dnadler

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by dnadler 3mo ago
Well, for one thing, I’d point to all the other anecdotes of developers being made 10x more efficient due to LLM use. But really I’m just comparing against my personal experience. Once I learned how to use the tools well, and what to expect
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by dnadler 3mo ago
> Don't use it to write code. It's a terrible programmer. I see this sentiment often, and I’m honestly not sure where this comes from, as it’s really not been my experience. I feel like this must come from people feeling threat
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by dnadler 4mo ago
Was it repressed? It doesn’t look to be significantly less prevalent than other 9s from the histogram.
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by dnadler 4mo ago
He sold his business . That tends to happen quite a bit.
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by dnadler 5mo ago
Yeah, historically it’s been software that’s limited AMD here. Not surprised to hear that may still be the issue. NVidia’s biggest edge was really CUDA.
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by dnadler 11mo ago
It’s not that they don’t have it. It’s that they don’t want it.
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by dnadler 1y ago
Software aside, does AMD have a potential strategic advantage in the long term since they are also producing top tier CPUs? Is there some future benefit to tightly integrating their products? IIRC NVidia partnered with intel for this purpos
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by dnadler 1y ago
I’ve been wondering about this. It used to be that different chip makers had different efficiencies, and so measuring two different companies chips in gigawatts wouldn’t be a good apples to apples comparison. Is that still true or has the g
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by dnadler 1y ago
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by dnadler 1y ago
I think maybe this refers to unlearning wrong information?
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by dnadler 1y ago
I have a similar mindset though less focused on the type of questions being asked and more about how many times I have to answer the same question. Ideally, the number is one time. As in one conversation where the person walks away understa
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by dnadler 1y ago
Actually, I think humans require much less energy than LLMs. Even raising a human to adulthood would be cheaper from a calorie perspective than running an AGI algorithm (probably). Its the whole reason why the premise of the Matrix was ridi
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by dnadler 2y ago
I think the big piece that is being overlooked here is the distance. The distance itself poses significant challenges. The obvious things like resupply and communication are much harder. But also the journey to mars is much harder on the hu
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by dnadler 2y ago
I haven’t kept up with python too much over the past year or two and learned a couple new things from this code. Namely, match/case and generic class typing. Makes me wonder what else is new, off to the python docs!
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by dnadler 2y ago
Oof, yeah, this site is really not great on iOS. The first time I published a site, I was surprised by how much traffic came from mobile devices, even though my page was intended for desktop users. I really shouldn’t have been surprised, bu
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by dnadler 2y ago
It’s interesting how many different opinions there are in this thread! Perhaps it really varies by field. I was reading mostly neuroscience papers when I was taught this method as an undergrad (though the details are a bit fuzzy these days)
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by dnadler 2y ago
While that wasn’t my experience as a junior developer, this is something that I used to do with academic papers. I would read it start to finish. Later on, I learned to read the abstract, then jump to either the conclusion or some specific
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by dnadler 2y ago
You’ve convinced me!
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by dnadler 2y ago
It can be more than one thing - it's both, and more.
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by dnadler 2y ago
Well, commutes into a central city is a bit of different beast, and many metros in the US have trains that service the suburbs. Driving in and around the suburbs is what I was talking about.
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by dnadler 2y ago
That fixes it for certain types of people, but certainly not for most people in in the north east during winter.
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by dnadler 2y ago
People in US suburbs frequently live several miles from their town center, if they even have a town center at all. Cycling simply isn’t viable to large swaths of the US. There isn’t an easy answer to this either, given that you’d probably n
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by dnadler 2y ago
Yeah, that’s fair, and something you basically get for free. Also, hi James! :)
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by dnadler 2y ago
I’ve never seen it used for backtests personally. Generally backtested results are saved as a batch of variants following some naming convention as different symbols.
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by dnadler 2y ago
For pricing data, sure, but for things like fundamentals or economics where there are estimates that are revised over time, one way to store this data is with a versioning feature. It allows for PIT data without much overhead, in theory. An
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by dnadler 2y ago
Yeah that’s fair, not open source, I was incorrect, though I think it’s more than personal use only. “Production use only” is doing a lot of heavy lifting and I don’t know exactly what that means (though could make a guess).
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by dnadler 2y ago
If it wasn’t clear from the article, this is open source and available on Man’s GitHub page: https://github.com/man-group/arcticDB I used to work at man, so take this with a grain of salt, but I really liked this and h
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by dnadler 2y ago
Nope, it’s fairly generic. I worked at Man for a number of years and with Arctic a lot during that time. In my role I was mostly working with daily data, but also higher and lower frequency data, and never had issues.
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by dnadler 2y ago
“1 of 3” is not the same thing as “1 to 3”, so I don’t think they mean the same thing here.
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by dnadler 2y ago
Gravity is proportional to 1/r^2 (r being distance), so you could take a stab at computing your ISS question with that info. The centripetal force question is a little more challenging, but still in the realm of algebra. The complicate

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