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Thanks for the answer! Interesting to hear what you're doing now, as it's something I've been eyeing myself. Aside from money, do you find interesting opportuni

by mercer 10y ago

Thanks for the answer! Interesting to hear what you're doing now, as it's something I've been eyeing myself. Aside from money, do you find interesting opportunities/problems to look into? (one recent little example of what made me think of this was the scene in the documentary Spotlight where the journalist analyze volumes of data on priests' assignments and whatnot - all by hand. I couldn't help but think it'd be so much easier to OCR the pages and analyze the data with some basic scripting.)

bpchaps 10y ago
Yep, I'm doing a ton of things right. It's really enjoyable and I highly recommend it. :) Just to name some.. -Working on the IT infrastructure and one of the 5 or so founders of a 160p LAN party. -Data analysis of Chicago parking tickets: https://plot.ly/~red-bin/6.embed https://plot.ly/~red-bin/6.embed -Sued the mayor of Chicago for his phone records and won. Still working on it, but I met up with a journalist to discuss last Monday. -Doing HFT systems tuning as freelance (pays the bills, too). -Submitted a major infrastructure bug to comcast. Talked to their CISO and everything. -Did the same for Northwestern, but with less followthrough. -Learned a bit of R, significantly improved my python, did a bunch of random silly projects. -Made a proof of concept for a domestic violence shelter finder for a hackathon. Just handed off the code to a few junior coders to ride with. -Made a minecraft 3d printer print a png mural by pulling from github in-game. Limited myself to only using textures in the game without color transformations. Became a really hard problem, since the 'pixels' used by the printer don't move. Learned more than I'd thought from that project. ..It's fun. :)