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whoisthis12··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Working on a automated stock market trading algo. Focused only on swing trading with a fixed index.

Earlier I had some success with a couple of srats, but they aren't working any more. Idea is to have an arsenal of strategies and use whichever is performing better based on recent back tests.

More than the trading part, the fact I can leverage some ML in these interests me, plus quite fascinating how helpful llms have become especially for python programming.

whoisthis12··on "Are We Automata?" by William James (1879)
Try the reader view in chrome or Firefox. For chrome on android I automatically got a prompt to view simplified page
whoisthis12··on How some common material imbalances affect your win-rate
Do you know what the site is?
whoisthis12··on The Last Week in AI
People keep mentioning we will have agi in our lifetimes but do we have any proper definition of agi? Are there any benchmarks to prove it?
whoisthis12··on Time Tracking Under Quarantine
Is there some method to get back to the normal rhythm, other than simply forcing yourself to sleep during the normal night hours?
whoisthis12··on India orders coronavirus tracing app for all workers
> If you are roaming out when there is a lockdown, the cops ought to check the app. The app is meant for contact tracing. About getting beaten or made to do situps, in my view, a far lesser punishment rather than charging and going the legal route. Than would be draconian.

Was watching the news channel yesterday. Some guy had spit on the road. The police made him take off his shirt, and wipe it on the road thoroughly. If this wasn't enough, they made him do squats, while holding his ears, in the middle of the road in everyone's view. At some point, it turned from a punishment to simply humiliating someone just because you have that power.

> I would agree about privacy issues if the govt. asks citizens to use it even after this pandemic is done. In that case, I myself will go to the streets to fight.

This is just a guess of mine since I don't think we have seen any new devices coming with this app pre-installed, cause who's buying phones now. The app won't be easy to uninstall, and even if you can uninstall with adb or disable, how many people do you think will do that?

Even if the app is easy to uninstall, most people will forget to uninstall until specifically asked to do so. I have seen so many Indians still content with the Cheetah bloatware that often comes pre-installed, oblivious to the fact that they are utterly useless.

> The mobile number part concerns me. Government wants to use it as a way to contact people but the potential for abuse is there

>What abuse are you talking about?

Do you remember the adhaar database leak? How much confidence do you have in our government's security measures?

whoisthis12··on Wolfram Alpha: {y = Re(sqrt(abs(x)(1-abs(x)))), y = Re(-sqrt(1-sqrt(abs(x))))}
For me, the 2 banners are related to Wolfram Alpha. Possibly generated from the backend directly, so there's no ad network involved, which can be blocked.
whoisthis12··on Ask HN: Are you ok?
I guess I am doing relatively fine. I am in my early 20s and this is my first job after graduation.

But I have this irritating problem that I keep obsessing over any unsolved problem from work, which seems to affect my personal life as well. Until and unless I complete that(which can be a simple algo or lets say a small features), it basically keeps bugging me. Is this relatable to others? Maybe this is because of my lack of experience, and gradually with time, I can get over it.