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The problem wasn't the analysis, given it was found out before it happened. The problem was politics, and as usual pushing the system to its limits and beyond.

Having worked in hedge funds for the last decade, this seems to miss the mark. Firstly we often reward skillstacking ie a technical person later becoming a trader. The more one person knows the better. These people are rare though hence the reason there is still many seperate job functions, so a person can specialize. But an AI agent? They all have the same brain, so why nerf them by specialising.

Secondly, browsing reddit for sentiment and doing technical analysis is not even a feature in the trading world. At the most basic level, these are lagging indicators. Something on options IV and premiums would have been closer to the mark.

Hedge funds are akin to the maintenance crew for markets, we keep them efficient and liquid. The process is quite scientific, you come up with a theory and validate with real data. Or you go from data to theory.

Bret Victor is a real visionary in the field, and everyone should check out his website worrydream.com, for his interesting presentations on interactive programming.

Saying that, I can't see how this dynamicland is going to work practically. The requirement first for a shared physical space, in the age of remote working. Secondly the need for programs to fit on a table, which his simple examples even seem to barely do. In a meeting you'd have to be constantly arranging things on the table, putting things away as you move on to the next example, remembering how to arrange the next deck etc.. personally if I do a presentation, I want all the slides on the cloud in case of any issues, not to be carrying round a set of cards in a binder..

I would think the more likely next step in combatting complexity, would be personalised AIs. These would understand the context of the presentation being given, and therefore can provide us remote audience members with explanations and visualisations on demand, that would suit our level of understanding of the problem.

Property law is abysmal in the UK, the fact that the squatters stuck up a sign on the wall naming their rights to occupy, just shows what a joke it is. I dont agree with property being left empty, but there is due process to these things, and the average worker has to suffer through all of it to even get one home.

If no one is buying at the current price then thats the market saying the fair price is lower, and perhaps it should just go to auction. I'm sure it's pocket change to Ramsey, but it set's an ugly precedent letting this go forth.

If you sit on a train without a ticket it's a jailable offence. How is breaking into someone's property and living there not completely illegal? It's completely inconsistent and squatting is a real problem here.

Google reviews from 10 months ago, so at least active till then

I have to say, watching this car crash in real time has ironically made me browse reddit more, just to watch the drama unfold. It's the same with twitter, these community sites have become so big, that the actions they take themselves are newsworthy.

The way this is unfolding, I can imagine this being a case study in a future revision of 'how to win friends and influence people', on completely what not to do. If that book is worth it's salt, then reddit's management complete unwillingness to work with its community, and constant lies, leading to virtual riots on its sites, should result in it's total collapse.

It looks like they took a profiler to the training process of today's largest AI models.

Firstly it'll be a universal low level software layer, that can run on top of any cloud hardware, which can then be developed against to enable maximal cloud reach when training models.

This sort of virtualisation might be considered slower than direct access, but they've also created a DSL on top of python, which looks to enable the compiler to make smarter decisions about how to allocate memory and compute during training. So both together presumably producing a speedup worthy of the hype.

Kudos to them if they deliver on their promise.

It's poor thinking on them to only provide a talking interface. I don't think I've encountered that personally, there is always a way to use the keypad - which I will always use anyway, even though they understand my voice, it's just x10 faster. And if you've made the call before you can type on the keypad before the robot on the other side is done talking.

Not at all. This means we are no long tying production quality of a game to how much money the developers have access to. It enables real creativity. Right now do you not think the AAA market is satured with yet another first person shooter etc? Creativity has lost out to capitalism, this will bring it back.

It does, once you have the character sheet, you put these together in blender and use them as reference for the 3d model, so everything comes out in proportion and its just grind really to place the vertices.

The rigging + animation is done by mixamo's AI so just touch up after.

