once you hit approximately $20M net worth and understand this.

Institutional investors love recessions. At my trade desk firm in Chicago (CBOE) during Covid we were each making the firm like $300k/hour scalping retails with a 20% cut.

ZeroTalent··on Why does Britain feel so poor?
boring and depressing if you have any self-awareness. yet India announced they eliminated all poverty recently. I've visited in the last months. It's still the dystopia that it always was.
ZeroTalent··on Gumroad is now open source
Use the source as inspiration and create something new in a more modern language/framework.
ZeroTalent··on Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365
I rest my case.
ZeroTalent··on AI 2027
People who are skilled fiction writers might lack technical expertise. In my opinion, this is simply an interesting piece of science fiction.
ZeroTalent··on The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly
Right. There is 1 good thing about Steam (it can be summarized to the point of openness), and the rest is evil. I don't get the article.

They have no morals with how they make money. No morals in politics. They are running a monopoly with a 30% cut.

How is that a "do no evil" company? Because you can install an app from Epic? Give me a break...

ZeroTalent··on Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365
I feel their Linux version is inferior to other OS versions :(
ZeroTalent··on 'A hostile state': Why some travellers are avoiding the US
What's good about living in China? Aren't the cities huge, unwalkable, polluted? Asking in good faith. I've never visited, but spent a lot of time in Bangkok and that was a dystopian nightmare to me. I'm assuming Chinese cities are similar?

+ what about the gov? I have a lot of friends who emigrated from China and they are complaining a lot about freedoms, social welfare, and work life balance back home.

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