Falcorian

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by Falcorian 3y ago
My favorite quote on the subject is: > Every great open source math library is built on the ashes of someone’s academic career. From William Stein, lead developer of the computer algebra system, Sage: http://wstein.org/ta
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by Falcorian 3y ago
Yeah, working from home for four years now and I only have one office and desk. It's used for work, of course, but also when I'm writing for my self, or playing video games with my friends. I don't have any problem disconnect
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by Falcorian 3y ago
It's definitely a culture thing, probably more at the company level but certainly country level culture matters as well. At my San Francisco based fintech, the culture that's developed is: For one-on-ones and small meetings where
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by Falcorian 3y ago
Yes, the models are not constantly learning. They only update their knowledge when they are retrained, which is pretty infrequently (I think the base GPT models have not been retrained, but the chat laters on top might).
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by Falcorian 4y ago
False. Every time you transfer money from an account at one bank to another you're using ACH. Same with moving funds from banks to stock brokers or brokers to banks. The real reason it doesn't compete is its slow, and many banks h
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by Falcorian 4y ago
I trust Vacuum Wars for technical reviews of vacuums and vacuum robots: https://youtube.com/c/VacuumWars Looks like their big robot round up is about 9 months old, but they have single model reviews as well. Edit: A li
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by Falcorian 5y ago
They prefer to have them at the end because: 1. You don't want these cars to get banged around a lot and maybe have their weight change. 2. So you put them at the very end where they take the least wear and tear. 3. But they're no
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by Falcorian 5y ago
Because the same two numbers (routing and account) are used to deposit money AND debit money. So if you post your account numbers I can pull all your money out. Now you'll likely get it back if you file a fraud claim, but that's
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by Falcorian 7y ago
It depends on the company and the role. In general, I would be prepared for some white boarding questions, although I've found they're generally "a little easier" than the ones the engineers whine about.
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by Falcorian 7y ago
A fun tech side of this post is that the random walk visualization is an SVG that is generated live on the page, and hence new each time. Very cool! The code: https://lemoing.ca/scripts/knight.js
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by Falcorian 7y ago
As a Physics PhD, I certainly went into grad school wanting to get a faculty position; is suspect most people did in my cohort. Of course we're mostly data scientists now, because only 5% win the faculty lottery. Data science wasn&#x27
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by Falcorian 7y ago
I found the OSX specific XDG section helpful, because I've been setting it to ~/.cache for years! Good to know there is a better way that the OS understands (a bit a least).
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by Falcorian 7y ago
Here is an overly simple example: Pre-compute the recommended hotels for my top users every night. Now when that user comes back, they see a slightly stale recommendation, but it's lightning fast. You can also pre-compute and cache som
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by Falcorian 7y ago
That's my experience as well: apt is only "slow" in that sometimes it has to download and write gigs of stuff to disk. Now brew and conda, they often take minutes to solve for the environment, which is what I think of when yo
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by Falcorian 7y ago
Exactly. At my company, Type A are called "Data Analysts", but at Google Facebook they're called "Data Scientists". Type B are "Data Scientists" at my company, but "Machine Learning Engineers" (o
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by Falcorian 7y ago
Definitely, and I've added some of the same ones. What I meant is it doesn't seem to parse the same range of formats, so it rejected some of Pi Hole's filters as malformed.
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by Falcorian 7y ago
It is a nightmare! I just finished fighting with it this weekend. The controller only officially supports ARM 32, and the mongoDB dependency only supports ARM 64. In the end I I used a 64-bit Ubuntu, 64-bit mongoDB from the mongoDB repo, an
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by Falcorian 7y ago
Really simple stuff, compared to the self watering plants, etc.: - AdGuard Home DNS (Pi Hole was just not stable for me) - Unifi Controller - Torrent box (come get your Linux distros!) - Always on platform to host various scripts on; one ba
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by Falcorian 7y ago
I've run into the same. It often would come back from a reboot without DNS restarted correctly. I never went through a Pi Hole update without having to manually fix things either. A few weeks ago I switched to Ad Guard Home. Has been r
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by Falcorian 7y ago
They are almost certainly not allowed by their employment contract.
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by Falcorian 7y ago
Confusing, yes. In this case, it's GeV.
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by Falcorian 7y ago
Similar story with me: decided I didn't want to join the long-term job hunt and went to Insight (4 years ago). I've been very happy doing data science ever since. It's great to work more collaboratively, ship more quickly, an
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by Falcorian 10y ago
ESC is the key that (roughly) takes you back to normal mode from insert mode, visual mode, etc. If you aren't using it, then you're either using one of the other ways to get back to normal mode (like CTRL-[), or you are using Vi i