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jasmes commented on Show HN: Investment and Retirement planner using Monte-Carlo Simulations   budgetflow.cc/landing/wea... · Posted by u/mkrd
jasmes · 8 months ago
This’ll sound harsh: Your landing page doesn’t do a great job of telling me why I want to use your tool. How is the simulation done? Do you mean you account for common historic market trends or just added some hysteresis? Is it just a pretty coat of paint on an interest rate tracker?

Is this open source? If I can’t audit the code, and it isn’t from my bank, a program is not getting my financial information.

Put privacy front and center on the homepage. Put why it’s better than google sheets or excel.

jasmes commented on Show HN: I built a website that explains any difficult concept in seconds   nodsgy.com/... · Posted by u/bames_jond
satisfice · 8 months ago
I don’t understand how any educated man can take a site like this seriously.

AI fanboys are the most easily impressed of all humans.

jasmes · 8 months ago
I think they're mostly just hype junkies and a few true believers. They're a lot like the crypto people. "Sure it doesn't really actually entirely work for what we want it to but SOMEDAY!"
jasmes commented on Show HN: I built a website that explains any difficult concept in seconds   nodsgy.com/... · Posted by u/bames_jond
CJefferson · 8 months ago
I’m going to be mean, because AI needs it.

There is not even basic comments on the main page along “don’t trust AI, be sure to verify”, like you see on chat GPT. I tried it on a course I teach and it’s producing wrong statements.

Could I sue if this produced clear nonsense and I acted on that? Are you willing to put your money where your mouth is, and guarantee this will be right (and not just a money back guarantee, that just let you keep the money of people who don’t check).

I feel like I should be able to hold a company responsible for just sending me lies.

jasmes · 8 months ago
If it was an accounting firm doing an audit and sending you lies, then yeah you could hold them responsible. If an OTC drug had incorrect labeling and misinformed you, you'd be able to hold them responsible.

If you ask an AI a question and it replies with incorrect information... dunno. Probably would be argued that it is similar to reading a forum post of incorrect information or picking the wrong book to research a topic. Kinda on you if you're doing the research.

jasmes commented on Superbacked (secrets management) is now free   superbacked.com/faq/you-a... · Posted by u/otoburb
jasmes · 8 months ago
You really should use a law firm to manage anything you want passed on after you die.

Trying to come up with your own solution to this is a very "roll your own auth" approach to such an important thing.

jasmes commented on Games    · Posted by u/davesaguirre
jasmes · 8 months ago
Quite.
jasmes commented on Merry Christmas    · Posted by u/aabiji
jasmes · 8 months ago
<3
jasmes commented on What's the best project management tool you have ever used?    · Posted by u/Luccacat
jasmes · 8 months ago
A whiteboard and post-its.

Not being sarcastic.

jasmes commented on $250 remaining of L&D budget – what to spend on?    · Posted by u/czatt
jasmes · 8 months ago
You could poke around with Harvard's product dev/strat sim thing: https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/7701-HTM-ENG

If you wanna try a bunch of topics you can check out Brilliant.org.

u/jasmes

KarmaCake day59March 25, 2021View Original