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mempko commented on Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union   rockpapershotgun.com/id-s... · Posted by u/simjue
nitwit005 · 5 days ago
With a factory, the owner has to deal with the cost of all the late or canceled deliveries. With farms, the crops wither on the vines.

There's not really an equivalent with most service industries. Software engineers don't even need to be around for the programs to keep running.

mempko · 5 days ago
You do realize that, um, software need hardware. And also security upgrades often require software engineers. And uh, software maintenance is what engineers actually do most of the time.
mempko commented on We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months   aitradearena.com/research... · Posted by u/cheeseblubber
mempko · 12 days ago
The stats are abysmal. What's the MDD compared to S&P 500. What is the Sortino? What are the confidence intervals for all the stats? Number of trades? So many questions....
mempko commented on YesNotice   infinitedigits.co/docs/so... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
IncreasePosts · 15 days ago
Sure - I guess what I was asking is how to make sure everything is okay in the unstructured -> structured conversion.

"My name is John and I'm 40 years old" -> {name:"John", age:40}

How can you gain confidence that the AI doesn't spit out {name:"John", age:41}

The only thing I do currently is have a massive test suite to gain some statistical confidence it works, but I worry about situations like a person having a rare unicode character in their name (not to even speak of people intentionally trying to trick the system)

mempko · 15 days ago
Don't have the AI do the data parsing. Have the AI write a parser and have the parser do the parsing. Think about how a person would parse vasts amounts of data. They write a parser to do it. Devil is of course in the details.
mempko commented on YesNotice   infinitedigits.co/docs/so... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
IncreasePosts · 15 days ago
I agree about the importance of that use case, but how do you confirm that the AI doesn't modify the data in some unwarranted manner during the process?
mempko · 15 days ago
Great question! Don't use AI to process the data, especially when a computer can do the work :-). AI is good at taking unstructured data and structuring it. Computers are great at computing.

Here is an example of Google's AI failing

https://www.google.com/search?q=is+2026+next+year

Google screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/FOT4aDF

ChatGPT also fails: https://imgur.com/a/mb3rRgZ

and here is the ThetaEdge result: https://imgur.com/a/ZAZZgiR

mempko commented on YesNotice   infinitedigits.co/docs/so... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
mempko · 15 days ago
This is really cool! I always believed one valuable use case for AI is to take unstructured data and structure it.

I am building ThetaEdge (https://thetaedge.ai) which is in Beta now. We built a similar feature but specific to investing and markets. You get notified when certain market things you care about happen like 'Alert me when nvidia releases a new product' or 'tell me when a 20 delta call for Apple is more than $1'.

The challenge of building something like this is consistency and accuracy which is important in finance.

Awesome to see a clean focused product like YesNotice with a very clear utility.

mempko commented on Blender 5.0   blender.org/download/rele... · Posted by u/FrostKiwi
1220512064 · a month ago
I've been using blender since at least 2010; it's so exciting to see how much progress it's making.

I'm very excited to see the addition of structs and closures/higher-order functions to blender nodes! (I've also glanced at the shader compiler they're using to lower it to GLSL; neat stuff!) Not only is this practically going to be helpful, the PL researcher in me is tickled by seeing these features get added to a graphical programming language.

If you haven't heard of Blender before, or if you think AI will replace all the work done in it, fair enough. But I'd still strongly suggest looking into what it is and how it works.

mempko · a month ago
I've used blender since 1999. It's my favorite open source software. Simply amazing
mempko commented on SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes   sailfishos.org/info/... · Posted by u/ForHackernews
ho_schi · 2 months ago
SailfishOS and the Jolla One were good (awesome usability) But the integration of Android was a horribly failure. It is like WINE, half working applications preventing native ports of quality. I left the boat.

After that Jolla failed with the tablet. Then they didn’t deliver a successor device for Jolla One and provided SailfishOS only as aftermarket OS. You remember the Android problem from above? The hardware of others, without official support? That is calling for problems.

And to make everything worse Jolla started a cooperation with Russia in 2015. According to Wikipedia they quit it in 2021.

Hint about compatibility and APIs

Never try to be compatible to an environment which doesn’t want to maintain interoperability with you.

mempko · 2 months ago
The android support improved a lot such that all the apps I used worked there.
mempko commented on The decline of deviance   experimental-history.com/... · Posted by u/zdw
mempko · 2 months ago
Seems to correlate with the increase and decline of lead poisoning. I guess the plus side of lead poisoning was an interesting world. We need more deviants than ever now, given the authoritarian push we are seeing. Too many obey.
mempko commented on NextSilicon reveals new processor chip in challenge to Intel, AMD   reuters.com/business/next... · Posted by u/simojo
mempko · 2 months ago
I'm personally boycotting Israeli companies for obvious reasons.

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