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Do you trade stocks? Do you have an active plan to manage risk? If you answer "yes" to both of the above questions, how important would you say your risk management plan is to either the success or failure of your trading activity? Would you say the success of your trading activity is very dependent on your risk management plan? Interested in my own answers to each of these questions? Send me a direct message. If I determine your message is legitimate, I will keenly reply to you with my own answers. PS: please be sure to share your answers with me. Thanks #stocktrading #securitiestrading #riskmanagement

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I am doing some extensive refresh on my programming skills for the last 2-3 weeks. I wanted to share the following observation in the hopes others intending to use one of today's humanlike conversation chatbots as a software programming mentor might benefit from my own experience: While I was able to successfully create the postgresql database I aimed for, the whole process included a lot of very costly sidetracks (timewise). Despite hitting big obstacles (the toughest of them proved to be getting Docker working correctly in a WSL environment where Debian is the Linux OS) Google Gemini Advanced displayed what I would figuratively call obsessive behavior. In other words, the tool would not drop an effort; rather, it kept offering remedies when remedies clearly were not working. After spending hours butting up on these obstacles I finally made progress by directing the tool (Google Gemini Advanced) to work on my priorities, not an implicit priority to remove obstacles. I have to wonder how absolutely novice citizen developers would respond if they inadvertently found themselves looping around the same points, endlessly. If you are interested in more specifics about my experience, please direct message me. Thanks Please no spammers, bots, pitches, or the like. I will only respond to what I consider to be legitimate comments or requests to otherwise engage with me. #citizendevelopers #geminiadvanced #softwareprogramming

As someone with a firm belief in the value of empirical observation and conclusion I decided it would be worth sharing on my feed on LinkedIn the following point: Is the interest form investors and trader in chatbots providing human-like communication overdone, broadly speaking, when the application is software coding help for citizen developers? No. I spent the last two days on tasks I have not grappled with since 2003 - a) enabling sophisticated features of the Windows 10 Pro OS of one our computers b) installing a Linux distribution and demonstrating full, healthy, functionality c) equipping the computer with shell communications with a remote server utilizing a sophisticated authentication approach d) installing important information on the computer for seamless point to point data communication I completed a-d with complete success with no recourse to either human coaching/training/mentoring, nor contracting for any paid help getting the above tasks done. But I did make extensive use of both ChatGPT Premium and Gemini Advanced to compete each of the task. An important additional conclusion: Gemini Advanced proved much more helpful than ChatGPT Premium. Readers with an interest in learning specific details of my experience using each of these chatbots should message me. #generativeai #chatgpt #geminiadvanced #codinghelp

Reporters do well when the limit their prose to reporting. They also do well when they remain "information agnostic". The question of whether or not Yann LeCun's thinking cuts against the grain of Wall Street thinking, or the positions taken by other AI "authorities" are a matter of opinion - not reporting. #llms #gptmodels #yannlecun https://lnkd.in/eNmewWFg

You.com has deployed Google Gemini Pro 1.5 Flash. I have just engaged with this LLM on the topic of industrial automation jobs within the range of its capabilities. Please use the following link to review the chat: https://lnkd.in/eypFFxrj #industrialautomation #llms #googlegeminipro

Readers wondering about the path forward for businesses doing the job of responding to human requests for support, information, and more with a fixed set of large language models (LLMs) for personnel employed by very large organizations in the public and private sectors should take note of news, today, Scale AI has successfully closed a Series F funding round at $13.8B valuation: https://lnkd.in/eSFiAJgA To put it bluntly, what will work for personal assistants targeted to consumers and, perhaps, individuals working for these very large organizations will probably not succeed over the long term for efforts to drive enterprise-wide adoption. The custom imperative is simply too pressing. How much more useful might any of these tools be when the data repositories of very large organizations become available for these models? I think the answer is "quite a bit". From the roster of businesses sinking more cash into Scale AI, I do not think I am alone in this opinion. #llms #customdevelopment #enterprisesoftware #scaleai

Intel investors looking for clues a pivot from "build our own CPUs" to an authentic foundry (customer agnostic) business should take note of news, today, Intel has sunk cash into Scale AI Inc. Noticeably absent from the list of mentioned investors? TSMC. The severe deflation in Intel's stock price reflects deep Wall Street skepticism on the question of how serious Intel's pivot might actually be. This interpretation of news is reinforced by more news: Microsoft debuted its Azure Cobalt CPU, built by Intel's 18a Wafer foundry business. Microsoft, the stock, is up by 1.08% per my last check. Intel, the stock? Down by 1.38%. #stockmarket #intel #microsoft https://lnkd.in/er9KuVy7

Readers skeptical a decision to build a for-profit business within a not-for-profit organization is a fatally flawed one, need only reflect on the implications of Jan Leike's alleged recent post to X: https://lnkd.in/exYddXiQ   When this decision becomes unacceptably expensive (what will it take for OpenAI to replace Leike and Ilya Sutskever?), the board of directors should be calling for restructuring, should they not? Where do big investors like Khosla Ventures and Microsoft find themselves on this topic, despite their inability to effect any changes whatsoever since they do not have voting rights, nor equity?   #businessstructure #notforprofitbusiness #openai #humanresources

In the evolution of very large businesses, as publicly traded investment vehicles, increasing the number of markets where a given business competes is an option - even when further increases require a departure from jobs making sense, to jobs almost entirely nonsensical given a business' core brand.   Examples of the latter include GE Capital and GMAC.   Notably, both core businesses exited both of these "extra" revenue producers.   Apple faces a similar choice.   If "generative AI" amounts to a train already out of the station, then it might be time to put more muscle to an effort like Apple News, or Apple TV +, or Apple Music:   #apple #strategy #bigbusinesses   https://lnkd.in/ehpzqPge