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partypete

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    Show HN: Engroles.com – Verified, Active SWE Listings from Recruiters

    I created engroles because, as I was looking for a job as a software engineer, I realized that most of the listings out there are black holes where my application likely went to di…

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    Ask HN: Mathematics Version of "The Missing Semester of Your CS Education?"

    I really enjoyed the "Missing Semester" MIT course for computer science. Has anyone come across a similar sort of course for mathematics?

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    Comment #44635213

    The idea that a home loan is risk-free ignores decades of recent history. A quick google search for "2008 GFC" will bring you up to speed. Given that home loans are not, in fact, r…

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    Comment #43131978

    I think this is an excellent way to think about LLM's and any other software-augmented task. Appreciate you putting the time into an article. I do think your points supported by th…

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    Comment #43090378

    Author here. I just used a free pdf version of the book and the legacy software package which they link to on the website. Great experience. The authors have since created a self-c…

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    Comment #41964811

    Keep in mind that the actual profit if the bot were not randomly choosing between each model version would be about 600k/hour. You're conflating the experimental profit, wherein ea…

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    Comment #41954377

    That’s right - I retrained the model every 7 days. These experiment results are from the most recent one-week period.

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    Comment #41954368

    The training data is composed of the bot’s previously executed trades from the last 63 days joined on the price/volume data. So the model discovers patterns in the price/volume dat…

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    Comment #41403898

    For what it’s worth, I am a relatively young engineer who has recently been working very closely with other engineers over the age of 55 on a daily basis. It has been one of the mo…

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    Comment #41059327

    You may be interested in some of the foundational papers exploring game theory models similar to the Ultimatum game[1][2]. These are known as Iterated Prisoner's Dilemmas. --- [1] …

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    Comment #40702750

    Came here to say this. They only just recently got an AMD GPU on MLPerf thanks to a (different company), Tinycorp by George Hotz. I guess basic ML performance is too hard a problem…