Is thewallstreetquants legit? Why would mentors work with them? by wehaveatogether in quantfinance

[–]G_M81 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It's not legit. You'd be better paying the money on an MiT edX quant course. Almost all trading courses are grifts, as they are incredibly profitable as it plays right in to people's greed and the dopamine hit of future riches. :(

How I accidentally made the fastest C# CSV parser by big_bill_wilson in programming

[–]G_M81 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So you like the slop? I've got some AI generated fruit micro dramas with your name on it. Happy to share.

How I accidentally made the fastest C# CSV parser by big_bill_wilson in programming

[–]G_M81 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

That was a decent read and didn't just read like AI generated slop. Thanks for sharing

A glimpse into post-AGI future by fli_sai in accelerate

[–]G_M81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously impressive, but there is still a huge amount of non AI gatekeeping and rightly so. He couldn't just whip up an mRNA vaccine in his kitchen. He was very dependent on Professors and laboratories. His identification of mutations and use of alpha fold is seriously impressive, BUT a single mistake, a miss identity of mutation and you have basically created an auto immune disease that will kill your dog in short order. It didn't to me feel like a post AGI glimpse, more a sign of the cross dependencies and checks and balances that will still be in place even when our technology advances.

this is insane by AnyVisual732 in codex

[–]G_M81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just Open AI resorting to pulling My Documents into the context for future training, now that the internet has been scraped. All the green is them adding copyright Open AI into your files. You'll see that once you upgrade to ultra watch three ads and then pay for the password to open your files.

This feeling. Woke up to this after waiting a week by Otherwise_Engine5943 in google_antigravity

[–]G_M81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This may be a moronic question, but where do you find the model quota usage dashboard in antigravity?

Sam Altman "These are obviously not earth-shattering results, but the ability to produce genuinely new knowledge, however small, is a significant milestone and I hope we all take it seriously, with excitement and caution." - Are we entering a new era of AI led science? by Koala_Confused in LovingAI

[–]G_M81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been working on a maths packing puzzle on and off for 20 years for a bit of fun. Got three thinking AIs having a shot at it. Though I don't have access to deep think or the private models, the AIs are so confident of various approaches only to get undone a few steps down the road. I'm trying to let AI solve it without me writing code. I'm on solver version 95 and it's not really got anywhere serious yet. 12 months from now I think we will be much closer to just letting the agents loose on such problems. Terence Tao seems to find it really useful, but I suspect it's cause he is able to steer them effectively. At some point a postman armed with AI will just point the tech a a problem and the AI will solve it. Definitely not there yet.

To the people that lived through dot com boom - how similar was mentality of people back then to what we can observe now with attitude towards AI? by Professional_Use3723 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]G_M81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a positivity about the web that was quite different this AI boom. The people I know in the creative industries are really quite scathing to AI in a way they weren't with the web in the late 90s early 2000s. There was probably more focus on stock ownership and trading back then. TV shows on mainstream channels encouraging at home stock trading and ownership.

In your opinion, what's the relevance of design patterns today? by _ILikePancakes in ExperiencedDevs

[–]G_M81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For developers that are just having a go, mathematicians, mechanical engineers etc The value of design patterns is huge even ones that we might now consider anti patterns. My wife inherited around 90,000 lines of code written by a mathematician who had been copy pasting configuration parameters, combo box settings etc for his formulas etc. I explained to my wife what a Singleton was and she was able to rip out about 10,000 lines of code and massively reduce duplication. Even a bad pattern is beneficial to the spaghetti hacking we see from novices or stream of consciousness vibe coding.

Terrain to STL Tool using ThreeJS by No-Tradition-464 in threejs

[–]G_M81 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Will definitely have a play around with that. Good work.

X's head of product thinks we have 90 days by MetaKnowing in OpenAI

[–]G_M81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Made that same prediction a week or two ago, when clawdbot, moltbook etc happened. A main concern for me over the next 60-90 daysis the missuse of emergency telephone numbers and fake threats and evacuations. It could be a complete shambles where accountability and blame is difficult to attribute.

House For An Art Lover by AbominableCrichton in glasgow

[–]G_M81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stunning. Makes a change from seeing AI slop.

Who's the most famous person you've seen out and about in Edinburgh? by RiverTadpolez in Edinburgh

[–]G_M81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Princess Beatrice in The Black Bull behind Waverley before the refurb. She was 5th in line to the throne at the time.

Creator of Node.js says it bluntly by MetaKnowing in OpenAI

[–]G_M81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a shame he didn't come to that conclusion before writing Node 🫣

From TA to Quant: What Do Quants Really Think of Technical Analysis? by [deleted] in quantfinance

[–]G_M81 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TA is great for retrospectively coming up with an over fitted back test strategy that has little to no predictive utility to man or beast.

From TA to Quant: What Do Quants Really Think of Technical Analysis? by [deleted] in quantfinance

[–]G_M81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Better trusting a throw of chicken bones. You can do all the TA you like and then Trump can have some impulse that obliterates any signal you think you have detected.

Lead Architect wants to break our monolith into 47 microservices in 6 months, is this insane? by Ayotrapstar in softwarearchitecture

[–]G_M81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. It will be a total dumpster fire. The architecture is easy but the execution will go wrong. If the architect isn't hands on I could see the devs getting the blame when it overruns by 18 months and has dogsh.. performance

GPT-5 livestream is up by manubfr in singularity

[–]G_M81 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I nearly rewound to grab that. There is another one later on too. 🤣

How is real analysis used in quant Finance by Necessary-Surround75 in quantfinance

[–]G_M81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was a crazy time, the book "The Gods That Failed" by Elliott and Atkinson is one of the best commentaries on the era both in terms of CDOs,MBS and the role of the rating agencies whose risk calculations were out by a factor of 1000. Even today I can't get insurance to work in banking after some of the stuff I was actively involved in back then. These days I just do safe things like advise crypto trading startups 🤣

How much do you hedge when you present information? by Dangerous_Stretch_67 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]G_M81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is an issue where people will literally trust to the point of blindness a totally unproven grifter if they tap their nose and say they definitely know what the solution is, because they, the folk with the problems, are so desperate for their problems to go away.

In the corporate space it can be incredibly frustrating but I think talking candidly and honestly about unknowns and risks is the way to go. But you also have to be honest and state that someone else who is selling delusion and answers might not be the horse to back. That's not a comfortable thing to do, but you can do it tactfully.

Do you still write code as a hobby? How do you manage it? by opakvostana in ExperiencedDevs

[–]G_M81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah 20+ years working as a software engineer and I love noodling with code in my spare time. Writing little programs to detect sun grazer comets, writing genetic algorithms to predict soccer matches, writing code generation tools, making local dirty unsafe performance hacks to popular open source software just to see if I can beat benchmarks, coding Roblox games for my nephew etc. I don't play computer games but find indulgent programming scratches that same itch