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Comment · 2 years ago
I work at a trading firm. RIP to the GOAT, the god of quants.Reading about him and RenTec, back in high school, was one of the first things that got me attracted to the field.
Comment · 3 years ago
Any good resources to learn about that?
Comment · 3 years ago
Hope they fire SVB UK's head of risk assessment. They definitely don't want total wokesters like her running things.
Comment · 3 years ago
What does my post have to do with Hindus having/not having a land of their own?
Comment · 3 years ago
Not all of us Indians are Hindus and have some caste assigned to us.
Comment · 3 years ago
Most immigration to the US was white based till 1965.
Comment · 3 years ago
The issue is that Americans with half-baked knowledge think that all Indians have a caste assigned to them, or that India has a national level caste allocation policy. For Americans who hate India, this gives them more ammo to hate us.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for sharing that with me.

I'd like to respond to this OP (don't have a Twitter account):

https://twitter.com/mSanterre/status/1622015664042164224

I actually have done one of those things. I work in HFT building execution systems for options market making :)

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
My bad! Should've said "water is wet" or maybe run my response through ChatGPT, maybe that'd have caught it and offered a replacement!
Comment · 3 years ago
My point exactly.

If I interpret OP's statement correctly, that chatGPT can build complex systems from scratch in 10 years. Then according to that statement, the only adaptation is to choose a new career because it has made almost all SWE jobs go the way of the dinosaurs.

Comment · 3 years ago
So, a LLM, trained extensively on StackOverflow and other data (possibly the plethora of LC solutions out there), is fed a bunch of LC questions and spits out the correct solutions? In other news, water is blue.

It is one thing to train an AI on megatons of data, for questions which have solutions. The day ChatGPT can build a highly scalable system from scratch, or an ultra-low latency trading system that beats the competition, or find bugs in the Linux kernel and solve them; then I will worry.

Till then, these headlines are advertising for Open AI, for people who don't understand software or systems, or are trash engineers. The rest of us aren't going to care that much.

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