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Re:Show HN: Blotter – Social Platform for Traders on Friday September 13, 2024 @09:48PM (#41536861)
Owner here: We are trying to build a social platform for traders where we'll track everything a trader shares, to create more transparency.
Developer here: I think AI is great tool to parse large amounts of financial documents and extract insights from them. This is a tool towards that end.

I also think the best information one can find is in SEC reports like 10Q 10K, which is the main source of analysis here.

This is so cool.
Re:Sam Altman doesn't care about you on Monday August 26, 2024 @01:24AM (#41354240)
Don't understand all this hate lately. No CEO of any of these big companies cares about me, not even remotely.

OpenAI sped up the democratization of LLMs by atleast a few years, and although that's mostly thanks to their engineers, I'd like to thank Altman as well.

I'm a software engineer and so much of my work has gotten significantly easier because of OpenAI.

Same feedback as a bunch of other users, super slow.

I opened the demo link but it didn't load for 25 seconds, so closing the website now.

Re:Intel sells stake in chip designer Arm Holdings on Friday August 16, 2024 @08:04AM (#41265560)
TIL that Intel had the opportunity to invest in OpenAI! Sheesh.
Just want to say, this is pretty cool.
I think a single turn app like this one might not be very beneficial. I've used LLMs to brainstorm startup ideas and they almost never are creative enough.

I think the benefit of LLMs here is doing market research, finding risk, asking questions, etc. Someone showed a pretty cool demo of Perplexity doing some of this stuff recently.

I was recently at a non-AI security conference and was passing through a hallway. Heard the term AI like 10 times in 10 minutes.

Everytime that happens, I go back to that meme that got created after Google's IO when Sundar Pichai said "ai, ai, ai..." like 113 times.

I didn't build a game but I was incredibly excited to see if neural networks could work in financial markets, so built a few systems to trade using price data.

Spoiler alert: they absolutely do not work in their vanilla form (every article that says they do is wrong). But it was a good learning experience.