Taylor Spears

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Taylor Spears

Taylor Spears

@tcspears

Chancellor's Fellow @uoebusiness & @UoE_EFI. Lecturer in Financial Technology and Organizations.

Edinburgh, Scotland Katılım Şubat 2008
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Taylor Spears
Taylor Spears@tcspears·
Very happy to see this chapter, co-authored with @BondoHansen, available online. Will be of interest to anyone interested in how machine learning is transforming the cultures of financial modelling and bringing about a closer alignment with Big Tech. academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…
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Y Disassembler@loomdoop·
There is no AI economy. It loses hundreds of billions of dollars and all gains are in speculative valuation. The only one making a profit is Nvidia, and it doesn’t make anything. It resells Taiwanese chips to companies that use them to lose money.
Derek Thompson@DKThomp

New newsletter: The US economy is splitting in two. There’s a rip-roaring AI economy. And there’s a lackluster consumer economy. - Macro: Last quarter, spending on AI outpaced the growth in consumer spending - Stocks: In the last two years, ~60% of equity returns have come from “AI-related” companies, esp the hyperscalers like Microsoft and Meta (per JPM) - Micro: According to Stripe, firms on the platform that self-describe as “AI companies” are dominating revenue growt, far surpassing the growth rate of any other group

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Sam Bowman@s8mb·
I don't know how people manage without air conditioning in this weather. The idea that opening a few windows and turning a fan on is good enough is crazy. The people responsible for stopping aircon from being built into in new build housing in Britain really should be in jail.
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ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ@hamptonism·
My entire perspective on the world changed when i read and accepted this:
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John Handel@_John_Handel·
Is there a better feeling than receiving proofs?
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Benjamin@bschne·
oh god
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Dr Nigel Kellow
Dr Nigel Kellow@NigelKellow·
I’m a consultant in private practice in London and I treat patients covered by private medical insurance every day. If you think it’s better in the UK, think again. I’ll share some stories I and my colleagues see every day. After reading these please DM me or share your own 🧵
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hagaetc@hagaetc·
I’m born and raised in Norway. I think it’s a beautiful country that I would love to live/build in but right now that’s not possible. Sadly Europe as a whole is falling behind due to innovation hostile policies/culture. If you all help calling it out it might improve eventually🙏
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Rick@rickasaurus·
This meme was a small moment of enlightenment for me a long long while back
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MatLab crashes@memecrashes

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Justin T. Pickett@JustinTPickett·
(1/2) We need more attention to selection bias in qualitative research. A new study in a top sociology journal examines "how young people experience policing," but it draws only on interviews of youth in an organization devoted to abolishing the police, one that bombards...
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Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart·
This is really fascinating from @ByrneHobart. Money is a form of media
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Taylor Spears@tcspears·
Back in the day Taleb wrote a paper to criticise Nate Silver’s forecasting approach. He used arbitrage reasoning to argue that the election outcome likehihood should be close to 50/50 up until election day. I don’t have the expertise to evaluate his reasoning, but it’s interesting to see the market playing out this way: arxiv.org/pdf/1703.06351
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alz@alz_zyd_·
Strange to me how close this has been to $0.5 for like two months. Maybe one hypothesis is that there is a bunch of liquidity around 0.5: a bunch of people on both sides who are willing to bet a lot if the odds deviate significantly from 0.5, but not further than that
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Taylor Spears@tcspears·
Wild how AI is quickly replacing “the market” as the preferred deus ex machina that American elites invoke to provide a future solution to a wicked problem so that they don’t need to do the difficult work of thinking carefully and making hard tradeoffs in the present day
Tsarathustra@tsarnick

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says energy demand for AI is infinite and we are never going to meet our climate goals anyway, so we may as well bet on building AI to solve the problem

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Magdalena@_RustyRooster·
C is Latin, the root of all modern languages, the whole universe used to speak it. C++ is French, it’s Latin with fancy rules, used by the elite around the world & in specific circles. JavaScript is English, everybody speaks it, most speakers speak it poorly and others don’t bother learning another language. Java is German, it’s verbose, over-complicated and it made me cry several times. I won’t elaborate. Python is Esperanto, it was created to be so easy everyone could speak it. Its speakers could benefit from a shower once in a while. Rust is Russian, most speakers have an authoritarian left background and want to spread it worldwide.
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Taylor Spears@tcspears·
One of the weirder LLM glitches I've encountered. I asked my article summariser app to summarise a PDF with no embedded full text (PDF was just images of pages). Text extraction failed silently, and so no article text was provided to GPT-4-mini. In response, it pretended to be a rule based system by outputting a fake mad lib style template.
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Taylor Spears@tcspears

I created a Python app with Claude's help that lets you drag and drop articles into your browser for quick summaries via the OpenAI API. I'm finding it helpful for quickly developing a high-level understanding of literature in unfamiliar fields. Saves time compared to repeatedly prompting ChatGPT. github.com/tcspears/artic…

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