smfjaw

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by smfjaw 16d ago
Agree, Hunter S Thompson would've never written fear and loathing were he not a sports journo first
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by smfjaw 1mo ago
This is my favourite proof in all of maths (that I've been exposed to). Truly unreal feeling proving a statement is unprovable using godel numbering in an exam
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by smfjaw 1mo ago
manipulate foreign equity markets
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by smfjaw 2mo ago
That one took me back to high school art history. Agree, as much as I dislike AI generated art, it still is art. An Andy Warhol of today would could be making his screenprints using AI. You really can't say, 'art should be this&#x
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by smfjaw 7mo ago
Yea agree, I worked at a bank during covid and helped do some work that tangentially helped relief/social security payments go through. Warmed me heart it did
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by smfjaw 1y ago
Don't feel left out, big data architect in NZ and didn't even hear of this.
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by smfjaw 2y ago
the flood!
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by smfjaw 2y ago
NOAA is fantastic, I was alpine climbing in the very bottom of south america near El Chalten and NOAA is pretty much the only place to get a reliable forecast down there. Fantastic service.
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by smfjaw 2y ago
computational reducibility/irreducibility is a big topic in computer science and is incredibly interesting. It allows us to prove that certain "computers" are the same through proofs and that they can carry out the same tasks
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by smfjaw 2y ago
subtle off green PCB, my god, that's really nice
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by smfjaw 2y ago
I wonder why no one has introduced a hybrid of the two, for example, you have a private key on your Gov ID, you turn up to the polling station, sign your paper with your ID, bob's your dads brother. Seems like this would solve the ball
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by smfjaw 2y ago
I work in finance and it's great having big historical datasets, even if the figures are far lower in previous years it's good to see system 'shocks' and these can be used at a different magnitude/scaled for future
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by smfjaw 2y ago
Amex isn't very popular in my country but they meet a really good intersection between the old school white glove service and an easily usable hassle free modern service
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by smfjaw 2y ago
I imagine the "talks" amount to one of them (probably ghostface) telling them to go f themselves
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by smfjaw 2y ago
I grew up lower middle class, which gave me a good hunger to go to college, get a degree and make some money. VCs are trying to incentivise that same mindset except by making with riches equity instead of opportunity
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by smfjaw 3y ago
It's a great thing to do, I get the warm fuzzies when I help someone on a mailing list,even on big projects like Apache Spark, I'm not the smartest guy and can't help write a query planner but if I can help someone fix a bug
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by smfjaw 3y ago
that's such a sad statistic, people in the prime of their life, mainly caused by being out enjoying life at the wrong time
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by smfjaw 3y ago
My computer programs always crashed in my first year of college, clear sign computers fail spectacularly
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by smfjaw 3y ago
you took on the settlement risk and got paid for it, if you look into financial markets and central clearing and OTC contracts, central clearing/exchanges effectively get rid of that issue.
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by smfjaw 3y ago
I somehow think the ccp might look favourably and ignore some liabilities if someone else becomes the new bag holder, you know, saving their RE industry and stuff
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by smfjaw 3y ago
seems you missed a vital step of selecting something after your search
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by smfjaw 3y ago
I was being a bit naive/non-descript in my first comment but I'm a pretty firm believer they already had some secret sauce that could do the same job of summarising the information they collect into a human useable level
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by smfjaw 3y ago
Haven't we been in that era since the Patriot Act and Five Eyes?
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by smfjaw 3y ago
Cambridge did a great study on how 'real' these credits are https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/carbon-credits-hot-air
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by smfjaw 3y ago
I really really like partitioned data formats like Parquet/Delta etc that allow this for this reason. Often do stuff like this in our data warehouse but hadn't thought of 'psuedo partitioning' the data like this on an op
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by smfjaw 3y ago
What do I care if the King of Sweden does the math problem or the guy at the desk next to me? Only knowing the answer is correct is what matters to me
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by smfjaw 3y ago
ML Flow solves most of these issues for models, I haven't used it in relation to data versioning but it solves most model versioning and deployment management things I can think of
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by smfjaw 3y ago
I worked at a rather large bank at the start of covid and we overnighted a bit of networking kit on a first class flight when everything was more or less grounded, I think there was a 50x multiple to the cost of the item vs the cost of tran
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by smfjaw 3y ago
Love stuff like this, it's how kids get into computers. I used to make minecraft servers for my friends and I to play on when I was 12, which lead to a software engineering career. Sounds like you've got something similar on your
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by smfjaw 3y ago
I'm not trying to be a dick but I'm having a hard time relating this to data science or agile and then specific mentions of things like APIs over Databases. What's the goal of this?

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