Joel Nelson

price trade automate 🔄 I mute/block content slop🚮

[Joel Nelson @sysliquid]

@badlogicgames Totally

[Joel Nelson @sysliquid]

@pvncher Been waiting for this

[Joel Nelson @sysliquid]

@lefthanddraft Also seems to love the word ontology. Not made up but seems to love to whip it out any chance it gets.

[Maricopa County @maricopacounty]

Congratulations, you did it! You made it through another Arizona summer!

[Klaas @forgebitz]

if you have never written code before AI

you don't know what being "locked in" or "in the flow" means

it's magical, 10+ hour sessions, you and code, nothing else

vibe coding just doesn't give you that

[Wyatt Walls @lefthanddraft]

I think I broke it

[FFmpeg @FFmpeg]

It's important to remember that "technology influencers" can be bad role models. Many encourage people to be "fans of technology" instead of actual developers of technology.

Hot takes are easy, writing good code is not.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'

[Joel Nelson @sysliquid]

@scottlincicome It’s common in Asia especially Japan to bring this kind of thing back for your coworkers after a trip abroad. A bag like that comes in handy if you didn’t have time or were too lazy to find something more interesting.

[Molly White @molly0xFFF]

every damn time

[Clifford Asness @CliffordAsness]

The market absolutely needs short-sellers and those yelling about them are almost always yelling self-serving conspiracy theory nonsense (see Owen Lamont’s work for example). Those seeking to restrict them are generally doing worse.

But short-sellers do not have to be net short. Equitizing short insights is allowed. Being short the equity risk premium is a hard way to prosper long term (and has been particularly hard in this long-running equity bull market).

I believe the legendary @RealJimChanos excelled at this for decades (Jim?).

[Joel Nelson @sysliquid]

@prof_g @GoogleAI It’s quite an aggressive nanny. I tried to get it to help me check my Japanese for a condolence letter and it refused saying something like “why don’t you try something more upbeat”.

[maya benowitz 🕰️ @cosmicfibretion]

When I left physics for a career as a quant on Wall Street it became clear after a couple years that the loudest most uncouth traders have perfected the art of confident incompetence and built their career on luck.

[Daniel Litt @littmath]

gpt4 seems to understand the Monty Hall problem a bit *too* well

[Arda Göreci @ArdaGoreci]

🚀Excited to announce: Open-source AlphaFold3 implementation! 🚀

I am thrilled to announce one of the models we have been building for the last 8-weeks at Ligo - an open-source implementation of DeepMind’s frontier model, AlphaFold3! Here’s what we have learned, a thread (1/11):

[Nemo @thecaptain_nemo]

new SWEs at the big AI companies

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

Now imagine this AI model doesn’t work for you. Imagine it listens to your conversations but it works for and reports to the police. That’s where the EU is going.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

@martin_casado Not really.

[Daniel Litt @littmath]

Alice and Bob each pick integers uniformly at random between 1 and 10^1000000. Alice wins if their two integers have a prime factor in common; Bob wins if they don’t. Who is more likely to win?