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Published · transcript-backedReza Shabani: belief
3 May 2023 Latent Space Training a SOTA Code LLM in 1 week and Quantifying the Vibes — with Reza Shabani of Replit
“I mean, I, I think someone like in a software engineering background, cuz you think of finance and you think of like calling people to get the deal done and that type of thing.”
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- Reza Shabani
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- belief
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- 3 May 2023
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- Latent Space
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…You did a bunch of number crunching at top financial companies and it still wasn't obvious. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I, I think someone like in a software engineering background, cuz you think of finance and you think of like calling people to get the deal done and that type of thing. No, it's, it's not that as, as you know, it's very very quantitative. Especially what I did in, in finance, very quantitative. Yeah, so we can cover a little bit of that and then go into the rapid journey. So as, as you, as you know, I was also a quantitative trader on the sell side and the buy side. And yeah, I actually learned Python there. I learned my, I wrote my own data pipelines there before airflow was a thing, and it was just me writing running notebooks and not version controlling them. And it was a complete mess, but we were managing a billion dollars on, on my crappy code. Yeah, yeah. What was it like for you?…
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