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Re:Show HN: I built an AI tool to analyze SEC filings the mi... by Etheryte on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @05:30PM (#42312319)
This is a good example of Dunning-Kruger, no offense. Sentiment analysis has been used as a tool to guide investments since the late 90s and there are companies out there who have been doing it for decades. LLMs didn't really break any new ground here, they just made this more accessible for the masses.
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Re:Show HN: I built an AI tool to analyze SEC filings the mi... by petesergeant on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @05:39PM (#42312408)
> Sentiment analysis has been used as a tool ... since the late 90s

Yes!

> LLMs didn't really break any new ground here

I don't think this is true. LLMs are a gigantic leap forward from any traditional sentiment analysis I've seen. Pre-2013, bag-of-words and TF-IDF were still state of the art. Call me out if you think I'm wrong, but hand-waving away the transformative power of LLMs here because we had some sentiment analysis approaches before seems unfair.

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Re:Show HN: I built an AI tool to analyze SEC filings the mi... by Kiro on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @02:01AM (#42315083)
Sounds like you are the one suffering from Dunning-Kruger. Just check out one of the reports and you will see that it's lots more than just "sentiment analysis", and much more dynamic.
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