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Comment #49242184
It's often basically true though - the guarantees that rust can make wrt to lifetimes and memory allocation clearly enable programs to allocate less and be more aggressive with wha…
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Comment #49235569
yes i've found that there are a few topics that i've really been able probably 10x my understanding of using LLMs, in particular in getting me over hoops that are hard to navigate …
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Comment #49230877
what did they not implement from 754? Given the design of the processor i can imagine them being very aggressive with assumptions around exception handling / traps - iirc this is a…
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Comment #49228030
I assume it's often parallel construction
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Comment #49227041
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/18810/how-did-th... (was curious)
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Comment #49227033
surely there is a roland emmerich movie in there somewhere
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Comment #49223618
if it's really easy for a model to read the source code / docs of a tool i've found that they fill in the gaps really easily and have no trouble using it.
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Comment #49220894
There should be a halfway point between kdb and postgres... So more seriously my thinking is that we should, on purely moral grounds strive to have things be fast and lean. How man…
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Comment #49188812
If the tools are all in the same monorepo idk if that's actually true
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Comment #49117299
When LIBOR was killed, financial derivatives were forced to reference (compounded) SOFR, it's a trimmed average of all the overnight lending agreements.
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Comment #49046826
How much of the paper was written with AI?
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Comment #49028956
A risk in this situation is that in names that are dominated by passive flows there is a pro-cyclical effect where because the name is valued in terms of the overall index but is a…
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Comment #49028925
Indeed, we have just been through arguably the largest (nominal) drawdown in the history of fixed income.
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Comment #49028918
The cost of insurance is carry e.g. when you buy an option you are paying for the convexity with time decay. It is quite expensive. It is worth saying however that part of tail hed…
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Comment #49019763
This is actually kind of happening! (In a way) There are, at this point, quite a few git-successors that either basically or literally use gits object model - git-butler, jujutsu, …
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Comment #48940465
Yes I assumed datafusion when I heard that phrase.
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Comment #48940457
Would be interested in strategic value add versus cedardb (although cedar is closed source in a way that at the moment I think may kill it)
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Comment #48939086
The noun to verb ratio is too high. This is a normative statement but it's one I'm willing to make that you apparently can't detect.
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Comment #48933897
It's a product of an era of OOP when the idea of a program fitting in a developers head was a dangerous reactionary idea. They have in fairness fixed a lot of the worst aspects of …
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Comment #48933127
C# is a pretty bad language when you take away the stack it sits atop of. I do mostly like the async but developers put up with a lot of shit to e.g. use the msft networking stack …
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Comment #48909702
It doesn't feel nice to say but hearing from people I know who work in politics just how much the prospect of having to disclose something changes behaviour (in what people say but…
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Comment #48909682
Almost definitely Id think - I think we have to treat it something like power tools / chairs and a gym. AI makes me massively more productive as a quant, and more creative in the s…
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Comment #48824638
Yes but there is Hans, 25, of Wiesbaden who is the telephone-pole-material guy who catalogues these things.
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Comment #48812302
Honestly I don't find most adjustments that complicated as long as you think about it economically rather than pulling a formula out thin air e.g. think about how you arbitrage it …
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Comment #48745161
I read somewhere that Apple even uses Linux kernels to bring up new hardware but I don't know if it's actually/still true.