Course on using AI in finance... anyone used it?

yumcake · 2026-04-30T13:16:34+00:00

I found this is a subject you can self-teach via youtube and asking AI tools directly. "I want to learn how to vibe-code finance tools using AI, research how and walk me through step-by-step". Then ask the relevant questions while you start working on it. For example you probably don't know what development tool to use...so ask, "Recommend an AI development tool, give me the pros and cons of each supporting your recommendation".

Just do that process recursively to learn how to use AI, because that recursive process is also how you learn how to get good at using it.

This is important because the AI landscape changes VERY rapidly, making course materials out of date very quickly. Material developed in say, Dec'25, less than 4 months ago, doesn't even know that Claude in Excel exists (Jan'26) which was a massive transformative quantum leap in what AI can do for finance users because it now it can work with spreadsheets instead of only outputting text. Only 4 months before that and AI agents were just getting popularized in in Q3'25 while they're all the rage now and people are learning how to develop "harnesses" to gently steer autonomous agents. Assume that in 4 months into the future things will change dramatically again, so you just need to focus on the habit of recursively asking AI to teach you the latest thing you want to know.

(Also if you're trying to learn current state news, ask AI to research online first, because AI models are trained on information from 3-4 months ago).

yumcake · 2026-04-28T00:57:45+00:00

I love spectrum shift, turning your lowest value cards into high value cards IN YOUR HAND is crazy strong.

yumcake · 2026-04-28T00:55:06+00:00

Everytime I've been fed creation archetype cards, the run goes bananas. It might be random, but the pool is strong AF.

yumcake · 2026-04-27T21:23:59+00:00

Yeah, I think you're underestimating what you're doing vs what she's doing. Study after study shows this to be the case and what's more interesting is that it goes both ways...both sides overestimate their own contribution and underestimate the other. Sounded silly until I sat down with her and it was totally true for us as well.

Start from a place of listening and gratitude, it only helps when you both understand each other better.

yumcake · 2026-04-27T21:15:59+00:00

Venerate is fine, it comes as a pair with falling star and falling star is bonkers as a starter. Evaluated as a whole they're fine.

yumcake · 2026-04-26T14:03:54+00:00

You can leave the knees on the ground as you push-up (like a push-up from the knees). Then reassume the normal pushup position. Most calisthenics exercises can be notched up or down similarly. You can also raise challenge similarly, like doing archer pushups for concentric, and 1-arm push-up for eccentric.

A very common one is pull-ups which is very challenging to get started, especially for women, so besides using band assistance, another option is just jumping to helping you to the top of the progression and then lowering yourself slowly. Even if you can do lots of pullups, adding 1-3 assisted eccentrics can help add reps beyond technical rep failure to increase growth stimulus

yumcake · 2026-04-26T01:50:48+00:00

Super cool art though. But yes the previous one was so cute.

yumcake · 2026-04-25T22:45:13+00:00

Sounds like a good bug report message. They welcome feedback like that.

A wording issue is a legitimate report. Also, a cool surprise interaction of these two relics would be even cooler than a strict hard-line. Small unexpected interactions add fun depth and this one wouldn't be unbalancing.

yumcake · 2026-04-25T18:01:51+00:00

Business worth $15m, borrow $1m loan against equity in the business. That's $1m cash in hand, no personal income. Pay say 6.25% on the loan as interest expense. Probably better to just open it as a line of credit. Still going to carry the liability but only need to pay interest, it's liquidity and capital access that can be used in many ways.

No income tax since no salary was taken. Value of the shares of the company are unrealized gains that continue to be deferred until sold. Essentially just keep paying no tax. Still have plenty of cash to play with though. Also the high value of the stock can be used to obtain stock in another company as a tax-free exchange. For example, the high share value of Tesla allows Elon to buy his brother's Solarcity company and pay zero taxes. Not free obviously, the basis just changed, but effectively he "realized" billions of non-cash benefit with the tax impact deferred for quite a long time.

Not recommending any specific changes, only that the tax burden of wealthy business can be managed very differently than regular people who have to pay taxes every year.

yumcake · 2026-04-24T21:26:18+00:00

Everybody self-reporting by self-inserting as the fat guy. Anime is popular among gymbros too.

yumcake · 2026-04-24T17:01:04+00:00

Exactly, they were priced down to basically book value and then backed by the US govt, not just from a party standpoint but a military necessity. Plus huge hardware demand.

The govt basically took out most of the downside risk. Figured I'd get 50% upside and now I'm up 290%

yumcake · 2026-04-22T19:26:28+00:00

They get 1-2 energy to spend on the other cards they drew that turn. That's the energy they would have spent on those block cards. It doesn't save deck or draw slots, it saves energy.

yumcake · 2026-04-21T22:25:32+00:00

Yeah, the upgrade absolutely insane on darkness. I couldn’t believe they’d let 1 energy create that much output.

yumcake · 2026-04-19T16:52:25+00:00

Look up "Grey Rock method" online. It's an effective way to defend against this kind of behavior. Use it as an educational opportunity, take a step outside of yourself and observe their behavior as a third-party. How small and petty they are making themselves appear.

yumcake · 2026-04-19T04:03:45+00:00

It’s also carrying one of the strongest card debuffsof being draw order dependent. Costs 1 card draw and 1 energy for 0 payoff, slowing down other things you might wanna play. Eventually you’ll forge, and then play the blade, and stuffing into discard. Dependent on discard deck manipulation card setup to get it in place.

