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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Building algorithmic trading models. So far results continue to be good with every model outperforming the market on both absolute and risk-adjusted basis since going live. Since launching https://grizzlybulls.com in January 2022: Model | Return | Max drawdown ------------------- S&P 500 (benchmark) | 21.51% | -27.56% VIX TA Macro MP Extreme | 64.21% | -16.48% VIX TA Macro Advanced| 59.13% | -19.12% VIX TA Advanced |…

Where are you sourcing your data from/what are you trading through?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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The "me database" tracking my gps for physical location, urls visited, etc.. This way I can search through all my physical and computer activity to answer questions like: how many times did I go to the gym last year? or how many leetcode questions did I do this month? Wrote a summary here ( https://theptrk.com/2024/09/27/me-database-master-plan/ )

Nice I plan on doing this for a whole year, hopefully 2025, but with lots of sleep data possibly with openBCI components and other devices and see if I can gain insight into some weird health phenomenons I've been experiencing.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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post #455

Building algorithmic trading models. So far results continue to be good with every model outperforming the market on both absolute and risk-adjusted basis since going live. Since launching https://grizzlybulls.com in January 2022: Model | Return | Max drawdown ------------------- S&P 500 (benchmark) | 21.51% | -27.56% VIX TA Macro MP Extreme | 64.21% | -16.48% VIX TA Macro Advanced| 59.13% | -19.12% VIX TA Advanced |…

The models use a variety of indicators, many of them custom built Do you run it with good volumes or are these returns “as if”?

> Do you run it with good volumes or are these returns “as if”?

This trades the S&P 500. The SPY ETF along trades 21 billion dollars a day of volume. He'd probably need to trade a billion dollars to impact it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

#465

I've been working on https://wut.dev in my spare time. It's essentially a simpler, read-only, AWS dashboard where everything is a filterable, searchable, exportable-to-CSV table, with some extra features like multi-region mode, saved notes, and a debugger for access denied errors. It uses the AWS SDK for JavaScript, so everything is run client-side from your browser. I'm not 100% sure what direction I'm taking it yet…

are you designing the UI for every service by hand, or doing it programmatically somehow?

I'm using ag-grid for my project too. I did a bunch of work to make configuring it more declarative... so you can have pinned rows that read from a different data source for summary stats, so you can specify custom renderers for each column. how have you found ag-grid to use?

https://buckaroo-data.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/inde... I need to clean up those examples.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

#466

I'm plugging away on my BitGrid project.... a Turing complete stripped down version of an FPGA without routing fabric and with added delays (for reasons). I'm learning KiCad 8.0, so I can do schematics and build a prototype cell out of TTL.[1] I'm also re-acquainting myself with Verilog so I can do an ASIC prototype through TinyTapeout. The main question that I hope to answer is just how much power a bitgrid cell act…

How is ChatGPT with verilog? Analysis, debugging and/or generation?

I was using DeepSeek Coder and Claude for verilog quite successfully back in June - saved me a lot of time creating testbenches. Probably better now. I need to try the latest Gemini 1.5 pro to see how it does. I used DeepSeek Coder to create a testbench for some legacy verilog code that was poorly documented - it did quite well, better than I was expecting. It even collected repeated code into tasks which kind of surprised me.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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A new robotics framework - https://basisrobotics.tech/ Very testing and production focused. Biggest competitor is ROS though there’s some others popping up now. Our first public release is going to be within a month, I’m excited.

Cool! I’ve been looking for ROS alternatives

Please add yourself to our contact list via the "Contact Us" link - can notify you when it's out.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

#468
I am working on a new Computer Algebra System (CAS) tool, which is a programming language focused on math called Openbirch https://gitlab.com/Sveske-Juice/openbirch.

It will probably be licensed with some open source license like GPL or MIT. Right now there really isn't much functionality, but i hope that it someday will be as good as other existing CAS tools like Maple and WolframAlpha.

The main motivation for this project besides from learning, is that there really isn't any modern open source alternatives to the leading CAS tools (at least that i know of).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

#469
https://www.parentcontrols.win/

An AI parent filter, which can remove and modify page content in real time. It's designed for kids using their first computer, and is fully launched (although only available on Windows right now).

Admittedly we're looking for seed funding and may not stay open forever, but the tech itself is really cool, and we get really strong positive reactions from parents once they learn you can use this to filter out quasi-political content in addition to adult/graphic content. We're entering an age where all content can be modified in real time, and I think Parent Controls Win still has a lot of potential.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

#470
Namebrand-Check, a browser extension to help me sort out BS brands on Amazon from legitimate ones. This is something I struggle with regularly. Unless you know the category real well, you may miss that KEEN is a great brand for durable shoes for kids, or example.

Using an LLM to do the brand ranking with great results so far. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/namebrand-check-for...

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