Rainymood

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by Rainymood 3y ago
As a machine learning platform engineer these sound like technology choices as opposed to infrastructure decisions . I would love to read this post but really with the infrastructure trade-offs that were made. But thanks for the post. Si
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by Rainymood 3y ago
A shower thought I had recently is that we should start referring to "Business cases" as "Survival cases" and "Business books" as "Survival books" and that makes the inherent bias so much clearer.
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by Rainymood 3y ago
So, effectively, there was... no rule.
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by Rainymood 3y ago
I have one notebook that I carry around where I list tasks just in order to cross them out. There is something so viscerally satisfying in crossing out a task that just provides so much momentum to whatever I'm doing. There's just
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by Rainymood 4y ago
Very interesting post and I read it in full. The article is definitely interesting but I found it a shame that the author didn't talk more about his system that brought him from 5k to 200k as the title implies :)
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by Rainymood 4y ago
I asked this question 5 years ago in an AMA the CEO did once here, but they plainly ignored me and are a unicorn 5 years later. The trick here is to move so fast that the law has trouble keeping up (same with Uber/AirBNB).
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by Rainymood 4y ago
Did you ever try poetry[1]? It is a great tool that I use in all my projects. It effectively solves dependency management for me in a very easy to use way. Dependency management using requirements.txt used to give me such a headache, now I
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by Rainymood 4y ago
Very decentralized, until we don't like it anymore, then very centralized.
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by Rainymood 4y ago
I'm half asian and I get the "Asian flush" [0] which for all intents and purposes induces the same effect as this drug (DSF) >Individuals who experience the alcohol flushing reaction may be less prone to alcoholism. Disulf
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by Rainymood 5y ago
Very happy that Brandon Sanderson is looking more and more healthy as time goes on :) love his writing
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by Rainymood 5y ago
As a Dutch person, I was never taught this, I can see it is good practice but we just don't do it. All we do is check over our shoulders before we open the door because we know there can be a cyclist . Why? Because we are all cyclists
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by Rainymood 5y ago
I liked the post a lot, but I am furiously sceptical about this claim: >This is why Apple Maps has higher market share than Google Maps Do you have any (recent) source for this or is this just a wild guess? I literally know no one that p
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by Rainymood 5y ago
I use PyCharm JetBrains for most of my development work, the testing/debugging setup just works too good out of the box. I just wish PyCharm 100% copied the way search/find works in VS Code. PyCharm search and find is so awkward,
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by Rainymood 5y ago
>In NL, you pay ~€110/month annually, with a max out-of-pocket cost of €385 per year. So, maximum €1600 cost annually. My provider, CZ, charges ~€150/month with max-out-of-pocket ~€385. If you get the full ~€850 out of pocket t
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by Rainymood 5y ago
I love this so much. No frills, just software solving (boring) problems in a scalable way. All the best :)
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by Rainymood 5y ago
This solution is really bad, read it in as a dataframe and use a groupby...
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by Rainymood 5y ago
I remember this blog post from ~3 years ago when I had to write my MPhil thesis :) thanks for this, it really helped me understand it!
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by Rainymood 5y ago
Yesterday, I wrote a short blog post titled "Don't mistake the internet's intelligence for your own" [0] which is very closely related to this blog post here. I wrote it it to shine some light on the fact that knowledge
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by Rainymood 5y ago
This is the so-called "Illusion of competence/learning" [1] and I have become fascinated with this topic (and learning in general). The only way out of this trap is to self-test. [1] https://staciechoice1010.wordpr
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by Rainymood 5y ago
Is there any version of Dan Luu's website with just a hint of css? Plain HTML is unreadable imho, content is usually great but I struggle to get through it because it's so damn hard on the eyes.
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by Rainymood 5y ago
>If you feel like a better than average programmer, there’s a 50% chance you’re correct. This is not correct right? The word average should be replaced by the word median. Then this sentence is correct. More on topic. I strive to be a 10
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by Rainymood 5y ago
I do Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) to stay fit. It's a really fun and intellectually stimulating (yes, really) grappling martial art. I do it three times a week and am always completely exhausted, sore, and drenched in sweat after every se
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by Rainymood 5y ago
What you describe is the basis of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). I use it personally and has helped me greatly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy
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by Rainymood 5y ago
In theory, theory and practice are the same. If you are interested in this and want to further your studies in this field try looking up this thing called "Prospect theory", it's like game theory+.
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by Rainymood 5y ago
>The Unit of Work is not the Unit of Value Resonated with me a lot. I've been working on a high-value ticket for 2 weeks now and close to cracking it. But it feels bad because I've "only" worked on 1 ticket while my c
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by Rainymood 5y ago
I'm also using flashcards and the Anki app to memorise syntax. I got sick of looking up the difference between list.append and list.extend and all kinds of small things. Hope it helps...
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by Rainymood 5y ago
Been following you on twitter since vim.so! Godspeed to you sir!
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by Rainymood 5y ago
What is the reason it requires iOS 14.1 or later? I run an old version for iOS and would love this. I make repeatable checklists for everything and I feel like this could really help me out.
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by Rainymood 5y ago
Really cool but no one needs this... as a data scientist learning javascript, teach me how to run data science models using javascript! That's where the real gold is... I'm even thinking of writing articles about this myself... JS
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by Rainymood 5y ago
Wait what? You can make small changes in preview?!

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