“Buy Google” always does the thing one expects it to do, and that is great.
@patio11
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Robinhood Gambles on RNG Technology for Millennials
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Then Robinhood repackaged them as an RNG for a gambling operation aimed at 20 somethings.
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Twitter’s Off-App Link Strategy and User Engagement Trade-offs
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(I think I intellectually understand “We don’t want to send people off-app” by Twitter but the implicit trade I am making in spending so many of my free minutes here is achieving reach for the few times a month I have an off-app link to share.)
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AI Sorting: Winners and Losers Across People and Places
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It’s not obvious the Sort is bad on net, but there are winners and losers, both in terms of people and in terms of places/institutions/areas where you can measure.
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Badass Spreads: Financial Instruments Rebranded for Marketing Appeal
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That really deserves to be some niche financial instrument, rebranded for marketing purposes, like samurai bonds. “Badass spreads collapsed earlier this week as volatility decreased following…”
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Waterloo’s Unique CS Education Model: Industry Integration Excellence
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Waterloo has a monopoly north of the border on smart geeks and a monopoly almost worldwide on “a CS education should include seriously working in industry for as many days as possible.” (My impression from working with many Waterloo grads; any errors are mine.)
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Payments and Models: Exciting Developments in AI
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This is exciting, both for what it suggests about payments and what it suggests about models.
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Automating Research Tasks with AI Prompt Memorization Techniques
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I’ve got strings tried around my finger to a) try adapting that to my common research tasks (I write the plan, you do the grunt work) and b) see if I can have it memorize that prompt and say “Kelsey-ize and execute: top 5 non-card payment methods in 20 largest economies, go.”
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Verbose Strategy Prompting Improves Language Model Performance
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Have you tried giving it a verbose strategy, or telling it to think of a verbose strategy then execute against the plan? @KelseyTuoc ‘s prompt for GeoGessr seems to observationally cause it to do very different things than a tweet-length prompt, which results in “winging it.”
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Geopolitics Constrains Remote Engineering Hiring for Financial Crime Prevention
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I was once optimistic that we’d solve a lot of financial crime by simply opening up remote engineering hiring in a few concentrated geographies but due to geopolitics/etc that now seems increasingly unlikely on medium timeframes.