drfunk

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by drfunk 3mo ago
sounds a lot like a tweet from the parody account @PeterMolydeux !
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by drfunk 3mo ago
Rick-and-Morty-esque title
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by drfunk 10mo ago
In my head I read "okara.ai" as "okarai", which sounds an awful lot like "o caralho" in Portuguese, and I had a good chuckle out of it...
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by drfunk 11mo ago
Very cool, I thought about building exactly this a few months ago! Glad to see someone did :)
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by drfunk 1y ago
Very good summary / starting point to better understand what makes OLAP databases get far better performance than OLTP DBs on analytical tasks!
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How I Solved SQL Testing Hell: A Framework for DuckDB ↔ Snowflake Test Parity(medium.com)
1 points by drfunk 1y ago|0 comments
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by drfunk 1y ago
Started reading the thread, and stopped because I realized I was hyperventilating
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by drfunk 1y ago
Of course she's doubling down. Anything else would mean facing the extent of her responsibility in the death of her child, which would be absolutely crushing to her ego and self-image as a parent. She's protecting herself psycholo
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by drfunk 2y ago
Looks really interesting! I've been looking for resources on how to ask better questions, it'll surely come in handy. I wonder if there's a PDF / single-file version somewhere, for easier consumption on e-readers?
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by drfunk 2y ago
Wtf that's incredible
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by drfunk 2y ago
Ha! I went through half of the Turkish course but stopped around two years ago, thanks for the reminder, I resumed my progression! I'll be looking at the new courses too :) And thanks a lot for making all of this work available to all
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by drfunk 2y ago
One point for Cory Doctorow!
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by drfunk 2y ago
Worth noting that the article dates back from April
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by drfunk 2y ago
Use a journaling app, and write a few notes on what you did everyday. Each week, write a summary, grouped by topic: on project A, did 3 MRs, assisted pre-sales team on product X... At the end of the quarter, review the weekly summaries. Don
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by drfunk 2y ago
Nice project! I have a few qualms with the instructions (sometimes misleading or unclear) and the implementation. For instance some problems fail, because 0. is considered different from 0.0 Using np.testing.assert_allclose in your asserts
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by drfunk 2y ago
Nice work, I really like it! Do you plan on adding a small explainer as a blog post? That would be neat!
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by drfunk 2y ago
Mostly good for talent pipeline imo. I try to look for curiosity and autonomy when interviewing prospective interns. That way I can let them explore cool topics that we don't have the bandwidth for. Bear in mind that (at least where I&
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by drfunk 3y ago
I find that most nice resources are paywalled unfortunately... (commenting to hopefully get pointers)
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by drfunk 3y ago
You can play with Guesstimate, a spreadsheet-like tool handling uncertainty. Here's an example of estimating the duration of a task (shopping): https://www.getguesstimate.com/models/19512
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by drfunk 3y ago
3blue1brown's visualizations made a lot of things click for me, years after learning algebra and calculus. In my opinion they're the perfect companion to a more formal study with textbooks. Playlist for linear algebra: https:&#x2
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by drfunk 3y ago
Excalidraw is good when you need a virtual whiteboard. No login required, so I've used it a lot for remote job interviews. https://excalidraw.com/