carlmcqueen

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by carlmcqueen 1y ago
For awhile I was working on Monte Carlo sims in my job in finance in my early career. Just re-building a existing archaic excel monster in python to be more flexible to new investment models and implement and allow for more levers. Since I
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by carlmcqueen 3y ago
Anecdotal, and old now: I worked with an ex-NSA agent when I worked at a big bank who worked out of a some of middle east offices in early 2000s. He talked about how new agents often struggle with the size of data (even then) but most good
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by carlmcqueen 3y ago
I'm not far into it, so I don't know how good it will be. However FX's 'Class of 2009' seems interesting too where FBI agents have AI strapped to them feeding the dataset at all times. The show jumps between 2009,
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by carlmcqueen 3y ago
Having to ask people be kind about your code on HN is such a shame of reality to me. Half of brilliance is having your working version, used by many people. You had working code that brought reddit to so many reddit users every day that wa
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by carlmcqueen 3y ago
I know it's my own niche case, but with apple silicone I have more issues with external monitors than I've ever had in my entire life. I run my own business and I've always liked Macs because having the same software as my t
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by carlmcqueen 4y ago
The fear of language model AI takes me back to my original fear when I joined a data science team at a huge bank with just a bachelor's degree and five years of experience. I was embedded in the mess of databases created by hundreds of
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by carlmcqueen 4y ago
Personal response to this, despite owning a home, is that there always seems to be some reason the media/news stories are making the home market sound shaky when they're actually talking about the viability of the house flipping m
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by carlmcqueen 4y ago
I live in the midwest and own a non-tesla EV, and the minute you get out of any kind of bigger cities your chances of finding a level 3 are quite sparse. There are a LOT of chargepoint level 2s, but level 3s seem to be at car dealerships w
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by carlmcqueen 4y ago
Really interesting point but I know I've gotten older when he said 'my audience is middle-aged' but the way I read the chart from google is that most of his audience is between 21-34 with a tail of older than that and a steep
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by carlmcqueen 4y ago
Oracle people tend to be heavy oracle people too. At the bank I worked before 2019 at I was on a advanced analytic team, we had this amazing teradata database and then there were these insanely fast (yet older) IBM DB2 databases and then th
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by carlmcqueen 4y ago
Hulu is one, if you need an example.
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by carlmcqueen 4y ago
This is an analysis should probably be read while listening to Dave Matthews Band Ants Marching. Really cool analysis and fun to see it written in R. Jerr Thorpe had an app that gave you your power back and tracked your phone info in a way
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by carlmcqueen 4y ago
I'm not a doctor, but as a family member and extended family member, I know that many bipolar children appear with ADHD in their early years and are treated with ADHD medication. They are treated with stimulants that have no effect on
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by carlmcqueen 4y ago
I don't know why I never looked into it more but this comment caught me off guard. I always wondered what hotline was because a friend of mine in high school's dad was a bartender part time in the carribbean and during the summer
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by carlmcqueen 4y ago
In 2008, I graduated at the same time as this guy, and I had two film grad friends who felt EXACTLY the same way. One started as a wire guy in television and worked his way up to a producer now, the other one I got a job in corporate bankin
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by carlmcqueen 5y ago
Why would only having been with three people change how much sex you have had?
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by carlmcqueen 5y ago
If journalism is similar to art, this seems obvious. When we consider the many classical periods of art, we see that the majority of the artists lived in the same location, knew each other, and had the same circle of funders for their work.
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by carlmcqueen 5y ago
dtplyr is an option as well which lets you use tidyverse syntax with data.table backend. Speed and syntax. If you learned data.table however, it's better to just stay in data.table. Nothing in the tidyverse can touch the efficiency of
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by carlmcqueen 5y ago
My wife has a doctorate in occupational therapy and works as a hand therapist, when pay is the only metric looked at you really do miss a lot. The body condition of construction workers, fork lift operators and even welders is worn down and
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by carlmcqueen 5y ago
Or even continually change it. So even if you agreed with original terms, to continue using it you have to keep accepting the changes.
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by carlmcqueen 5y ago
When I worked for a major financial institution in a data science / analytic group there were a lot of very, very smart math types who couldn't code. They'd ask how I'd gotten my code working and I'd never lie, tha
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by carlmcqueen 5y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm Which has been done before.
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by carlmcqueen 7y ago
This is a very common answer to these stories on hackernews but this one is from a humble point of view that truly brings home the point. My side is that I worked for a bank on the brokerage side for ten years in different positions. What
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by carlmcqueen 7y ago
This is good news for new users to python when getting books that start with an argument for using 2 or 3 and then the book trying to be in both.
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by carlmcqueen 7y ago
while software driven, there is a program you can get called Haptic Touch Bar, which vibrates when you hit the touchbar buttons. Not perfect, but at least sort of helpful. The main point, let me have a nice version without the touchbar is s
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by carlmcqueen 7y ago
A lot of the discussions of how AI is coming for your jobs follows the same reasoning of how automation is/was, even before it was called machine learning. The data science team at a major bank I used to work for historically had a tea
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by carlmcqueen 8y ago
All this AI stuff is nice, but the important questions are what are the benchmarks of a retropie?
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by carlmcqueen 8y ago
Not to spoil the article for anyone but.. Pretty in depth article and well laid out explanation of natural gradient descent with a small pre-fit dataset for a conclusion of 'too computationally expensive for machine learning/big d
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by carlmcqueen 8y ago
I've only see this in parallels when using a windows application. So if you have windows office because it has traditionally been better than the one offered to mac you'd have to remember to use control instead of command.
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by carlmcqueen 8y ago
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-loui... Wasn't a homeless person, but in St. Louis Missouri a house isn't out of the question.

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