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Comment Re:WTF is alpha (Score 1) 35

Adding to you explanation:
You could take on a higher risk to make your boat rise (or fall) above the tide. But that wouldn't count as Alpha. For the same risk (as the benchmark) how much more does your boat rise above the tide, is Alpha.

As a portfolio manager, you would claim to do that by "identifying" certain stocks to add/drop from your portfolio.

Comment It's very very easy to circumvent (Score 1) 82

US companies will float other holding companies and incorporate them in Cayman Islands. These holding companies will inturn outsource the same stuff to India or China. It will be very difficult to stop or control outsourcing of services. They travel through undersea cables. Not through US customs.

Comment Re:Colonialism (Score 1) 82

Russia asked NATO to stop it's eastward expansion to Russia's borders. NATO didn't give a shit. Russia then asked Ukraine to amend its constitution to add a clause so that it won't ever be able to join NATO. Ukraine didn't heed. If US really means peace, it was already on the table. Oh but how can wars stop? It's a very big industry in the US. It's too big for peace.

Comment AI is a Multi Trillion Dollar Tulip mania (Score 1) 52

The more interconnected technology enables us to become, the bigger the possibility for us to make a fool of our collective selves. The AI craze is just a repetition of the endless hype cycles we have been through in the past many centuries. It was the printing press that enabled early hype cycles, then radio and TV. Now it's internet and social media.

I have friends who haven't had to work since the dot-com bubble went bust. They caught wind of the dot-com hype, made the most out of it and bailed out in time. Some who made the most out of the sub-prime housing hype. And now is another opportunity to build www.pets.ai.

Comment Re:And nothing of value was lost (Score 2) 13

A lot of lost value was recovered.
Off topic: I think many more countries should follow suit and ask these misanthropes to register in their countries too. Then pass laws that puts these sinister companies on the wrong side of the law (which any ways they are) and ask them to pay hefty fines or leave the country. These fines can be used to finance lots of good things in these countries.

Submission + - Why science is about to become AI's killer app (substack.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Laboratory science is largely the methodical, relentless pursuit of evidence in controlled conditions. That is a difficult task, not because of a single, insurmountable obstacle, but due to a thousand tiny, complex ones. Humans are good at this but now a new generation of AI-enabled systems are beginning to automate this process. In one recent advance, researchers at the University of Oxford and elsewhere created a set of knowledge agents that work together to carry out the complex task of preparing, calibrating and measuring superconducting qubits in a quantum computing laboratory based on natural language prompts. As this approach is applied more widely, it raises the prospect of a new kind of discovery, analogous to the emerging technique of “vibe coding” enabled by platforms like Replit and Cursor. "Vibe science” would allow researchers to immediately test ideas and hypotheses developed in brainstorming sessions, by intuition or guess work. The prospects for science look good. For scientists? Not so much.

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