Vermin2000

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by Vermin2000 1mo ago
National Association of Realtors | Chicago or Washington DC - ONSITE | Data Analyst | Full Time We want Python + Pandas, SQL, statistics, data visualization and some AI; the usual data science stack. Job is in-depth data analysis across mul
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by Vermin2000 2mo ago
Data analyst | Chicago, IL or Washington DC only| No visa sponsorship National Association of Realtors is hiring a data analyst to work with customer data and to work on AI-enabled projects. We're looking for Python and SQL with some s
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by Vermin2000 4mo ago
Some ways of getting into space from the earth.
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by Vermin2000 4mo ago
Different ways of getting to space and a view of how likely/mature they are.
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Army runs secret wargames under central London(bbc.com)
5 points by Vermin2000 5mo ago|1 comments
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by Vermin2000 5mo ago
British Army runs a war game in a disused part of a tube station in central London.
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Rotating Space Habitats(blog.engora.com)
6 points by Vermin2000 6mo ago|1 comments
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by Vermin2000 6mo ago
Some musings I had on what life would be like inside a rotating space habitat.
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Ralph for Beginners(blog.engora.com)
8 points by Vermin2000 6mo ago|2 comments
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by Vermin2000 6mo ago
I had trouble getting a Ralph loop going, so I've written some notes in the hope they'll help other people get started faster.
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Rendezvous with Rama(blog.engora.com)
104 points by Vermin2000 7mo ago|120 comments
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by Vermin2000 7mo ago
Some thoughts on the novel: its strengths and weaknesses, why it's so different from other first contact novels. I'd love to hear people's views of the novel.
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Amtrak's Largest Train Revamp in 55 Years Is Coming Soon(nytimes.com)
5 points by Vermin2000 8mo ago|1 comments
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by Vermin2000 8mo ago
New trains for Amtrak in the US. Better than before, but still a long way behind the best in Europe and Asia. The manufacturing process seems crazily manual.
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The Perceptron(blog.engora.com)
2 points by Vermin2000 8mo ago|1 comments
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by Vermin2000 8mo ago
A blog post about what it was, how it worked, and the controversy surrounding it. It's a key piece of the modern AI story, but also a cautionary tale.
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Learning by hand is better than learning by AI(blog.engora.com)
1 points by Vermin2000 8mo ago|1 comments
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by Vermin2000 8mo ago
Some thoughts on why AI-assisted learning of APIs doesn't really work and why it's better to hand code stuff if you're learning. Love to hear what people think.
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Using Replit and Cursor to build the same app(blog.engora.com)
2 points by Vermin2000 9mo ago|1 comments
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by Vermin2000 9mo ago
An opinionated blog post on using both Replit and Cursor to build the same app. Which one wins? Would love to hear people's thoughts.
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The Siren Song – all about sirens(blog.engora.com)
1 points by Vermin2000 9mo ago|2 comments
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by Vermin2000 9mo ago
A blog post about sirens. What they are, how they work, and where to go if you want to hear them.
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Why are weather forecasting sites so bad?(blog.engora.com)
3 points by Vermin2000 9mo ago|1 comments
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by Vermin2000 9mo ago
Weather forecasting sites are unnecessarily hard to use. The NWS data is free and easy to access, so I built an app with AI that gives me what I want. If I can do this so easily, what other markets will be disrupted?
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Whiskey Prices(blog.engora.com)
1 points by Vermin2000 10mo ago|1 comments
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by Vermin2000 10mo ago
I've gathered some data on how the price of single malt Scotch whiskey varies with age (some 50 year olds retail over $30,000). I've dug into the dynamics of the industry to find out why!
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Small Adventures with Small Language Models(blog.engora.com)
1 points by Vermin2000 10mo ago|1 comments
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by Vermin2000 10mo ago
Here's what I found out trying out small language models (SLMs) on my local machine: they're good, but you need a powerful machine to run them properly.
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Is the Poisson distribution useful for modeling goals?(blog.engora.com)
1 points by Vermin2000 10mo ago|1 comments
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by Vermin2000 10mo ago
It turns out, the Poisson distribution is great for modeling football goals at the league level, but not so much at the club level, despite what's been said on football modeling sites.

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