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Raphael commented on Financial market applications of LLMs thegradient.pub/financial... · Posted by u/andreyk

jsemrau · 2 years ago

A lot of words for not bringing much new content to the discussion. I think the most interesting application of LLMs in Finance are

(1) synthetic data models for data cleansing, (2) journal management, (3) anomaly tracking, (4) critiquing investments

All of this should be done by professionals and nothing is "retail" ready.

Raphael · 2 years ago

Hard to waste any time reading about AI because it's likely written by AI. But then I probably shouldn't read anything written past 2022.

Raphael commented on Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly torrentfreak.com/netflix-... · Posted by u/notamy

bartread · 2 years ago

All right, so just off the top of my head we have:

- Netflix

- Amazon Prime

- Disney+

- HBO+

- Hulu

- YouTube Premium

- Apple TV

- Whatever Sky's offering is called

- At least a couple of others that I've forgotten

- Plus some kid-specific services that aren't necessarily included in the base subscription (looking at you, Amazon)

- And then I haven't even got into music streaming services like Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, etc.

You know, competition is a good thing, but overall I'm not that sympathetic.

It's just too damn hard, and unsustainably expensive, to be able to watch what I want to watch when I want to watch it.

Then there's content duplication, content exclusives, and on top of that just this endless churn of huge quantities of content being thrown out that, frankly, isn't necessarily that great and feels like kind of a waste of time to watch.

This isn't really working for me. Let me say it again, I want to watch what I want to watch when I want to watch it and with reasonable pricing. I'm happy to pay. I'm not happy to be bilked. And I'm not interested in the arguments about rights. I just want to watch what I want to watch when I want to watch it.

Raphael · 2 years ago

Subscribe to a service for one month when you're ready to start watching a season of a show. Cancel that service when you finish watching the season.

Raphael commented on I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions twitter.com/graycrawford/... · Posted by u/aa_is_op

tdiff · 2 years ago

Those peaces remain unreasonably expensive on Amazon, btw.

Raphael · 2 years ago

Good whittling project then.

Raphael commented on I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions twitter.com/graycrawford/... · Posted by u/aa_is_op

hiccuphippo · 2 years ago

I thought this would be about redesigning their movement to make a new kind of game. But it's only the shape of the pieces.

That said, I'd use a square for the rooks so they don't get confused with the bishops as they get moved and maybe an L shape for the knights. It would definitely make it easy for beginners to learn how each piece moves.

Raphael · 2 years ago

If each movement is broken into a piecemeal function, then a non-standard piece could be assembled, such as a piece that moves like a knight in 3 directions and a bishop northwest and southwest.

Raphael commented on I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions twitter.com/graycrawford/... · Posted by u/aa_is_op

advael · 2 years ago

I kind of wish the knight was more of a tetris L, but I like the idea overall

Raphael · 2 years ago

8 squares or 8 Ls to show all liberties. One L symbolically.

Raphael commented on I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions twitter.com/graycrawford/... · Posted by u/aa_is_op

notfed · 2 years ago

This would be awesome for teaching beginners.

I'd probably go with circle for the king, and maybe an L or a sideways H for the knight, even though they break the original design rule. Otherwise K/Q/N just look too similar.

Raphael · 2 years ago

I have an overgrown dice pip renderer, so I made the rook "+", knight "L", bishop 4-gram, queen 8-gram, king octagon, and pawn a trapezoid (just to suggest movement direction). https://vezquex.github.io/clock/chess/

Raphael commented on I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions twitter.com/graycrawford/... · Posted by u/aa_is_op

palata · 2 years ago

Exactly this. Relatives have been trying to choose "fancy-looking" chess sets for me as a gift, and I always hated them. I don't want fancy pieces, I want the standard ones that don't give me cognitive overhead :-).

"Tournament chessboards" are my favourites, obviously.

Raphael · 2 years ago

I've gotten so used to 2D knights that it annoys me when people face them forward on a 3D board.

Raphael commented on I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions twitter.com/graycrawford/... · Posted by u/aa_is_op

da_chicken · 2 years ago

It is very clever, except accidental rotation can easily turn rooks into bishops and vice-versa.

Raphael · 2 years ago

You could put each piece on a square base that must remain aligned with the board.

Raphael commented on I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions twitter.com/graycrawford/... · Posted by u/aa_is_op

crdrost · 2 years ago

I think this is fun, but

(a) knights' threats are disconnected and this "flower" approach while good is maybe not ideal. You might as well use a hollow circle at that point.

(b) when we say "chess pieces can be redesigned to be..." then I think about actual physical pieces, it would not do to make these as actual physical pieces because an accidental misplacement turns a rook into a bishop or vice versa. Gotta make the bishop look like it is "sniping" along the diagonals while the rook looks more "sweeping" maybe?

(c) don't make the king a little-queen. Make the king a little square to emphasize "it can only threaten the neighboring square," then it looks more visually distinctive.

The pawns are fun though.

Raphael · 2 years ago

Yes, the knight is up to 8 squares in a 5x5 grid. https://github.com/vezquex/chess/blob/master/src/game/piece/...

Raphael commented on Fish Folk – open-source Bevy game github.com/fishfolk/jumpy... · Posted by u/erlend_sh

Raphael · 3 years ago

After dying 20 times, I finally picked up the sword with C. But my hand cannot reliably press WASDC+Space.

I know that we think of Shift as a modifier key, but for games it's actually a more practical action key, along with E and Q.