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by josgraha 5mo ago
i love this comment, 100% agree and where were you in my childhood my friend?
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Observable: Beyond the Normal Distribution(observablehq.com)
1 points by josgraha 6y ago|1 comments
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by josgraha 6y ago
Nice explainer of the `g-and-h` distribution with interactive slider applying the quantile function, helps build an intuition for the function and how it transforms distributions.
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by josgraha 6y ago
this might be a bit vague so to put another way perhaps I learned to zoom in before zooming out, and once I have done something, it never hurts to zoom in again and see what can be gleaned from the assertions I was making about the world at
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by josgraha 6y ago
my aha moment as a developer - I would learn some technology to a point where it does what I want - I take what I learned to some new technology but find myself doing things from what I learned in other technologies - this puts me in a stra
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Jsonpipe is a lightweight AJAX client for chunked JSON responses(github.com)
2 points by josgraha 11y ago|0 comments
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by josgraha 12y ago
This is a disturbing trend by IBs flexing their legal might against their (former) software engineers. Before automated trading systems there were traders who carried their strategies around in their heads. On the surface it appears to be
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by josgraha 14y ago
In my opinion the most important skill is philosophy, I think someone once asked "To be X or !X?" Without philosophy we have nothing, no science or math. If greatness is doing the best we possibly can at everything we do then that's "great
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by josgraha 16y ago
Here's a link to that article on The Economist that states there are too many people doing too much of _everything_ and life is hard in general. Oh wait, that doesn't exist yet perhaps because that's reality. It sounds like he has spent s
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by josgraha 18y ago
Man these are some awesome comments. "Self proclaimed" Rockstars != craftsman. Those who earned the title. Guido vonRossum et. al. are having their five minutes, let them have it, they took the risks. You can't blame the recruiter thoug