He had to do a UV unwrap and then align the textures to this, this is time consuming just because it requires thinking about where to split the 3d model, to place the seams, then to fit it all in a texture, where you have to think about how much space to give each texture (more space = more quality). And then map the texture into this space too. This is a known pain in the 3d modelling for decades and no doubt AI will solve this in the next decade.

There is a lot of content in games. The AAA games can have single artists work on one character for the whole game. The author even says it saved him 5 days, and look how small the scene is he's talking about! AI has the ability to scale up the production quality of games, whilst taking half the time or less.

This kind of tech enables an indie to build a prototype with AI generated content, where the art direction is clear, then get funded in order to hire artists for the touch up. Kickstarters are often very visual, so this kind of stuff is required up front.

Wait until you hear about DNA

They said this when computers were introduced too, now there's more jobs than ever.

There is a simple explanation for why humans tend to say how things could be 'better', when you ask them how things could be 'different'. It's even one of the core beliefs of buddhism: life is suffering.

To unpack that statement, think about someone that does nothing with their life. Literally nothing. They'll quickly suffer hunger, starvation and finally a slow death. These are the defaults of life, you cannot sit still. It is not a choice. Even us who feed ourselves, and live a life, will still suffer old age and death. All one can do is take action in their life to reduce their suffering now, and in the future. You can apply this model to all facets of life, from relationships, work, gym, healthy eating, art and so on.

So really the study has just thought about it from the wrong angle. It's not people thinking 'how things could be better', its the brain naturally thinking 'how can I reduce my suffering further'.

Also, the core algorithm behind chatGpt, Transformer Neural Nets, was actually built by Google in 2017. They'll be fine

And the engine comes apart after not being in use for a while? Scary

The issue is we have to pre bake decisions into the application, and until the application is literally an AI this is as good as it gets. When building a program 'errors' occur all the time, but we make design decisions to handle them because we can identify the right path forward in the given context.

Remember you may consciously focus on the eyes, but the brain is taking in the whole image and importantly context - so the surrounding skin plays a role

Power begets more power.

Sometimes third parties give you json and that's it, in these cases these libraries are useful if being fastest to react is a constraint.

Psychology has always been part of the market, and this event can be explained by Soros' theory of reflexivity - that the stock market leads the fundementals, not the other way around. Once you forgo the efficient market hypothesis (and it's never been more obvious how incorrect this is), this event makes more sense. Same as Tesla, momentum is a psychological event lead by a positive feedback loop.

As a .Net developer I've.. never seen people write code at work like this. This looks like a hefty amount of boilerplate to achieve practically nothing. I'm guessing this guy learned Asp.Net first.

SQL anyone? High level language, immediate feedback mostly, does the low level optimisation for you, you can performance tune with indices where needed... :)

arnold seems alright

People forget the stock market is just a device to turn money into more money, which creates (and requires) sustained bubbles. There will be a blow off the top from time to time, but this just gives you a chance to buy at lower prices and so get better returns when it ticks up.

Thesedays, if it doesnt solve multithreading issues in a novel way, I'm not interested.

China Phase 2..

This is the reasoning behind the book Poor Dad Rich Dad, which to be fair makes quite a few good points about this stuff, and says you are left to your own devices because it isn't advantageous for govt, companies etc for you to be educated in these things. Good book to start off your 'financial intelligence' as Kiyosaki puts it. I particularly like how it is themed around the idea 'the rich don't work for money', and so the middle class bear much of the burden of the modern world.

Because humans can do it

I've had very good success with ETFs that are more focused on specific industries - clean energy, tech, EVs etc. I recently designed my own fund with a focus on E-Commerce, and to assign the weights I used the Quality/Value Rank from Stockopedia (essentially they combine a set of financial ratios for you, to determine how profitable a company is as well as how much the stock price has already 'priced in' future earnings).

The results almost feel like magic, but I am wary the market is being propelled heavily upward at the moment, and even a trump tweet has and can derail it. But as the saying goes, 'make hay while the sun is shining'.