NHL player built an NLP meme-stock sentiment predictor just before GPT-3
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-10-21
- The reposter recalls his college classmate Devin, now a pro hockey player, who built an NLP tool just before GPT-3 to monitor internet sentiment on meme stocks and predict price movements.
- He calls Devin "incredibly nice and crazy smart," saying that if he weren't in the NHL he would "100% be at a frontier lab."
- A light AI-adjacent anecdote about a hidden tech talent in professional sports.
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