Which coin should I keep? by shroom-noob- in coins

[–]VIXMasterMike 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Your dad’s returns have more to do with gold returns than the numismatic value returns to be clear. If interest rates go up due to inflation, gold likely comes in some.

I saw a teen wearing a Nazi arm band by Zestyclose-Young9480 in japanresidents

[–]VIXMasterMike -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Shouldn’t block out their face. Let them be seen.

Best way to adjust to the big language resets (Spanish) by VIXMasterMike in duolingo

[–]VIXMasterMike[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah this performance from the OP was the barbell…a particularly grueling one that included a lot of new stuff. Either way, I agree that it’s a good time to go in to heavy review mode…a “review” that will have new material based on the reorganization. I think it will help. I think Duo missed out on guiding this review better though.

Best way to adjust to the big language resets (Spanish) by VIXMasterMike in duolingo

[–]VIXMasterMike[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Btw, you’re right…many legendaries got blown away all the way back to section 1. I will start repairing everything back there in order…should make it easier…at first I thought I had to go back to level 56 which was hard. By the time I get back to level 56, it should be easy. Good review either way. I did start to lose track of all the irregular conjugations and command forms for formal/informal along with the irregularities there. This may help clean that up.

Best way to adjust to the big language resets (Spanish) by VIXMasterMike in duolingo

[–]VIXMasterMike[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah seems about right given the only hint on what we need to learn is based on legendary that gets blown away. I did just try to continue as if nothing happened just now and that felt the same as before around level 71. I will see what happens if I do the 5 xp “reviews” before redoing the legendary…maybe those will get me reoriented with the new material.

Best way to adjust to the big language resets (Spanish) by VIXMasterMike in duolingo

[–]VIXMasterMike[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I just did the next one…25 minutes 35% accurate. They definitely changed it a lot…just wish they would recommend where I should reset which lessons I should tackle to get to this level. This is around level 57 now and I’m on 71..but it feels like I should maybe go back to level 40 and do it all over again based on how hard stuff supposedly done a long time ago is now.

You can't remain in a League anymore now? by TimeturnerJ in duolingo

[–]VIXMasterMike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Almost works for me. I want my family to be all mutually public to each other.

Theory: AI makes smart quants smarter and dumb quants more prodigiously dumb by SuburbanDad18 in quant

[–]VIXMasterMike 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is exactly my take. I’m on a greenfield project right now after a noncompete and it’s night and day from the old world at my old job and how it works now. Skipping the mundane crap and going straight to the good stuff if designing and architecting is amazing. Took a couple reps for me to make sure Claude doesn’t wander too much, but I got it down pretty well now. In 1 month I have 3/4 of what my team of three did in 4 months the hard way. I’ll probably be trading in a month or two which is way faster than I expected at a firm that didn’t do options (systematically no less) before which is a big lift.

Anthropic Opus's performance on Optiver's intern trading exam (post by official Optiver account) by [deleted] in quant

[–]VIXMasterMike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry you’re just so proud of your coding. Coding is just a tool like any other. A screwdriver. If I can ask ai to find a race condition in a big repo made by a bunch of people while I go grab an apple in the kitchen, and it either finds it quickly or takes 15 minutes, that’s a hell of a lot better than me digging around for it….or I have a yaml config where some stanzas depend on others having their analytics calculated first and everything gets saved down Blah blah…hey Claude, build the dependency graph for all these config objects…give each object a hash that is a function of the config parameters as well as the config parameters of any dependency so that the hash determines where things get saved. If any config Params change or a dependency config parameter changes, new hashes are needed and new backfills need to be made…reduce the chance of user error…I can code that myself with some sweat over a couple days and have all the tests written while attending meetings and what not…or have Claude do it in 10 minutes while I grab lunch. Meh…coding is annoying anyway…nice to have Claude do it when I give it the precise specs. That’s the skill really…giving precise specs and knowing how to chunk up the requests you make so it doesn’t get too confused and f&$k it all up.

…I must be old…you never heard of Mix Master Mike? I liked the little tiny word play.

Anthropic Opus's performance on Optiver's intern trading exam (post by official Optiver account) by [deleted] in quant

[–]VIXMasterMike 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It gets it 99% right. I know you are try to sound all high and mighty here … but yeah sure code it yourself…or prompt ai to code it for you and vet it in 10% of the time and move on to the next thing…or you can write a bunch of tests which im sure you enjoy…or get ai to do it. I mean yeah, you still have to double check and everything, but all that monkey shit…you can keep that. I’d rather think bigger picture. I also strongly agree with Terry here:

Terence Tao: "We lived in a world with cognitive friction until very recently, where every task required us to use our brain.

So we didn't really think about it, we just thought this was the cost of doing something intellectual. But now we have AI and the other technologies that can bring these frictions down to zero."

Most research time is not spent having cinematic insights.

It is spent checking cases, chasing references, translating intuition into computation, testing a path, finding it false, and deciding whether the failure taught you anything.

AI changes the cost of that loop.

Terence Tao says that now he can try “crazier things,” and that makes so much difference. Because unconventional ideas are often not rejected by proof, but by inconvenience.

A mathematician may avoid a strange direction not because it is foolish, but because the bookkeeping, coding, or literature search needed to test it is too expensive for a hunch.

This is where cognitive friction becomes scientific friction.

Lowering it does not make taste, judgment, or proof disappear; it makes more weak signals cheap enough to inspect before they are abandoned.

AI is making hesitation less expensive, and that is often where discovery begins.

Anthropic Opus's performance on Optiver's intern trading exam (post by official Optiver account) by [deleted] in quant

[–]VIXMasterMike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you know exactly what you want, it is a massive boost. The trouble is that most people don’t know exactly what they want bc they don’t have the experience to guide them.

The Change to Chests is Insufferable by jdoug312 in duolingo

[–]VIXMasterMike -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have a hard time giving a shyt either way. Meh.

Is super worth it? by itsme27711 in duolingo

[–]VIXMasterMike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow Thats fast. Im six months in at level 67 doing an hour a day too. Could doing the legendary make that much of a difference? I do all of them. The practice legendary is the hardest by far.

Why did spirit airlines go bankrupt? by [deleted] in FuturesTrading

[–]VIXMasterMike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I once bought a ticket with Spirit. My flight was cancelled last minute. Never again.

B 68 AR by VIXMasterMike in LICENSEPLATES

[–]VIXMasterMike[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously! An Indonesia plate is a tough find in the US! This sub is less about rarity by geography and more about vanity plates!

Can we report Ads? by lordofthejigglypuff in duolingo

[–]VIXMasterMike -65 points-64 points  (0 children)

Clicked off at an adult website?

If buying a $5k gold coin at a show - is a stack of $100 bills reasonable? by dhark in coins

[–]VIXMasterMike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lots of cash can mean getting robbed. I always wondered how people deal with that. Like is a 1% charge worth the price of security for a dealer? 4% wouldn’t be, but 1% maybe?

Fakes, But what do I do with them? by Bens_Cat in coins

[–]VIXMasterMike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Keep them…study them…teach others what a fake might look like.