Nils Valseth Selte

Transformers are eating software. Software is eating the world - Marc Andreessen Industrial Economics & Technology Management student (NTNU '27, Berkeley Exchange '25) specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Finance. I like building things people find value in, talking to people about how software can help them, and working with highly ambitious and motivated teams.
Preprint

When context sticks

Writeup of preprint on interference and recovery in in-context learning.

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Competition

National championship in AI

Write-up of the NorgesGruppen Data challenge.

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Project

Launching my personal website

Built this website as a blog, inspired by Physical Intelligence's website.

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Project

Building a market making bot from scratch

Full-stack trading bot that streams order book data, simulates the book, quotes with a fixed spread strategy, and records trades in SQLite with a small REST and SSE API on top.

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Experience

Joining Zerolytics as a modeling intern

Working on climate-adjusted valuation models, turning a manual analyst workflow into a Python-based pipeline that scaled to hundreds of companies.

Education

Spending a year at UC Berkeley

Exchange year focused on Deep Neural Networks and Optimization, plus a course project on in-context learning and how transformer models pick up new tasks from examples.

Experience

Helping build Tendro in its early days

Blending product and engineering: analytics for usage and KPIs, competitor and pricing work used in fundraising, and pieces of the production codebase for our first enterprise customers.

Project

Doggo: My first full stack application in Next.js

Built a small website that shows pictures of cute dogs

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Education

Starting the MSc at NTNU

Industrial Economics & Technology Management with an AI and Finance track.

Personal

Crossing the Atlantic on a 33 ft sailing boat

Six months living on a 1982 sailboat with a friend, sailing from the Caribbean to Florida and back across the Atlantic to Europe. A good test of risk, planning, and not losing your mind at sea.

If you want to chat about AI, finance, sailing or building things, please get in touch.