DLarsen

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by DLarsen 4mo ago
Location: Prescott, Arizona Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: I've mostly built around data-heavy systems, and I'm familiar with the typical tools in that space. In this era, it's possible that my domain expe
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by DLarsen 4mo ago
"Are (legally and morally) entitled" vs "act as if they are entitled"... yes, a big question.
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The Signal is Broken(dataxam.com)
2 points by DLarsen 5mo ago|1 comments
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by DLarsen 5mo ago
I've been thinking a lot about team formation and competence hierarchies in the age of AI. I'm particularly concerned about the disruption that occurs when performance and output outruns competence. In such a world, it's no
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by DLarsen 2y ago
I like the creativity of the new form factor. My son and I are working on a spending journal which puts forth a new kind of form factor for tracking expenses. Our emphasis is less on the accounting angle and more on the behavioral side. W
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by DLarsen 3y ago
I remember near the start of HashiCorp, Mitchell and I spoke about buying one of his side projects. In seeking to rustle up some funds, friends asked me why anyone would offload a profitable project at such a price. Mitchell essentially
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by DLarsen 3y ago
https://spendlight.com My 13-year old son and I have been working on a behavior-oriented personal finance tool. I've kicked this idea around for years, and we had a chance to use it as our subject for a 12-week entrepreneu
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by DLarsen 3y ago
MPP | SaaS-savvy Product Leader | Remote Get in on the ground floor (2nd hire) of a new B2B, data-heavy venture. We're looking for someone with hard-earned street smarts, and can help establish an outstanding working relationship betwe
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by DLarsen 4y ago
I think I'm going to start asking potential employers where they do their banking.
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by DLarsen 4y ago
Location: Prescott, AZ Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Resume/CV: https://dataxam.com/about Technologies: Python, SQL, R, dbt, Snowflake, Postgres, D3, Spark, Flask, HTML, CSS, Scala, Ruby, etc. Email: david.larse
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by DLarsen 4y ago
Integrating into the operations on a provisional evaluation basis is a whole lot of work and the stakes are high. As my grandpa used to say, "There's nothing easier than doing nothing." Both parties (our company and the air
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by DLarsen 4y ago
Does the algo work? Is it better than the status quo and under what circumstances is it susceptible to failure? Does it know when the whole system is over-constrained? If we assume the algo rocks (because you have operations research vete
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by DLarsen 4y ago
We ran a pilot with one carrier for a subset of their crew for maybe a year, but eventually failed to gain further traction. Very tough sales and implementation cycle in spite of the fact that we could convince many individuals (bothe crew
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by DLarsen 4y ago
About a decade ago, I was part of a startup trying to disrupt crew scheduling. It's a non-trivial operations problem when you aim to honor crew preferences, union-negotiated affordances, FAA legalities, etc. We were only involved in
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by DLarsen 4y ago
Great feedback. There are several sample lessons, but from your feedback I see how I can make them easier to find.
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Show HN: Life Skills Website(skill-trek.com)
14 points by DLarsen 4y ago|3 comments
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by DLarsen 4y ago
I built https://www.spendlight.com/ for my wife and I to not just track spending but to get a handle on our sentiment around our spending choices. While we still have different reactions to spending decisions, it at least
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by DLarsen 6y ago
If you really want to gain knowledge and confidence in the fundamentals, spend some time watching (in real time, NOT sped up) an excellent artist. Good art is often very slow. I saw a huge improvement in my own (self-taught, hobby-level)
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by DLarsen 6y ago
The footer has more links for "Legal" than for "Product"... a sign of the times.
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by DLarsen 6y ago
Catasys | REMOTE | Sr. AI Engineer | good pay We're in the healthcare space working on some pretty compelling problems at the convergence of behavioral health and chronic conditions. I come from an ad-tech background where the genera
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by DLarsen 6y ago
I enjoyed reading this recent post from Nathan Barry, which tells some of his story: https://nathanbarry.com/homeschool/
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by DLarsen 6y ago
If you enjoy Mark Twain, the John Greenman readings ( https://librivox.org/reader/107 ) are fantastic.
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by DLarsen 6y ago
I am going through this Udemy course with my kid and it's really enjoyable. The instructor is clear and really enjoys the topic: https://www.udemy.com/course/analog-electronics-robotics-lea...
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by DLarsen 6y ago
I've recently ramped up work on something along these lines aimed specifically at personal finances (see my profile if interested... won't spam this thread). It's a spending journal which helps folks gain insight into their
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by DLarsen 6y ago
I'm working on https://spendlight.com a SMS-powered spending journal. With all the uncertainty and risk to our personal finances, it seems fitting to work on a project that will (worst case) help me buckle down and improve
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by DLarsen 7y ago
Ages ago, my tool tried to do both weekly and monthly but then I had the realization out that almost all of the monthly items were not ones I was having trouble with in the budget. The fixed expenses were (obviously) fixed. And consumpt
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by DLarsen 7y ago
Nice domain and nice concept. I too am among those with a home-grown approach to managing the budget. Mine is more of a spending journal than it is about planning or reconciling the entire budget, with motivations similar to those who wou
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by DLarsen 7y ago
I think Rand Fishkin has some good thoughts[1] regarding the broader implications of companies like Hitwise failing. Regardless of data collection methods (which is a totally valid discussion), losing visibility into the areas of internet b
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Online measurement firm, Hitwise to shut down(hitwise.com)
5 points by DLarsen 7y ago|1 comments
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by DLarsen 7y ago
Hitwise | Santa Monica, CA or Camarillo, CA | 6-month Contract | Onsite I'm looking for a data analyst to join our Data Quality team, for approximately six months, to maintain the integrity of Hitwise data. We'll need someone who

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