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by tfederman 11mo ago
It's not a big data set that lends itself primarily to analysis, it's more like content. For example, a list of all US Presidents with a lot of metadata or text content fields about them collected/combined from different sour
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Ask HN: Is archive.org a good place for structured data?
3 points by tfederman 11mo ago|2 comments
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by tfederman 1y ago
In the GPT-2 era I created CouldReads, a big data set of generated book titles/synopses trained on thousands of e-books. It was a fun project in the naivete of 2020 but it's less amusing now.
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Ask HN: Any recommendations for help with (engineering) career presentation?
2 points by tfederman 1y ago|1 comments
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by tfederman 1y ago
A while back I wrote up a way to turn the big Wikipedia XML dump into a database. Not a generic table with articles but thousands of tables, one for each article "type". I'm not sure if this is still the best way to go about
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by tfederman 1y ago
That looks like a crowdsourced project for turning arbitrary sites into RSS which is very cool, but I don't see a way to get a large RSS data set out of it. And with about 5000 sources (I think) it's not as large as what I was hop
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Show HN: Fountain of RSS – 30k active feeds and code for sourcing more(github.com)
2 points by tfederman 1y ago|3 comments
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by tfederman 1y ago
RSS reader through Bluesky custom feeds: https://github.com/tfederman/stroma-news Bluesky API library spun off from the other project: https://github.com/tfederman/pysky Haven't really starte
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by tfederman 3y ago
Just for fun I wanted to do a simple server-side version of this where the submissions would be truly hidden on my account, so it would take effect on mobile too. And avoid client side artifacts like messed up numbering. https://
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by tfederman 3y ago
If anyone's interested in an approach to processing the data set quickly, I got something working and wrote it up when I was curious about turning the content into structured data for database tables. https://feder001.com&#x
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by tfederman 12y ago
That's maybe true, and also a good reason I wouldn't work for a large company again.
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by tfederman 12y ago
My company just doesn't have product or project managers and it's wonderful. Fewer meetings, no intermediaries, more agility. It could only work in practice, it could never work in theory.
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by tfederman 12y ago
I feel like I spend a troubling amount of time as a software developer dealing with and/or avoiding solutions that are much more complicated than the problems they're trying to solve.
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by tfederman 12y ago
When I take notes because I need to retain something, the writing part is more valuable than reviewing it later. And writing on paper is important, typing isn't effective for that part. When I take notes just to record details that I c
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by tfederman 12y ago
At this point I already get my stuff from Amazon fast enough, and I don't even have a prime account. I'd rather see Amazon improve working conditions for its employees (if what that I've read about that is true) than chase th
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by tfederman 12y ago
When someone gets entertainment value from playing the lottery, is it really about the chance of winning multiplied by the amount of happiness the money would bring? Or does it have more to do with the excitement that comes with each drawin
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by tfederman 12y ago
When the expected value is so definitively against you I guess it's implied that you're playing for variance. Maybe you also feel that you're playing for the entertainment value, which isn't subject to the same mathemati
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by tfederman 12y ago
When I saw the title my first instinct was, okay, what's the metaphor between a beehive and a development team or a startup? You could find some parallels, but I agree this article is better.
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by tfederman 12y ago
Maybe it's hard to find Facebook essential (as opposed to convenient) if you lived during a time when you had to actually know your friends' phone numbers and enter them manually. As I did. Anyone you're close to you have a w
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by tfederman 12y ago
There's a good selection and it's weighted towards earlier seasons which is good but unfortunately no Manos or Santa Claus Conquers the Martians yet.
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by tfederman 12y ago
I'd like to see a social news site that costs something like $25-50 to join. Enough to keep out kids, spammers, and trolls, but not enough to keep out serious adults.
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by tfederman 12y ago
I wonder if the PepsiCo Healthy Living program directed people to consume fewer PepsiCo products. It seems awkward for them to either address or ignore.
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by tfederman 12y ago
I don't know what's worse, the sense of entitlement to good grades or whatever thinking is behind the feeling your life is ruined if you can't work at Goldman Sachs.
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by tfederman 12y ago
Cogo Labs - Cambridge, MA (Kendall Square) Cogo Labs is an incubator/accelerator behind fast-growing analytics-driven startups. We're growing fast ourselves and hiring for many positions: http://cogolabs.com/career
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by tfederman 12y ago
To be fair, most of CNN's budget goes to advancing holography science, not astrophysics or investigating/analyzing news.