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Atlas22 commented on Is technical analysis just stock market astrology? alicegg.tech//2023/07/25/... · Posted by u/zer0tonin

cde-v · 3 years ago

Glad to see this is the top comment. It frustrates me to no end to see people lapping up TA like it is remotely useful when we spent our first semester on finance at university essentially disproving TA signals. It was literally Finance 102.

Atlas22 · 3 years ago

If you expected to learn useful finance at a university, you already failed as soon as you applied. If anyone there knew what they were doing financially, they wouldnt be there, and especially not teaching Finance 102. In case you were not aware, nearly all professors hate teaching lower level classes, so they naturally get forced on the worst performing professors (the ones that are closest to getting fired).

Concluding that the entirety of TA can not be useful (the Null hypothesis is true for all input signals) just from seeing that a few strawman TA in finance 102 not work is beyond absurd.

Atlas22 commented on Bringing code analysis tools to Jupyter notebooks amazon.science/blog/bring... · Posted by u/saeedesmaili

abdullahkhalids · 3 years ago

I have never shared a notebook with anyone without first restarting the kernel and pressing "run all cells". If the output is what I want to share, I share it. Otherwise I fix things, and repeat.

I am perplexed that we need tools to do something so sensible.

Atlas22 · 3 years ago

Absolutely but there are cases where doing that is not practical. For instance machine learning training tasks that can take a long time to converge (months even). There are good arguments that long running tasks should not be in a notebook but they often find themselves in notebooks regardless especially in the ML domain.

Atlas22 commented on Why Host in Kosovo? basehost.eu/... · Posted by u/asadm

peppermint_gum · 3 years ago

This is either a joke or a scam/honeypot designed to fool gullible westerners.

Kosovo definitely is a corrupt country, but it doesn't mean you don't have to keep your criminal activities on the low. If you attract the attention of the western agencies, they will absolutely go after you. This isn't Russia, they're west-aligned and they don't want to annoy their western partners too much.

Also, this site doesn't even seem to be hosted in Kosovo: https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/query?searchtext=192.71.1...

Atlas22 · 3 years ago

Any product/service directly and publicly marketed to criminals is a honeypot (or will soon be). There is no reason for a real business (legal or illegal) to prefer criminal customers in good faith as all they bring is problems.

There are many agencies around the globe that set these up and continue to operate after siezing them to catch the low hanging fruit criminals. Its a lot easier/cheaper to lure criminals expose themselves directly than it is to actually investigate/track/hunt them down. Its pretty much the quantity over quality approach.

Atlas22 commented on AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data promptideas.io/ai-loses-i... · Posted by u/justcopy

m3kw9 · 3 years ago

I would think it will make the model overfit if trained on a models own outputs

Atlas22 · 3 years ago

Its potentially an even worse problem than overfitting because of the error accumulation and undermining of the fitness functions. Its similar to asking students to create test questions to evaluate themself. As the proportion of self output questions grows, the context eventually drifts to be meaningless. In other words it leads to test "questions" like "The answer is A".

One measurement of this would be to watch the growth of probability of new models to say similar things to older model filters like "As a large language model ..."

Atlas22 commented on Ask HN: How to price your first enterprise customer? · Posted by u/secopssaas

moneywoes · 3 years ago

Can you elaborate on this please?

Why it a death sentence to sell to organizations with RFPS

Is it cause of other people putting bids? What if I want to sell to government agencies as a bootstrapped business

Thanks so much

Atlas22 · 3 years ago

Have sold to a lot of governments and large contractors. I wouldn't say its a death sentence, just different business model than most startups. Government and large orgs that send out RFPs are essentially asking for a product/service to be made and maintained specifically for them. Unless your essentially in the consulting business, its rarely worthwhile for a normal startup as it eats A LOT of time for a single customer. Government can be very lucrative if you can find the right niche but its always exceedingly painful and one of the governments favorite pastimes is completely 180ing requirements right after you complete them.

Atlas22 commented on Apple’s Vision Pro Is a $3,500 Ticket to Nowhere vice.com/en/article/m7bbg... · Posted by u/madmanweb

gjsman-1000 · 3 years ago

> Nobody will use this except super rich bored people and tech bros. It's expensive.

Funny how we are so used to groundbreaking tech being so "cheap" now. Remember when the Apple II launched at about $6,200 for the base model after inflation? Heck, the Atari 2600 cost almost $1,000 today after inflation.

Also, if you want to know how scary the inflation is, here's why your Nintendo Switch still costs $299 new: $299 in 2017 is about $369 today. You had a $70 price cut you didn't even notice.

Atlas22 · 3 years ago

The Federal Reserve: Don't worry my friend, its all just transitory due to <insert latest event>. *Slaps side of money printer* These babies can print us out of any hole!

Atlas22 commented on Google no longer automatically indexes websites? natehoffelder.com/blog/go... · Posted by u/c5karl

narrator · 3 years ago

They are probably trying to reduce "misinformation" by removing most of the web from their index. With AI, they could just ask bard, "does this website contain any information that would be considered misinformation?" and then just ban it.

If you want "misinformation," or to just search the web like it's the mid 2000s, you can use http://Yandex.com. They do a pretty good job on controversial queries. Google has gotten so political that they even have this "results are changing rapidly" page they return when there's been some new political hot topic that they haven't gotten the commissars at headquarters to weigh in on yet as to what's going to be the official narrative.[1]

[1]https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/25/22550430/google-search-re...

Atlas22 · 3 years ago

Nice try FBI. In all seriousness though, has it actually gotten so bad that yandex of all search engines is less censored? Or is it just less censored when it comes to topics controversial to the US (and not russia)? The fact that so much censoring is going on that google has a "hold on while we censor this" page is insane.

Atlas22 commented on Google no longer automatically indexes websites? natehoffelder.com/blog/go... · Posted by u/c5karl

metalforever · 3 years ago

I think it's more malicious than that. They know I use privacy tools and can't be tracked -> they can't make money on me -> bully me into not using their service.

Atlas22 · 3 years ago

It may also be part of their anticompetitive war on other browsers. I get captchas constantly in a new default Firefox profile, but not in a new default chrome profile. Spoofing user agent to recent chrome agent in Firefox makes the captchas happen far less often for me.

Atlas22 commented on Google no longer automatically indexes websites? natehoffelder.com/blog/go... · Posted by u/c5karl

29083011397778 · 3 years ago

Appalling what that says about Google, or what that says about the average search user?

Atlas22 · 3 years ago

C) All of the above

Atlas22 commented on Show HN: Automating daily reports, because fuck it gist.github.com/yzdbg/bee... · Posted by u/yzdbgd

Atlas22 · 3 years ago

I look forward to the day the manager can have a daily standup/progress report meeting oblivious to the fact that (s)he is the only one actually present... One step closer!