Nihmie

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by Nihmie 4y ago
A few exist -- you can find use the unofficial Robinhood API, for example. I use Alpaca, which has an official API.
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by Nihmie 4y ago
To be pedantic about this complexity estimate for the 4 x 4 case, both of them reduce to a O(1). If N == 4, it's a constant, so we have O(4^2.778) == O(4^2.8074) == O(1). Talking about scaling for a problem that has no scaling factor
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by Nihmie 4y ago
It used to be that one of the best things about working at Google was the "blameless postmortem". As long as you are able to learn from an incident and weren't attempting to look at private data, then you could write up a pos
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by Nihmie 4y ago
I'm inclined to agree with you here. The solutions suggested here seem to depend on heuristics that depend on the type of distribution. A tangential question: real numbers are uncountably infinite. Are probability distributions over th
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by Nihmie 4y ago
Is there actually some way to guess with better than 50% chance? I'm pretty sure this could be reduced to the secretary problem where there's a pool of 2 candidates, which yields an optimal hire with probability 50%. Maybe you pla
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by Nihmie 4y ago
There's an unfortunate issue with software engineering: Perception is Reality. The technical struggles you've described sound like they're about par for a junior dev. You made some costly mistakes and you think you could achi
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by Nihmie 5y ago
Well, I was exposed to a new idea today. It looks like the concept here is similar to me observing that the average number of hairs on a human head is about 1e5. Also, the average number of meals a human consumes in their lifetime is about
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by Nihmie 5y ago
Everything Paul wrote about in this post resonated with me. He avoided any examples, and looking through these HN comments, it's clear why. A lot of people assume that his experiences are specific, but no, there really is a culture of