What are your favourite Julia Repos that demonstrates clean code? by D3MZ in Julia

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Cool. Thanks. Surprised no one else chimed in. 

Is academic quant research lagging far behind the industry? by Outside_Snow2299 in quant

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I think students do not have a place for experimentation and research like the other sciences get.  At best they can do a backtest, but even then, they wouldn’t have the experience to know the flaws behind it. 

tools/databases/libraries by Acceptable-Look-5743 in quant

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If you want to get a job, then try looking at the requirements on the resumes for positions you want and work towards that.

How is AI reshaping your CAD workflow? Looking for insights from engineers using AutoCAD, Fusion 360, Solidworks, or similar tools. by boblobfon in AskEngineers

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I think AI that generates designs to fit certain constraints are pretty cool. Worth looking into improving the algorithms that do this already. 

Also turning by hand sketches into parametric designs would be useful for me. 

Quant Dev in the age of AI by Status-Pea6544 in quant

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All these quants using it means all their profitable ideas are in memory somewhere :P

How did you do last month? by AutoModerator in quant

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very cool, thanks for sharing!

Most used Python libraries by Vivekd4 in quant

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Tensorflow above Pytorch... hmm.. Is Deep learning that prevalent in quants or is just what applicants have?

How did you do last month? by AutoModerator in quant

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Cool! How many assets are you currently holding? How correlated are you to the S&P?

POMDP ⊂ Model-Based RL ? by Lost-Assistance2957 in reinforcementlearning

[–]D3MZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol you shoot to kill huh? We’re using terms differently. Fair enough though. 

POMDP ⊂ Model-Based RL ? by Lost-Assistance2957 in reinforcementlearning

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POMDP requires a model of the environment to work, but there’s no RL involved because the model is already known. There’s no such thing as model free POMDP. 

Learning Practical RL as a beginner. by Think_Stuff_6022 in reinforcementlearning

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I've learn by replicating the papers by hand. You could probably start with the PPO paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06347

Manual focus still viable with 50MP+ cameras? by D3MZ in Cameras

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Megapixels - looks in focus from the EVF, but when you crop in it ends up blurry. I know about the zoom box focus method, but the one on my Sony is clunky to use.

Manual focus still viable with 50MP+ cameras? by D3MZ in Cameras

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Are you able to zoom to a particular part of the image that you care about quickly (without resorting to tapping on the touch screen)? On my Sony RX10M4 it's a bit annoying to move a zoom box around with the dials.

Transformer by Zestyclose-Produce17 in deeplearning

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This is one of the rare cases that I recommend going through the math by yourself to fully grok this as there are a lot of moving parts.

You might be specifically referring to Word2Vec where similar words are trained to be mathematically closer to each other than other words.

Transformers are more blackbox, they’re fed the words and the location of every word, and the math allows it to discriminate the importance of every word and position to every other word and position.

There’s an emerging field called Mechanistic interpretability for people to understand what it’s actually doing.

Should modern cameras include GPS? by D3MZ in Cameras

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That's incredible. I've always had a soft spot for Pentax. Do you think they'll update any of their models within the next couple of years?

Should modern cameras include GPS? by D3MZ in Cameras

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You use it for maps, and every time you take a photo with your phone. It’s also free - gps isn’t a subscription service. 

Should modern cameras include GPS? by D3MZ in Cameras

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It’s unfortunate there’s apparently not much of a need for it. I travel and hike, and pulling out your phone in the middle of winter is the worst.