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noitpmeder

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noitpmeder··on Baumol's Cost Disease
At least the URL immediately calls out the fact the site is nothing but AI spew.
noitpmeder··on How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs
Imo it's not out of place in context if one is trying to determine if the candidate has an interest in finance.

Now, I'm not disqualifying them if they dont read the journal. But if they can't demonstrate any proactive interest in finance, or tell me about some happenings/events/stories they personally find interesting (theres a ton of interesting stuff happening) its definitely an amber flag.

noitpmeder··on How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs
I'm not sure I follow. In this instance we're talking about multiple backend matching engines... Correct? By definition they must be kept in sync, or at least have total omnipotent knowledge about the state of all other backend book states.
noitpmeder··on Purdue University approves new AI requirement for all undergrads
How to Speedrun devaluing the credentials your institution exists to award.
noitpmeder··on Java FFM zero-copy transport using io_uring
For your pet project? No. For something you're building for others to use? Almost certainly yes.
noitpmeder··on How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs
Off the cuff, id expect this leads to less improvement than you might think. The vast majority of orders, especially orders arriving in sequence close to one another, are likely on a small set of extremely liquid symbols, and usually all for prices at or near the top of the book for those symbols.

Happy to discuss more, might be off the mark... these optimizations are always very interesting in their theoretical vs actual perf impact.

noitpmeder··on How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs
Thanks for all the info!

I'm a front office engineer at a prop firm -- always interesting to get insight into how others do it.

We have fairly similar parallels, maybe with the exception of throwing new exchange connections to the dedicated networking group.

Always love watching their incident responses from afar (usually while getting impacted desks to put away the pitchforks). Great examples of crisis management, effectiveness and prioritization under pressure, ... All while being extremely pragmatic about actual vs perceived risk.

(I'm sure joining KCG in August of 2012 was a wild time...)

noitpmeder··on How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs
Curious what your actual role was -- sounds very interesting! Project manager? Dev? Operations specialist? E.g. were you hired into this role, and what were the requisites?
noitpmeder··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
Obviously you're being facetious, that is not at all what that poster is claiming.

While I agree that entering a dark alley shouldn't result in ill effects, if ill effects happen in said dark alley it is still worth the discussion to remind people to stay out of dark alleys in today's day and age (or until the root problem, whatever it is, is improved).

Pretending that it is OK to enter dark alleys and forcing blame elsewhere will continue to have people unwittingly enter dark alleys.

noitpmeder··on The Checkerboard
But you see, when these rule were being framed bad actors PLANNED on exploiting the checkerboard to expand their effective control. (Or at least it seems so obvious of an issue that I have to imagine _someone_ was scheming along these lines).
noitpmeder··on Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud
Which venta are you referencing here?
noitpmeder··on OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
That instantly kills the patient -- "But you asked me to remove his pain"
noitpmeder··on OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
Just because they're better at writing CS algorithms doesn't mean they're taking steps closer to anything resembling AGI.
noitpmeder··on Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions
I'd say my expectation is papers should be minimal in their effect, and compounding. If your project proves new facts, either they should be clearly enumerable (with as much specificity as possible), or your project/presentation/paper should be broken up to the point your findings ARE enumerable.
noitpmeder··on Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence
The president isnt going to personally enrich himself and his cronies by _divesting_ power from his offce
noitpmeder··on Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence
Apparently popular enough to get him elected. It's not like his supporters were under any pretense who or what they were voting for
noitpmeder··on Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence
But it's not like AI did any of that...
noitpmeder··on Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems
I mean you can't fault them for that approach.

Obviously we would all like a full post mortem from the home dept side, but in today's litigious shareholder-value-driven world their response is the correct one.

noitpmeder··on Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon
Because defending civilians who Israel is targeting is, in today's world, considered antisemitic
noitpmeder··on Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon
How about we just stop socializing with Israel and its supporters while we're at it
noitpmeder··on How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants
Who the hell cares what garbage chatgpt vomited based on your unspecified chain of prompts?
noitpmeder··on Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions
I'd go one further and say all published papers should come with a clear list of "claimed truths", and one is only able to cite said paper if they are linking in to an explicit truth.

Then you can build a true hierarchy of citation dependencies, checked 'statically', and have better indications of impact if a fundamental truth is disproven, ...

noitpmeder··on Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?
You'll have to give some context. What did hella mean? How many months of your current spend rate do you have in the bank?
noitpmeder··on 28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset
Not sure it's clear they will learn anything.... My impression was they were winning or settling these suits
noitpmeder··on The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake
Agreed. I'd love to have some of whatever copium the GP is smoking... Or be half as sure about many things as they are about this insane speculation.
noitpmeder··on Feedback doesn't scale
What do you feel you cannot share concerns with your peers?
noitpmeder··on AI has a deep understanding of how this code works
It is truly unfortunate for you that your actions have probably tainted your future open source contributions for a long time.
noitpmeder··on What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project
Economies of scale
noitpmeder··on Robinhood, Susquehanna Escalate Prediction-Market Arms Race
https://archive.is/5vFW2
noitpmeder··on Python is not a great language for data science
I don't know about _squillions_, but numpy definitely has _requirements_, even if they're not represented as such in the python graph.

e.g.

  https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/main/.gitmodules (some source code requirements)
  https://github.com/numpy/numpy/tree/main/requirements (mostly build/ci/... requirements)
  ...
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