• Cubes@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Man, this must just be a right of passage for working as a SWE or MLE at this point. I’ve heard this pitch from coworkers/managers more than once.

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      1 year ago

      It seems like the obvious choice. There is an abundance of data, systems in place for automating trades, and a lot of money in play. It just seems like if it was possible, it would already have been done by the big players or these existing robo-investors… not some guy who Googled “how to make AI”.

      On top of that his idea was deeply flawed. I asked about risk tolerance and he said on the fly they could adjust that. Then I asked how he was going to do that and break out the funds (as be planned to have all the investors in one giant pool), and it was crickets.