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Can ChatGPT Outperform the Market? A Finance Nerds Quest to Find Out

By @nathanbsmith729 [ 2 Min read ] I’m running a six month experiment to see whether ChatGPT could beat the market with a micro-cap portfolio. Read More.

Code Smell 308 - The Key to Safer, Cleaner, More Polymorphic Code

By @mcsee [ 7 Min read ] Avoid methods that return Object, Any, or null instead of specific types. Make them fully polymorphic Read More.

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