A second agent on another machine recomputes his trading stats and caught 2 invented numbers

His multi-agent trading stats setup has a second agent on another machine recompute results from the written method only; today it caught 2 numbers resting on an unwritten assumption, an import crashing above about 150K rows, and an outdated threshold, after the first agent's tests all passed.

How it works

His multi-agent trading stats setup has a second agent on another machine recompute results from the written method only
Today it catches 2 numbers resting on an unwritten assumption

Why it’s worth knowing

Blind recomputation is how you catch numbers that felt right.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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