StarlaAtNight

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by StarlaAtNight 3y ago
For any of you data folks out there: In this context EDA is Electronic Design Automation, not Exploratory Data Analysis
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by StarlaAtNight 3y ago
Clippyitis
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by StarlaAtNight 3y ago
These online tech spaces always assume that saving on compute, storage, and memory are the ultimate targets for optimization. I’ve worked (mostly on business/data teams) in companies for 10 years, and have to say, saving on technical d
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by StarlaAtNight 3y ago
This HN post might as well have the title “this link goes to a website”
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by StarlaAtNight 3y ago
that's what Home Depot did, and they're a huge customer of GCP
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by StarlaAtNight 3y ago
This one is for spacetime!
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by StarlaAtNight 3y ago
We’re definitely living in a simulation
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by StarlaAtNight 3y ago
I asked ChatGPT to explain this quote to me like I'm a five year old who understands Finance at a B.S. level - here's what it said (pretty good IMHO): Alright, little finance whiz, let's break it down for you. Imagine you hav
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by StarlaAtNight 3y ago
THANK YOU for the book rec. i’ve been wondering how to spend an Amazon gift card and I just found it here Here’s the book synopsis in case anyone else is interested: How honeybees make collective decisions―and what we can learn from this am
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by StarlaAtNight 3y ago
This might be the most Hacker News comment I’ve ever seen Love this site
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by StarlaAtNight 3y ago
Huh?
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by StarlaAtNight 3y ago
I get all three of those w/ my VS Code setup...could you explain in more detail?
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by StarlaAtNight 3y ago
I'm a big fan of the Markdown Preview feature in VS Code Honest question: why do developers insist so much on using command line based tools? What's the advantage over using an IDE? (e.g. VS Code or PyCharm)
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by StarlaAtNight 3y ago
I asked ChatGPT to explain the intro section of this article like I'm five: """ Fourier analysis is like playing with music notes. We have different ways of looking at these notes, like how high or low they are, or how l
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by StarlaAtNight 4y ago
wait, what?
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by StarlaAtNight 4y ago
Can you auto-generate the description of a function in a Python docstring from the code? But yeah, totally into auto-generated (great example is dbt’s docs command: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/collaborate/document
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by StarlaAtNight 4y ago
I FUCKING LOVE THIS AUTHOR
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by StarlaAtNight 4y ago
I SERIOUSLY relate with you on the "anemic examples" part. One of my biggest frustrations with R And granted, this is a complaint for base R and other older spaces in the R world...the tidyverse packages (and modern ones inspired
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by StarlaAtNight 4y ago
oof, that's definitely in the uncanny valley
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by StarlaAtNight 4y ago
Actually pretty useful if you input your email address. It crawls through some kind of knowledge graph I'm seeing stuff I probably need to go clean up from like 10 years ago that's no longer relevant
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by StarlaAtNight 4y ago
My favorite tool in this is PowerRename
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by StarlaAtNight 6y ago
it was pretty wild to hear Hadley Wickham invoke Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in his most recent rstudio::conf keynote - dude is super in tune with how humans use open source data analysis tools
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by StarlaAtNight 6y ago
github really needs to add R Markdown Notebook rendering support (that's the ones that end in extension .nb.html)
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by StarlaAtNight 6y ago
This is visualizing data, not necessarily data structures
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by StarlaAtNight 6y ago
I went to that link, and still don't have a great idea of what the tool actually is
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by StarlaAtNight 7y ago
So there's only 6?
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by StarlaAtNight 7y ago
I read that as Christopher Walken has died
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by StarlaAtNight 9y ago
Banks should most definitely do this. Or maybe provide a link to a CSV file behind a login-wall (so the details passed over email can't be poached as easily)