drgiggles

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by drgiggles 5mo ago
Weird timing, I just stumbled upon this Brian Beckman video recently https://youtu.be/ZhuHCtR3xq8?si=ifeR6wddsPRdOw1N
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by drgiggles 5mo ago
It’s possible (even true in my opinion) that garbage collected functional languages and low level languages like Zig are both great, and serve different purposes. I actually ship stuff in Haskell believe it or not. I also think Zig is very
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by drgiggles 6mo ago
This. It's valuable b/c if you have many thousands of python devs using astral tooling all day, and it tightly integrates with subscription based openai products...likelihood of openai product usage increases. Same idea with the a
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by drgiggles 1y ago
I am pretty far to one end of the spectrum on need for comments. Very rarely is a comment useful to help you/another developer decipher the intent and function of a piece of code.
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by drgiggles 1y ago
Easily 99% of comments generated by LLMs are useless.
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by drgiggles 1y ago
There are mountains of data that show it actually has long term benefits beyond weight loss (beyond even the obvious health markers that improve due to losing weight). I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the majority of the population ends up
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by drgiggles 1y ago
Anyone that’s worth anything at all in this field is “self taught”, some of them just went to school first.
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by drgiggles 2y ago
I am a strategist at a smallish boutique quant investment firm. This is how we think about hiring a junior person. It's not all that different for a more senior person, but actual development experience would likely be more important,
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by drgiggles 2y ago
When we hire a junior person we are interested in math background, ability to communicate real world value of various models to our investment process and familiarity with computer science and software engineering concepts more than we care
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by drgiggles 2y ago
I work in quantitative finance and have wanted to to start using OCaml at work for years. I just find that unless you are at a shop like Jane Street with a well developed proprietary code base, internally developed tooling, etc, there just
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by drgiggles 2y ago
If you were to buy a property today in any major market, the average unlevered cap rate on leasing residential property is nowhere near 20%. In many cases it’s not even profitable without a significant housing price return assumption.
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by drgiggles 2y ago
This is only part of what drives inflation. Yes, increase in money supply creates upward pressure on inflation. Higher interest rates reduce borrowing, which decreases demand for goods and services, this has downward pressure on inflation.
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by drgiggles 4y ago
This is exactly my point. Let subject matter experts in their respective disciplines handle what they know and communicate through the lingua franca of R. Most data scientists/statisticians probably shouldn't be writing production
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by drgiggles 4y ago
Unfortunately it seemed pretty clear from the start that this is what data science would turn into. Data science effectively rebranded statistics but removed the requirement of deep statistical knowledge to allow people to get by with a cur
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by drgiggles 4y ago
No, I comment on posts about pc fan grills at 6am...I'm single :)
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by drgiggles 4y ago
hmm, I always assumed there was some other benefit. I'm taking all mine off. Seems pretty easy to not ram my finger in it.
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by drgiggles 4y ago
The point of a grill is to block dust and debris, which presumably I want. Otherwise I would just not use one and my fans would be the quietest and cool most effectively. What is the trade-off between the two metrics sited and effectiveness
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by drgiggles 5y ago
I really love Scala for all of these reasons, it also has the benefit of being used frequently in industry (big data, etc).