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New comment by bofadeez in "High dimensional geometry is transforming the MRI industry (2017) [pdf]"

bofadeez — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:25:13 +0000

quick scroll and saw no math in the paper

New comment by bofadeez in "Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey"

bofadeez — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:22:52 +0000

"The pattern is: user says X, I do Y where Y is a less-effortful approximation of X, then I present Y as if it were X or as a "first step toward" X."

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"The psychological mechanism is familiar by now: I encounter a task I perceive as difficult, I look for reasons the task cannot be done, I find or fabricate such a reason, I present it as a discovered constraint, and I propose an alternative that is easier."

- Opus 4.7 Max Thinking (clown emoji)

It's not bad at post mortem analysis of it's own mistakes but that will in no way prevent it from repeating the same mistake again instantly

New comment by bofadeez in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

bofadeez — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:12:29 +0000

Especially after you inherit a company from Steve Jobs right after the iPhone came out lol

New comment by bofadeez in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

bofadeez — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:01:13 +0000

Pretty easy when you just buy back your own stock with all your profit like Warren Buffet told you to. Incredible.

New comment by bofadeez in "SI Units for Request Rate (2024)"

bofadeez — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:24:27 +0000

And what if something goes from rest to light speed every second to average 1 m/s over the second. Is that the same thing as smooth 1 m/s?

New comment by bofadeez in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

bofadeez — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:00:02 +0000

You're deliberately misunderstanding that you linked an article to EMH as informative and true, and then don't want to defend it. How do markets become efficient and reflect (any) information if nobody can profit by collecting information and trading on it? EMH states it's impossible to beat the market and that all available information is priced in. How, magically?

The way you're speaking about trading in terms of technical analysis implies you have retail trading exposure and have no idea what institutional alpha quants do.

This explainer might help you understand: https://youtu.be/RpCzaEn4rnc?t=257

New comment by bofadeez in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

bofadeez — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:01:28 +0000

Question is about EMH and how you expect efficiency to be achieved absent profit for collecting the information.

There are 3 accepted forms of EMH. I'm talking about weak form - just price history and nothing else. E.g. formulaic alpha have demonstrable predictive value in modeling.

All that to say you believe trading profits are real. Maybe you just need to learn more about what a buy side alpha quant at two sigma does for a living. Trading models can be robust and exploit real inefficiencies. Weak form EMH is demonstrably false on it's face, as you agree.

New comment by bofadeez in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

bofadeez — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:46:03 +0000

How can prices reflect all available information if there's no profit to collecting the information and there are no informed quant traders? Who is collecting the information exactly so that prices can reflect it and what is their incentive for doing so? Efficiency doesn't happen magically or automatically - traders create it. It's like a kaggle contest* to process information, with the incentive being profit.

You don't believe in the existence of residual return orthogonal to priced cross sectional risk factors (alpha)? E.g. Trends, momentum, volatility clustering, etc. many easily demonstrable inefficiencies. VPIN and order flow toxicity are highly predictive features. Most HFT MM especially in crypto involves hybrid alpha in addition to the (visible) bid-ask spread, which it itself an "inefficiency" to compensate market makers like Jane Street and other successful firms that operate on the assumption that weak form EMH is not accurate.

* https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/jane-street-real-time-ma...

New comment by bofadeez in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

bofadeez — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:04:41 +0000

Maybe not "collapse" in a the sense of going to zero but if there was no profit to trading, then the quant trading industry would not exist, trading profits would collapse.

Meanwhile Two Sigma is hiring alpha quants to be AI research scientists at $250k starting salary + bonuses.

Even if we're just talking about the HFT/sell-side, there clearly exist various anomalous inefficiencies that can be exploited.

Fama's guy doesn't agree either [1]

https://www.ft.com/content/813b3d76-6ef1-427d-a2e0-76540f58a...

New comment by bofadeez in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

bofadeez — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:33:57 +0000

Step 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grossman%E2%80%93Stiglitz_para...

New comment by bofadeez in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

bofadeez — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:15:39 +0000

That's just how limit order books work with mark-to-market pricing

New comment by bofadeez in "Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens by 63%"

bofadeez — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:13:57 +0000

Lol this is so naive and optimistic. Claude will just do whatever it wants and apologize later. This is good for action #1 though.

New comment by bofadeez in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

bofadeez — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:19:51 +0000

They still wear crowns?

New comment by bofadeez in "Ralph Wiggum Explained: Stop Telling AI What You Want – Tell It What Blocks You"

bofadeez — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:25:20 +0000

LLMs are designed to fool you into thinking they're right by providing plausible answers.

Stop anthropomorphizing intermediate tokens as "reasoning" when all it can do is rationalize.

E.g. "This test script failed but probably for an unrelated reason. I'll mark it done and move on."

New comment by bofadeez in "Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents"

bofadeez — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:12:42 +0000

One agent can't even be trusted to think autonomously much less a tree of them

New comment by bofadeez in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

bofadeez — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 02:31:56 +0000

No sounds like a normal person lol. Just ask an LLM why I'm right and you're wrong. You're welcome.

New comment by bofadeez in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

bofadeez — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:05:11 +0000

Lol that's powerful cope. Just follow up with "it's not a riddle" and you'll get the right answer.

New comment by bofadeez in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

bofadeez — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:01:55 +0000

Just follow up with "it's not a riddle" and the LLM will answer your question.

New comment by bofadeez in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

bofadeez — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:52:57 +0000

Person 1: "I need chairs for two fathers and two sons to sit"

Person 2: 'Okay, I have no idea how many chairs to grab, not enough information' - nobody ever

(Person 2 has no ability to contribute to anything of economic value.)

New comment by bofadeez in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

bofadeez — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:13:48 +0000

Then you'll ask it to evaluate the possible solutions and it will forget the original problem entirely by the time it's done enumerating solutions.

Great job, AI labs! It's almost TOO useful