IndianAstronaut

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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Discovering Statistics Using R by Andy Field. Fantastic book and very readable and at times hillarious.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Sounds like Capital One as well, which is mirroring Amazon's culture as well as stack ranking system.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
I work under a micromanaging boss (who doubles as a PM). It is stifling. I can't function, get much done, move projects forward, etc. It's horrendous.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Surprised /r/cscareerquestions hasn't been mentioned. It is my goto spot for discussing cs careers and options.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
>That isn't Utopia. That's elitism Vacations once upon a time were just for the elites. A trip from England to Greece was for the very upper crust. Now millions of people can easily make the journey thanks to modern technology.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
NIMBYs are also a major cause of the wealth inequality we are seeing. http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/03/wealth-i...
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Cassini gave us so much amazing information. Lakes on Titan, giant geysers on Encaladus from an underground ocean, a moon that looks like the death star, our first lander on an object further than Mars, etc.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
What is really needed first is rovers on Titan that can explore the lakes, ice deposits and possible geothermal energy there. We already know Enceladus, another of Saturn's moons, has abundant water and heating from Saturn's tidal
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
A penny sized hole in a space suit on Mars could mean a quick death. The lack of an atmosphere on Mars would make it exceedingly difficult to set up a colony there.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
People always seem to forget about this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
>As the language grew in popularity, they were unprepared psychologically for dealing with new or junior programmers: the level of question.. This is so ironic. Go gained popularity fast the same way Python did, because it is easy to use
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
The lack of type checking makes it much harder to coordinate right inputs and outputs. Doable, but makes the overhead much harder than when you do have it.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Reminds me of this. Slightly nsfw. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=THEv9kSVJw0
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
I think Python is amazing to get small stuff ip and running and quick scripts, but it quickly becomes a nightmare as the project scales up.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Well...I somewhat cheat here. I ignore papers without any code or coded examples. I don't have the time or patience to implement something just from raw equations.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Reading papers is so crucial. It is a great way to get ideas and apply them. I was able to set up some really good tree based forecasting models based on a PhD dissertation I had read once.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Long story short, she designed a project with an Angular UI and staked some internal political capital on it. She hired a pretty awful Angular dev who took several months to build up a UI and then abruptly left the company. She wanted me to
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
>Take responsibility for yourself. My last statement basically said just that. I am taking responsibility for my own growth rather than rely on management. My manager even asking me these questions is really a silly exercise so when revi
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
I have plenty of career conversations with my manager. But it goes nowhere. Lots of talk and no action. "I want to learn more about forecasting models", "definitely". No forecasting work given and even side projects are
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
There are hundreds of individuals at my financial services company that have access to millions of social security numbers. Very easy for that information to leak out.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
>There is a limit to human needs. There is however no limit to human wants.
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NASA under Trump(planetary.org)
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
People don't realize that the tractor was basically the number one job killer for humanity. We went from 70%+ of the population involved in farming to less than 3%. We created new industries and jobs from that and we will do so again.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
As a cyclist in SF, have you encountered any self driving cars? Were they aware of your presence on the road and able to maneuver around you?
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Rio de Janeiro is a war zone. Drug traffickers control large parts of the city and thousands are killed every year. They use military police units to bring law and order. Similar situation for Karachi.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Setting up bitesize tasks is the best way to make progress. Add a new div to my page today, set up a function to handle it tomorrow, clean up a page after, etc.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Does this indicate if it will include a REST API to build some quick applications off of or is it easier to return a JSON from a query?
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Another interesting use case for Solr is to use it as a prebuilt backend with a REST API for a data based web service/dashboard. We have had quite a bit of luck doing this and getting our service up and running was quite a bit faster t
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
How do you handle the data for Solr with AWS rehydration? We are constantly taking backups of the data into S3 to then use to put data back into Solr.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
As a commiter, are there plans to improve the SOLR SQL interface and add features to make it more in line with standard SQL? Also, any plans on adding search syntax to the SQL?

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