finexplained

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by finexplained 3y ago
I work on very interesting technical problems with very smart colleagues for excellent pay. All my career progression is in compensation, so I can remain an IC forever and no one thinks that's a negative. I'm subject to no politic
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by finexplained 3y ago
I work at an HFT firm. Most fun I've ever had.
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by finexplained 3y ago
I thought the H100s were ~30-40k each. But they're not widely available and you usually buy multiple boxes from vendors that also come with expensive CPUs/RAM etc.
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by finexplained 3y ago
I'm sorry, I know we're not suppose to engage in ad hominem attacks. I'll refrain in the future.
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by finexplained 3y ago
The deltas between the military/technology of the worlds top economies might not even be noteworthy to a species capable of interstellar travel. From there perspective we might just all look the same.
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by finexplained 3y ago
Empirical studies can be surprising.
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by finexplained 3y ago
The five paragraph format will forever be suspicious.
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by finexplained 3y ago
tldr: LoRA fine-tuning of an open-source alpaca model. See https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15717 for why calling this a private ChatGPT is probably misleading.
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by finexplained 4y ago
> And are most of the people she‘s well-connected to not annoyed that she lost their money? Ya admittedly one would have to assess that and also make some estimate about how much her notoriety will positively or negatively affect her off
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by finexplained 4y ago
I mean, she's attractive, smart, pretty good genetics, clearly well connected. I don't find it that surprising.
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by finexplained 4y ago
Elon Musk is a prominent member of the tech industry and of Silicon Valley history, dating back to the days of Zip2 and Paypal. It's just a fact.
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by finexplained 4y ago
The distribution is different. The median programmer provides much more value than the median artist. Additionally math/cs skills apply much more broadly than art skills. The entertainment industry would be much less leveraged without
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by finexplained 4y ago
Sure, but we actually provide business value and our toolset is applicable to a broad set of problems.
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by finexplained 4y ago
You decide you want to optimize for number of lives saved. You decide that future lives, those of people yet to be born, are worth as much as those currently alive. You place small, but importantly not zero, probability on existential risks
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by finexplained 4y ago
Um, because I think words have meaning, and I think accusing people of actions that have legal implications when they are not in fact doing those things is bad.
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by finexplained 4y ago
This allegation of frontrunning references another trading participant, not the miners. Also, arguably, and certainly not legally.
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by finexplained 4y ago
I respectfully don't think it is too harsh. Every legal definition I know of frontrunning requires a client relationship. Even in the case of "non-public" information, frontrunning refers to trading ahead of your client based
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by finexplained 4y ago
Yep, that one is my bad. That's why I added the edit.
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by finexplained 4y ago
Couple things. (1) The word "frontrunning" applies only in a very specific context, where you trade in front of an entity with which you have a client relationship. That is different from capturing a trading opportunity because yo
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by finexplained 5y ago
In the first case, they complain, and there's ~750 of them (in the course I TAed) so even a small number can take up a lot of time. The right way to think about it is for a small additional bit of time spent clarifying instructions you
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by finexplained 5y ago
This perfectly describes my experience as a TA in graduate school. At first I didn't understand why my advisor insisted on being so precise in assignment instructions. Then when TAing with him I saw how students could creatively misint
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by finexplained 5y ago
It's a controlled substance, you need a prescription.
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by finexplained 5y ago
I've never understood why the measure that universities seem to care about is the number of students they reject instead of the number of students above their bar that they are able to educate. Harvard could easily educate 1-2 orders o
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by finexplained 5y ago
I really don't understand why this wasn't done years ago. > is concerned that the emergency declaration is being used to support her plan for more policing in the neighborhood, which could criminalize people with substance use
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by finexplained 5y ago
It's just an instagram for a young (attractive) woman who likes taking nature travel photos. If you've seen one influencer instagram you get the gist.
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by finexplained 5y ago
> If that was the case then FAANG wouldn't be filled with Asians and engineers from ex-Soviet countries. The makeup of high paying tech companies does not represent in any way the makeup of the American population. I don't thin
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by finexplained 5y ago
I don't really think the connection you're trying to draw follows immediately. There are very strong domestic students, probably enough to fill all the top PhD programs. The calculus for pursuing a PhD is different if you're
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by finexplained 5y ago
You can't; the sentence is an intentional simplification for the purposes of a joke. A torus has two non-trivial elements in its 1-dimensional homology group: there are two types of loops that I can't contract to a point on a toru
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by finexplained 5y ago
I'm going to go against the grain of the comments section here. As someone who likes both AI and 3D graphics, this is awful. It's graphically pleasing, sure, though a bit sluggish, but why? It's such an incredibly inefficient
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by finexplained 5y ago
And how did your collection find its way into those discords... You outsourced the marketing to your followers, that's what social capital is. If you were a no-name individual with 20 followers, your NFTs probably wouldn't have so

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