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Viet Phan
Big 4 accounting is so cooked. A SOTA LLM can nail a one-month forward reconciliation at 100% accuracy.
Now its pure tooling to make it continuous. Remind me what the â$300/hr billable expertsâ are for again?
2:25 PM · Jul 23, 2025
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Viet Phan
Textbook film festival convo when she hit on you:
1. you work in movies?
2. whatâs your job?
3. did you arrive by car?
4. this 5 star wasnât that pricey right?
5. how long you stay?
Score 5/5 or risk failing mandatory KYC onboarding
1:52 PM · Jul 10, 2025
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Viet Phan
lfmao turns out Cloudflare is just a another google GCP wrapper.
$NET went -5% after hours.
Suddenly EU sovereign DNS and self hosting look like the only survival play.
8:43 AM · Jun 13, 2025
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Viet Phan
Be me: attend Machine Learning conference
Watch 21-year olds demo AI that literally saves firefighter lives
Return to my desk patting myself on the back for a 0.27% churn drop
Existential dread creeps in
2:12 PM · May 29, 2025
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Viet Phan
Tried a life-expectancy calculator and it turned out Iâm good for 89 years.
Now plotting how to blow every last penny by then.
Retire broke and die happy.
Not a financial advice.
7:46 PM · May 18, 2025
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Viet Phan
One step closer to full-on algo trading with Interactive Brokersâ API after 4 hours of sweat, and curses
Now firing off multi-leg options strategies algorithmically with just
"result: rest_client.Result = client.modify_order()"
Feel free to steal the code.
3:00 PM · May 10, 2025
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Viet Phan
What Youtube gurus won't tell you about n8n and no code automation:
No type safety
Debugging in the dark
Context switching PTSD
Poor logic reusability
Your brain doing gymnastics over API calls, states and logic
The no-code hype? Mostly a lie.
6:09 PM · May 4, 2025
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Viet Phan
If youâre not on n8n yet, youâre missing out.
Just spent 4 hours ripping a Go microservice+Temporal orchestration to shreds and redone it as a two-step n8n workflow.
Automation so slick itâs practically cheating.
9:01 AM · Apr 28, 2025
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Viet Phan
Starting with Reinforcement learning is scary
You need Anaconda, OpenAI Gym⊠and a prayer.
So I overfit my first agent from scratch. As any beginner would do.
Result: Buy/Sell Acc. 53.54%, Total reward:Â 7
Definitely not a money printerâŠbut hey, at least got ball rolling
11:39 AM · Apr 21, 2025
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Viet Phan
In 2024, Jane Street sued Millennium over a stolen $1B trading strategy targeting Indiaâs retail options traders
Their trick? Triggering tiny index moves minutes before expiry, trapping all instantly
Retail thought they found easy money. Turns out, they were the easy money
6:39 PM · Apr 19, 2025
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