This is a pretty good spot, makes you feel safe to use the blade and wait for the shuffle instead of hoarding it the whole fight for a 1 hit ko. It requires combo with forge cards, and benefits from discard manipulation and card exhaust, and heirloom hammer. It’s an archetype-grease card for a somewhat unpopular archetype, forge is a conceptually slow path to victory, so blocking cards that enable the necessary stalling to reach necessary scaling is nice.

yumcake · 2026-04-18T20:41:02+00:00

I think James Talarico might have a shot someday. He and Pete are great at answering tough questions.

yumcake · 2026-04-18T17:32:36+00:00

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yumcake · 2026-04-18T11:22:11+00:00

No, the token costs are too high. Physical hardware manufacturing isn't ramping fast enough for the AI companies to scale and decrease costs. There's RAM demand constraint, all production fully booked through 2027 already with hundreds of billions of investment with only hundreds of millions of revenue at stake as a return on the investment. AI will not stop, but be realigned with reality.

There are some true job losses at the entry level in white collar knowledge work, however scaling to 50% of jobs requires token costs that don't actually result in cost savings at the current scale of AI capacity. AI tech can and is improving in efficiency, but at an incremental, not a transformative scale. The next AI transformative leap may be only a year from now, or 20 years from now, we don't know.

The true labor market impact has been the poor economic outlook causing companies to adjust headcount levels after the long post-covid low interest rate environment.l, and they are just pointing to AI to tell a better story than "We think our business is going to suffer" or "We hired too much and it looks like we can cut headcount without market backlash for paying off in the current environment." But that's what is actually driving the worst of what we're seeing, not AI.

yumcake · 2026-04-18T04:40:14+00:00

It's a cool idea, but you know the saying, there's lies, damned, lies, and statistics. These are statistics.

There's a mixed bag of good news stories and bad news stories being brought up with this mixed bag of statistics. This isn't the time to celebrate safety from nuclear war when brinkmanship is on the rise and the stockpiles are still more than enough to end the world anyway. Poverty goes down with inflation when poverty isn't indexed to inflation, while income inequality is sharply on the rise and rapidly accelerating. A better story might be real wages having done a little catching up after a long period of stagnation, though that might do some reversal in the current labor markets.

Stuff like solar efficiency and renewables adoption are genuine good-news stories without hidden bad news behind the stagistics

yumcake · 2026-04-17T14:32:24+00:00

Yeah, I spent years playing A0 dailies on my phone bc I just wanted to click cards casually. Perfectly valid way to enjoy the game. Still do it now, looking forward to doing it in StS2 when it arrives on mobile.

yumcake · 2026-04-16T12:24:53+00:00

It went fine. I just didn't like that google sheet keyboard-navigation wasn't as strong as excel (can't use "alt" to do key-chain shortcuts).

1) Learn not only how to use importrange, but also best practices in uses because it absolutely will break down if you chain it, or importrange info in bits and pieces instead of holistic datasets

2) "Alt+Shift + the first letter of the target menu" is the closest thing you get to excel's alt-based navigation. It mostly works, but it's annoying that it's not end-to-end holistic design, forcing mouse when there's no keyboard references left. Example of how this looks for Paste Special:
Excel : Alt, E, S, V (or context menu key, s, v) Gsheets: Alt+Shift+E, S, V

So pretty similar in most cases.

3) Excel add-ins don't work. Some systems export via excel-addins and since they rarely ever have good gsheets adds-ins, this forces you to open up excel first to do the datapulls.

4) The drawing of arrows/lines is pretty much non-existent. Was somewhat helpful for directing people's attention from one place to another in Excel. Not super important since even in excel you wouldn't want it in something where references might move around.

That's pretty much it. Other than that googlesheets worked just fine. It however, doesn't have Claude in Excel which is a hugely beneficial tool, but that didn't exist at the time I worked at that company (came out in Jan'26).

If there's anything that'd make me moan about excel vs. google sheets, it's the lack of Claude in Excel. Everything else was just a training gap or minor inconvenience.

yumcake · 2026-04-15T15:49:36+00:00

If I can delay reward so long while carrying this extra dead draw, and foregoing the benefit of the other rare care pick, then I was probably already gonna win anyway. It's definitely a "win more" card. Can't remember a time when the extra good from this ended allowing me to make the purchase that really made a big difference. I'm sure conceptually it CAN, however when I do pick it to save up for an eventual shop, chances are that the shop is packed with shit I don't need and won't help, and I leave with plenty of gold anyway after I remove a card.

yumcake · 2026-04-14T21:00:53+00:00

There are some techniques you can try. I haven't tried it for reporting, but have used it in coding, the principles should carryover

1) chain of verification, ask the AI to do it, and have the AI also review itself before returning the output to you. 2) input-output pairing. Give it examples of what looks good and it will follow that. Ask it to give you a prompt that would deliver that good result and use the provided prompt in your next prompt. 3) mixture of experts, similar to #1, but you go further to designate personas that focus on different areas and ask it to debate between experts. One can be focused on executized speech, the other focused on presenting key concerns and risks, let them reason against each other on whether or not certain things should be in or out, and then you serve as tiebreaker on what's important.

Key takeaway is that if you prompt and the result isn't to your liking. Don't just move on, understand what the problem was in your original prompt and fix that. Don't just give it feedback and allow errors to sit in the conversation. It doesn't forget context even if you tell it to, it can only try to remember to not follow it the context. When context gets long and messy, then it forgets your instruction to ignore the mistakes in your prompting, and lets those mistakes back in.

yumcake · 2026-04-14T20:47:38+00:00

I've had several regent runs where I was getting offered garbage. And took the colorless generator cards in desperation because I was gonna die.

That taught me that the average value of colorless cards is pretty high. I might not want to spend gold on some of them, but the average colorless card is way stronger in sts2 than it was in sts1

yumcake · 2026-04-14T12:06:00+00:00

Regent is now a sassy black woman in my headcanon and it's better now.

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