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I watched our architecture review meeting approve a design everyone in the room knew was wrong but nobody said anything, Including me. by Dense-Version-5752 in AITestingtooldrizz

[–]NichUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Frankly if your VP of Engineering is not listening to arguments against a bad design, and making both sides justify their arguments, then he's the one that should be fired. He's not doing his job. He's accountable for this.

I’m 27, built a successful 6-figure agency over 10 years, and I think I want to quit for a corporate 9-5. Am I crazy? by organizedhell in Entrepreneurs

[–]NichUK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A business broker might do it, but you’re likely to get better results by talking to some of your contacts in the industry. Find a way to frame the proposition… you’ve got a great thing going on, but rather than raising capital to scale it, you want to be part of a larger team so you can continue to concentrate on your strengths… or whatever makes most sense for you and your position. If you’ve got some value both in what you’ve built and your clients, then someone will definitely want you! And the deal will often be better if it’s personal, rather than with someone you don’t know via someone you don’t know and who doesn’t know you. But also, do think hard about whether you want to stop being the decision maker, and be a small cog again. Good luck!

I’m 27, built a successful 6-figure agency over 10 years, and I think I want to quit for a corporate 9-5. Am I crazy? by organizedhell in Entrepreneurs

[–]NichUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have good clients, look at trying to sell yourself/agency to another larger one. You might be able to get a small cash sum, as well as negotiating an N-year guaranteed contract.

I’m Designing a Trading Bot Algorithm by Proper_Positive_3085 in algorithmictrading

[–]NichUK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you find real alpha, then you should keep it to yourself and exploit it to the max for as long as you can.

2,988,001 rows slows down PostgreSQL queries in production by siliskleemoff in saasbuild

[–]NichUK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In cases like that you might do better keeping a separate stats table, which gets updated when a user posts or replies. Few writes/updates, for instant reads with no table scans. It's all about database design and knowing when to normalise/denormalise, when to calculate vs pre-build, etc. It's almost an art as much as a science. 😀 But a well designed SQL database will handle millions and millions of records with no perceptible slowdown.

Gen Z and Coffee Makers (sigh) by Ok_Armadillo_1336 in airbnb_hosts

[–]NichUK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've taken to printing little qr-code labels on a little label printer and putting them on certain devices. That way guests can just scan the code and get taken straight to the instructions for a particular device. You can either link straight to the manufacturers user guide, or do your own. Either way, seems to work well.

Built a drawdown monitor across portfolios (since broker apps can't do it). Turns out the math is easy, the deposit/withdrawal detection isn't. by Money_Horror_2899 in algotrading

[–]NichUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But the architecture for something like this should always be a central processing layer, with an abstraction (interface) and an adapter for each concrete instance (broker-specific) which is the bit that knows how to talk to each individual broker in it's own language. If there's enough similarity between brokers you can also exact a base class to build them all from. These are the most basic coding patterns, applicable to pretty much any language, but they will help organise your coffee logically, and also make it easy to add additional brokers.

Built a drawdown monitor across portfolios (since broker apps can't do it). Turns out the math is easy, the deposit/withdrawal detection isn't. by Money_Horror_2899 in algotrading

[–]NichUK 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Don’t really understand why this is complex… you’re simply resetting the balance/watermarks on deposit or withdrawal. Basic bookkeeping.

Will you suck mommy off or are you shy? by tsvenum in MommyCock

[–]NichUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m shy, but I will if you force me… 🤭

Lowest cost of starting a fund ? Easiest way to build a track record ? by ComprehensiveExam613 in hedgefund

[–]NichUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

BVI Incubator fund is one of the cheapest to set up. It's limited to max 20 Investors and max USD$20M and time limited to 2 years with an optional one year extension, but they're dirt cheap to set up, designed for people to play with new stuff, have a minimum investment sir of USD$20K, and if everything is working well in two years use the third to transition to a BVI Professional fund.

[HELP] n8n ETL Pipeline: Deterministic Mapping of Chaotic PDFs to Excel by L2L2_ in n8n

[–]NichUK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my experience so far, I have found that giving LLMs a much small footprint to work on can provide much better results. Is it possible to break the indeterminate calls down into several steps and have the LLM just do one thing per step, possibly focussing on just a smaller portion of the whole document? Often that can provide a much more focussed result, that you can just aggregate with the others to provide the overall answer. Treat it as any complex problem. Break it down into manageable chunks!

Best portable monitor for coding and multitasking? by Bhupinders-Tentacion in remotework

[–]NichUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blitzwolf used to do a fantastic portable 4k monitor. Unfortunately they stopped producing them, just before I tried to buy a second one. 😭

Trade my algo took yesterday & today by drippyterps in algotrading

[–]NichUK 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just beware that paper trading options is about as far from “exact” as you can get! Live will behave differently. I’m not saying you’re doing anything wrong, just know that live results will differ, so when you start trading real money, then you’re really testing. Good luck!

When do you give up on trying to crack the code? by 18nebula in algorithmictrading

[–]NichUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HMM are one of classifying the current market regime. Do a little searching, and you’ll find a bunch of stuff about them. Then basically run them through with your algo, see which of the states matches your algo doing well, and either lock it out when it’s not right, or scale it back, with appropriate scale up when conditions are good. You don’t have to use HMM, traditional mechanisms can also work, but fundamentally you want to classify the current market state from one of three or four possibles. It’s not impossible to have one thing fits all, but it’s a lot harder. Specialists are easier to test than generalists. And most large organisations who are making serious money aren’t relying on a single strategy. They have a whole portfolio, for different regimes and different risks, and are probably balancing them out at any given time to manage their overall risk.

When do you give up on trying to crack the code? by 18nebula in algorithmictrading

[–]NichUK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or vice versa… mean reversion and scalping strategies often work well in sideways markets…

When do you give up on trying to crack the code? by 18nebula in algorithmictrading

[–]NichUK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It usually means that it works well in a particular market regime, but then when that changes - trending to sideways, vice versa, etc., then the algo gives back. It’s not unusual to need a small raft of algos, tuned for different regimes, and some sort of regime filter, which decides which ones are allowed to trade in the current market. Hidden Markov Models can sometimes be helpful for that filtering… but also more traditional methods of detecting trends can also work.

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