joshuaellinger

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by joshuaellinger 4y ago
Total Pipedream Brian has been pushing a bunch of different projects in Central Texas since the Boring Company moved here. None of them have actually gotten any real consideration. The only real tunnel that is likely to get built here is a
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by joshuaellinger 5y ago
My favorite is "Now, that's not a stupid idea". I used to do that with a friend at my first job. We'd argue for hours until we found a good solution. The joke, of course, is that everything before then was stupid. Of c
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by joshuaellinger 5y ago
I'm surprised nobody mentioned good old H. Ross Perot, the Texas billionaire who made Bill Clinton president in 1992. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot ) Perot peeled off enough libertarian voters from the
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by joshuaellinger 5y ago
I assume it was yours. Everything fits your description and I don't think anyone else is doing exactly the same thing. I don't think the system is broken. It's just not an easy problem, especially if you can't use the
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by joshuaellinger 5y ago
I live in Austin TX and got one of the mailers last year. I was wondering how you pulled it off. The handwriting on the outside does make it look personal but, once you open it, it is obviously computer generated due to the consistency of
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by joshuaellinger 5y ago
It might not work but.. I was suggesting that you try to do the reverse of what they are doing. Large US companies look to other parts of the world to reduce their labor costs. If you try to justify the cost of the contract with them on yo
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by joshuaellinger 5y ago
Reading the comments, I noticed that my advice is very US-centric. The core still applies but you want to approach pricing differently. I would set your pricing around a proposed move to the US so you can ask for money at US labor prices.
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by joshuaellinger 5y ago
I was in a similar position a decade ago. I took the money and it worked out for my ambitions (a nice living running a small company). It is up to you to decide which path to pursue. In my case, there was an intermediary company and they
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by joshuaellinger 5y ago
Python has really extensive libraries. Here is the Nearest Neighbor one I've used in the past: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.ne... . ... Prior articles I've read point to
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by joshuaellinger 5y ago
I would find an existing business that is hosting on the public cloud. Often, it is just a bunch of VMs that don't really leverage what the cloud has to offer -- they are just convenient. Offer to migrate them from the cloud to a priv
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by joshuaellinger 5y ago
Hard to take the analysis seriously when it (a) take UNIX as an example and (b) pretends Linux doesn't exist. The Linux kernel looks to be a successful Bazaar project with a single person (Linus) having nominal responsibly. I recently
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by joshuaellinger 5y ago
It's friendly, laid back but there is plenty of startup activity. (Power situation is better than SF in general because nothing is burning around here.) Culturally, the vibe of SF is that everyone must to be exceptional at something.
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by joshuaellinger 5y ago
Only take VC money if you want to create a large company and sell it in a 5-7 time frame. Or go out of business trying... The main reason you should raise seed money is because (a) you need it to build the product and (b) you are worried s
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by joshuaellinger 5y ago
I just implemented both a CSV parser and an address standardizer in numba (both CPU and GPU) running in parallel feed through a message queue with a bunch of workers subprocs. It takes a bit of getting used to but the performance gains on i
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by joshuaellinger 6y ago
And... it is back (for us at least.)
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by joshuaellinger 6y ago
This is great. I suspect that I have exactly the right use case for this. The two main issues with running SQL Server are (1) you have to license all the cores on a system and (2) the standard license only recognizes up to 64GB RAM. So I
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by joshuaellinger 6y ago
I read both sides and it looks like The Intercept really doesn't have a leg to stand on. Greenwald offered to publish the story elsewhere (which he is explicitly allowed to by his contract) and they said no. He published both the art
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by joshuaellinger 6y ago
Sounds a lot like Alan Moore's complaints about comics. But I think you assign problems to the game that are really problems of the audience. Who wants to be a random character in a Game of Thrones campaign? How exactly is it fun to
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by joshuaellinger 6y ago
I wrote something like this but used a GPU to do all the heavy lifting. It was mostly just to learn how Numba's GPU support worked so I never benchmarked it. It was very fast. I think most people don't appreciate that CSV parsin
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by joshuaellinger 6y ago
Military personnel are trained to be apolitical much more than you might realize from the outside. My information is from a cousin-in-law who just retired. If a few generals who sided with the president, they would face a lot of resignatio
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by joshuaellinger 6y ago
Take a look at Numba for JIT. The primary drawback of Numpy alone is that you pay the memory-to-cache latency for every operation. Numba compiles into C on the fly. It makes Python fast when it matters.
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by joshuaellinger 6y ago
The dealership model comes from the abuses by the OEMs during the first part of the 1930s. They would sell you cars and then charge a ton for repairs and lock you in to only getting repairs from them. The local dealerships are small busine
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by joshuaellinger 6y ago
Render consistency. I was doing automated image capture of some data sites and diffing them to see if they changed. Chrome would jitter. Firefox drew the same bits every time.
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by joshuaellinger 6y ago
Weird -- it appears to be missing the last 10-20 years of development in random numbers by the data science and cryptography community. They have put a lot of work into it. If I recall correctly there are two major angles, 1. there is a
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by joshuaellinger 6y ago
GPU servers and coloc are pretty cheap these days. $1K/m rent per 20A of power. ROI on hardware is usually 3-4 months max (ie - for the cost the machine at AWS for 3-4 months, you can buy the same thing). Lead time might be a problem
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by joshuaellinger 6y ago
Why are you comparing defense spending to a pension fund (SS)? Hardly seems appropriate. Having a bunch of old people around is expensive. Are you suggesting that we should go back to letting them starve when they get too old to work or
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by joshuaellinger 6y ago
I'm in the midst of returning from the cloud to coloc. It's looking like for about $50K in hardware I get x10 the ram/compute/storage/(internal) network I get from the cloud at around $10K/mo. However, it is t
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by joshuaellinger 6y ago
1. Nothing I've found comes anywhere close to Emacs support for keyboard macros. Zero latency to record. Records every keystroke. Very very consistent behavior. Infinite undo. Kill Ring. Register support. Despite being an expert
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by joshuaellinger 6y ago
On the smaller end of the scale, I have a $12K/mo spend with Azure. I decided to go back to Coloc. For under $50K, I have 4 machines with an aggregate 1TB RAM, 48 cores, 1 pricy GPU, 16TB of fast SSD, 40 TB HHD, and infiniband @ 56GB&
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by joshuaellinger 6y ago
Any plans for an Azure Blob API?

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