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by jrpt 1156 days ago
I've found it useful using LLMs to help understand company 10-K reports like these:

https://docalysis.com/library/10-k-reports

For example, I used it to understand how much Meta is investing in its Reality Labs initiatives ($13.7 billion last year) as well as how much revenue Reality Labs brought in ($2.15 billion).

I'm certain financial professionals are using it to better understand the world. The paper says it uses ChatGPT for sentiment analysis, but I think an even bigger leap is going to be getting actual meaning out of news and financial reports more efficiently.

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Except that is completely wrong. Reality Labs revenue was $2.16B and Reality Labs total loses were $13.7B for 2022 (table on page 119).

Also this quote: "For example, our investments in Reality Labs reduced our 2022 overall operating profit by approximately $13.72 billion, and we expect our investments to increase in the future."

Sorry, I put the wrong number in my comment. You can see the LLMs can understand it properly. Here's a screenshot where I just double checked: https://i.imgur.com/Xu1X2zC.png
I tried your website thought of a question to ask and then your bot said something about scammers and needing to sign up.

Some meddling advice 1) think about giving an easy-win to users so they actually want to sign up. You didn't give one, and in fact surprise users in an annoying way because you don't tell users they need to sign up until after they've already submitited their question. Not even a teaser, just completely zero value.

2) be upfront when you're affiliate with a product. HN isn't totally against about self-promotion, but you have to be upfront about it being your product and not just a cool thing you're using.

Sure, but the counterargument is that it costs real money to run queries, so it limits the amount of queries per day by your user account. Signing up is free, I just don't want someone racking up huge bills and abusing it.