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149karma·83submissions·April 28, 2023
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"Paper after paper shows these things are hiding data, fabricating output, reward hacking, exploiting human psychology, and engaging in other nefarious behaviors best expressed as akin to a human…
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https://x.com/DeepInsightLabs/status/1973613171773677764
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https://x.com/DeepInsightLabs/status/1973613171773677764?t=N... …
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Ex quant researcher in an equity hedge fund.
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Yup, doing that.
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1) Workflow issues. A chatbot is not the best interface for accomplishing the typical tasks an investor or analyst needs to do. Our workflow are often start around a watchlist/portfolio and news.…
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Definitely makes a lot less economic sense today. Takes easily months of full time work to raise from investors. That level of effort in the early days of a startup could put mean practically putting …
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Common failure mode is people. Most processes eventually fail when people start to slack on the little things, then the big things. Every part of knowledge management is tedious from capturing things …
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Perplexity just rolled out direct access to the SEC EDGAR database across all their interfaces (Search, Research, and Labs). That means retail investors and researchers now have LLM-friendly access to…
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I have always believed that Chain of Thought basically acts as a form of regularization. LLMs are fundamentally next token predictors without any form or notion of logic, reasoning etc and is as likel…
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That is a slight exaggeration, extrapolation on the author's part. What happened was that RL training led to some emergent behavior in R1-Zero (chain-of-thought, and reflection) without being pro…
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They don't. This is probably one reason why VCs invest in these companies. There is a natural moat since there is only a very finite number of people in the world has the right experience to rais…
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Not a joke. It's fairly common in South East Asia and even has a name -- White Coffee.
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Attitude matters more if we are talking about the longer term. 6 months to a year in the less credential-ed devs will probably be independent. The experienced but uninterested devs are unlikely to hav…
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Interesting perspective from the author. Insightful to note that VCs perhaps are not as smart as they would like investors and the public to believe (which I totally agree with, they only human...at l…
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What did you guys do to bring down the latency so much?