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by stocknoob 4mo ago
Index funds are market cap weighted. As companies fail, as they always do (median lifespan of S&P companies is about 15 years), you have less of it.
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by stocknoob 1y ago
I hope AI can one day confer a great benefit to mankind, perhaps at an award-winning level.
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by stocknoob 1y ago
My standard advice: For any young programmers: live within your means, invest the difference, become independent, and work on what you enjoy. It’s the best (work related) gift you can give yourself. Skip the self promotion politics unless y
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by stocknoob 2y ago
Why’d they give up? They should have just made a 1/5 pound burger.
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by stocknoob 2y ago
OP, listen to this. You may be giving lots of nonverbal signals. It’s not necessarily a simple conversation hack that can be described in text.
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by stocknoob 2y ago
At this point, anyone calling AI a trend sounds like someone calling electricity a trend. Believe it or not, there are paradigm shifts in technology every now and then. Not everything is 3D television.
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by stocknoob 2y ago
Similarly, in every thread there’s an AI skeptic who says LLMs are “useless” for coding, and never provides an example query for what they were trying.
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by stocknoob 2y ago
Thank you for sharing. For any young programmers: live within your means, invest the difference, become independent, and work on what you enjoy. It’s the best (work related) gift you can give yourself.
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by stocknoob 2y ago
Even then, brokers just show a percent loss of -100%. Our buddy would never see the cool infinity symbol. It’s too bad they aren’t a fan of dollar cost averaging into broad index funds, I think their older self would thank them.
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by stocknoob 2y ago
> How much VRAM and inference compute is required to run 3.1-70B vs 2-70B? We aren’t trying to mindlessly consume the same VRAM as last year and hope costs magically drop. We are noticing that we can get last year’s mid-level performance
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by stocknoob 2y ago
X to 0 is an interesting definition of unlimited.
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by stocknoob 2y ago
Take a look at the latest Llama and Phi models. They get comparable MMLU performance for ~10% of the parameters. Not to mention the cost/flop and cost/gb for GPUs has dropped. You aren’t trying to run an old 2023 model as is, you’
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by stocknoob 2y ago
It’s wild, are people purposefully overlooking that inference costs are dropping 10-100x each year? https://a16z.com/llmflation-llm-inference-cost/ Look at the log scale slope, especially the orange MMLU > 83 data p
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by stocknoob 2y ago
The zero fee total market funds are almost identical to S&P https://portfolioslab.com/tools/stock-comparison/FZROX/SPY Unless you have a very good reason, just go for the cheapest.
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by stocknoob 2y ago
Rent out/airbnb a room in your house?
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by stocknoob 2y ago
You’ve subconsciously altered your search behavior to avoid categories that Google is horrible at. Any product reviews will be SEO garbage (blogspam too 10 lists). Anything travel will be a page full of ads before organic results, if any. Y
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by stocknoob 2y ago
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/press-relea...
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by stocknoob 2y ago
Imagine you’re running a physics simulation. With conservation of energy: if energy shows up somewhere, it went down somewhere else. We shouldn’t assume a balance changed on its own without any other effects in the system. If you start “los
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by stocknoob 2y ago
I think Your Money or Your Life (Vicki Robbins, 1992) predates it and helped inspire Mr Money Moustache, but Collins’ book is great too. For everyone reading this, pursuing FIRE will impact your life more than any other book. Set the ball i
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by stocknoob 2y ago
Your index fund grows on the activity of people who spend 100k on a consumable item. Good for them, they can work their whole life if they like. You can relax and let compounding do the rest.
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by stocknoob 2y ago
My 2c if helpful: the solution was to question deeper assumptions. Why are you at a desk? Because you have to work 8 hours. Why? Because your job requires it. Why do you have that job? Because you need income to live. Is a job the only way
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by stocknoob 2y ago
If you were sincere you’d share a single transcript where the AI was completely useless for solving your problem. “This new search engine sucks it can’t find anything”. “Share what you searched for” “No”
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by stocknoob 2y ago
For employees the mid/long term solution is to seek FI so you can do your creative work without the meta-game of managing perceptions.
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by stocknoob 2y ago
100%. It’s a good example of how the media wants to entertain, not inform. The DJIA is a price-weighted index and doesn’t track dividends, yet is somehow supposed to reflect investor sentiment.
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by stocknoob 2y ago
Land is a shared, zero-sum resource: a parking lot is not a park. Your software development methodology is your own. Why does someone else’s use of a tool deprive you of doing things the way you want?
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by stocknoob 2y ago
Does a player piano rob you of playing music yourself? A car from walking? A wheelbarrow from working out? It’s up to you if you want to stop practicing! Chess has become even more popular despite computers that can “rob us” of the joy. The
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by stocknoob 2y ago
Would False Positive be a good name for a medical screening service?
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by stocknoob 2y ago
Switch? Por que no los dos?
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by stocknoob 2y ago
Unless it’s already been fixed, the queen’s term (t^12) has 2/5 in the article.
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by stocknoob 2y ago
The naysayers used to bother me, but then I realized it’s no skin off my back if they don’t want to become familiar with a transformative technology. Stay with the old tools, people are getting excited for no reason at all, everyone is just

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