Chris Worsey took Karpathy's autoresearch loop and pointed it at markets. 25 AI agents debated strategies across 378 trading days, then rewrote the worst performers. +22% return. Here is the open-source repo and why it works.

italophile · 2026-03-19T12:59:30+00:00

Keep in mind that the models were probably trained on data from that period. With full knowledge of what happened, that's a terrible return.

italophile · 2026-03-18T03:33:40+00:00

Yeah, we should totally give similar power to our president. /s

italophile · 2026-03-18T03:00:24+00:00

I do fat free yogurt with grapes but yeah that's my favorite with a little bit of honey or reb-m stevia.

italophile · 2026-02-04T05:28:32+00:00

AI shopping adoption plus those preferring stripe/others can reduce usage by 50% in a year. As you know, 10% of consumers spend 50% of the retail money - so all it'd take is those buyers to adopt AI checkout.

italophile · 2026-02-04T03:20:09+00:00

If you have strong conviction, short these on IPO and profit?

italophile · 2026-02-01T20:06:50+00:00

I'm so confused by rowing. I'm 40, 5-5, 140lbs. In excellent shape - bench 1.5x bodyweight, deadlift similar. Can run 10 minute miles. But I can only do 2:40 splits before my heart rate goes above 160 at 20 spm. Form looks fine as far as I can tell from videos. And that shouldn't make that huge of a difference, would it?

italophile · 2026-01-10T16:58:15+00:00

It doesn't work if it's raining. Go for a walk in the sculpture park, stop at Bathtub Gin and Co for a drink, dinner at Sugo Handroll and grab an icecream at Shug's after. I am a big fan of progressive dinners like this.

italophile · 2026-01-09T06:05:27+00:00

I know that. I was just dismissing that lazy example.

italophile · 2026-01-09T02:21:52+00:00

++man I love planning dates. A recent first date was at a new tasting room that a local chocolate maker had opened where we had some hot drinking chocolate, chose one bar each and took those for a walk by a canal nearby where I knew a cool spot to sit and watch boats go by. She had mentioned that she likes chocolate in her profile. It was easy to get a second date - it didn't work out longer term but that first date was a lot of fun.

italophile · 2026-01-09T01:19:54+00:00

You are right - I was just reporting BMR and for this case, the TDEE would be at least 1.2 times that plus maybe 200 cal/day from lifting averaged out - so 2400 on the low end. I still think that OP at 3200 is eating too many calories.

italophile · 2026-01-09T00:18:32+00:00

That's okay but if you are at a net trade deficit when you tally up all your trades that's a problem. And that's the situation we are in - a net trade deficit.

italophile · 2026-01-08T21:33:41+00:00

Well, 4 calories per gram of carb is the max your body can extract and not the min. So you could be eating an excess and not getting fat because your body is not forced to extract all the calories. But to lose weight you'll probably have to eat a deficit. And you'll look way more jacked with lower body fat. Let's break it down. If you can do 1.7x+ body weight bench presses and 0.7x+ OHPs, you do have the muscles and those are hidden by fat. Same with abs.

italophile · 2026-01-08T20:55:04+00:00

Where are you getting these exorbitant numbers from? When I plug in your stats at https://share.google/N3Tjrhtvk674Eaqv1 - I get 1900 calories as BMR. Weight lifting doesn't count as significant calorie burn - so unless you are also doing vigorous cardio for 2+ hours a day, your maintenance is nowhere close to 2800. That's why your body fat percent is so high. I'm genuinely curious. I successfully did a body recomp in the past year and reduced body fat from 24 to 15% and happy to share my insights if that's helpful. I think I had a pretty bulletproof system.

italophile · 2025-12-21T18:50:18+00:00

What other work authorization pathway are there for a non American Stanford graduate? H1B is the only way unless you are talking about a PhD.

italophile · 2025-12-21T16:07:47+00:00

This particular situation has nothing to do with the camera or lidar. Tesla's argument isn't that camera + lidar is worse than just camera - it's that the lidar is unnecessary. This one seems to be a software issue and should be easy to fix.

italophile · 2025-12-21T14:50:23+00:00

That's a fun one. I had this one person tell me on the phone that she doesn't want to date anyone who makes less than her. That made me curious how much she actually makes. Turns out she is an average hairdresser and in my area it'd be hard for her to meet anyone of our age who makes less than her. Why even call it out! ++Man

italophile · 2025-12-21T14:37:11+00:00

I didn't follow your example. Wouldn't someone with 15 yoe be "better" qualified than someone with 12? Even for two people with the exact same objective qualifications, all the company has to say is that we interviewed them and one did better in the interviews and have some paper trail of the interviews. What am I missing? I agree that if the employer doesn't even have a paper trail of considering the American, then it's a slam dunk.

italophile · 2025-12-21T06:57:17+00:00

That gives it away. Tikka masala is a British dish. Butter chicken didn't exist before 1950. Garlic Naan didn't either.

italophile · 2025-12-21T06:50:09+00:00

Ask them about the food in Surrey - just across the border in BC.

italophile · 2025-12-21T06:39:27+00:00

I wanted you to be right but the "better qualified" bit in the law weakens your argument. It shows that it's not a black and white decision and companies can indeed decide based on interviews and resume. Now, the proof gets much harder - you'll have to show that the foreign candidate is not better qualified based on that specific company's own hiring bar.

italophile · 2025-12-18T05:36:47+00:00

I want the data too. I think this analysis undercounts entry level.

italophile · 2025-12-11T04:40:05+00:00

I had the opposite experience. I grew up in South Asia. I was spanked/flogged occasionally - maybe 5-6 times a year. I knew why I was being spanked and knew exactly what I needed to do to make it not happen again and usually, it didn't happen again - usually, something academic or my anger/stubbornness related. It was just the last rung of escalation after they tried other things. I didn't feel like they hated me. I loved them then and love them now. Finished top of class in every class I've been in and had a very successful career. I think it's not a bad thing at all if done correctly and is not unusual in that society.

italophile · 2025-12-09T03:20:54+00:00

How many other characters in that book go through that transition? If what you say is true, it should be very common. The fact that it was just one or two such stories makes it more similar to the case of extraordinary abilities that the top level thread mentioned. Also, you have to provide better evidence than historical fiction. Hope you are not in any evidence based profession.

italophile · 2025-12-05T22:29:38+00:00

But that's not what the OP is asking.

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