YossarianFrPrez

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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
Perhaps a bit tangential, but the reason there aren't more bio-tech startups given the cited number of bio-tech PhDs is because graduate school / academia doesn't select for "entrepreneurship potential" (broadly def
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
Depending on your use case (particularly if it is research-oriented), "scipy.spatial.distance.cdist" and "scipy.spatial.distance.pdist" are your friends. If you are doing something in production, the PG extension seems
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
I think you are better off with only the second sentence. The first sentence is something your users likely already intuit.
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
You are on the right track, but you haven't reached your destination, so to speak. "Value" isn't a property inherent to the copy on your website (or any text, for that matter), it's a property of the relationship be
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
Kudos to you for asking for honest feedback. I don't mean to pile on; only to clarify something about the pitch on your website. The thing with "problem-solution-result" style descriptions is that they can rely on (insider) k
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
While not precisely "real estate construction" the NSF has funded many construction-related companies through its SBIR program, many of which are pretty cool: https://seedfund.nsf.gov/topics/advanced-materials
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
So basically, if you want to estimate the average of more than three averages, there is a better way to go than just averaging them together. Sort of like how when computing the Standard Deviation for a sample population you divide by n-1 i
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
I tried this and got a funny answer with the strings "bananas" and "pandas": Great! Here are some possible ways to transform string A into B using the provided operations: Insert(p, 0) -> "pananas" Swap(n, 2
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
I have read Vol. 1 of H. A. R. Gibb's translation, and though there are really cool gems in it, it is incredibly dry. I wouldn't recommend it unless you are really interested, and even then, be prepared for it to be a slog. For so
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Lawsuit alleges Simply Orange Juice has high toxic PFAS levels(theguardian.com)
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Glass frogs become see-through by hiding their blood(science.org)
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
For an impressive and beautiful version of the first Well-tempered Clavier prelude, check out Bobby McFerrin singing it while he has the crowd simultaneously sing Gonoud's Ave Maria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Lc
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
Well, you've got the performant code part down. Now for the part which may seem harder: the somewhat harsh reality is other people won't like what you've done until they can understand what you've created. Duck DB's
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
Seem to me like an interactive Demo would be a good next step.
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
General note: up until 1994, there was no law barring universities requiring faculty to retire after a certain age [0], [1]. In other countries, it is not uncommon to have a mandatory retirement age for public servants. The effect of the fe
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
Another factor is that if your department's area is hiring for a new position that you might be a good fit for, your P.I. or advisor is likely on the hiring committee. Thus the committee then has to be wary of nepotism and conflicts of
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
It's somewhat covered in John Gartner's "The Idea Factory: A History of Bell Labs"
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
One key difference is the following: > In January 2013, a judge approved a settlement that would return 93 percent of customers' investments, with the prospect of additional payouts from the company's general estate.
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
It's an interesting level of abstraction question. On a fine-grained level, yes, BTC works algorithmically as you have pointed out, and FFT is not the exact same thing as BTC. The question the is whether either of these things work soc
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
While I agree that those things would harm the popular perception of crypto, continued fraud, theft, and greed are also doing so too.
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
Ooh, that's a good one. Who on earth would underwrite such a thing?
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
What's also interesting is that decision-making power is very rarely fully centralized in large financial companies. Boards of directors, fiduciary duties, third-party audits, attorneys, and so on, all structurally serve to decentraliz
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
I'd be curious to read anyone's thoughts on what would have to happen for crypto to improve its image at this point. Would being regulated exactly like traditional banking / finance be enough? More regulation? Would it be reg
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
I think most people would say that they want banking to be boring.
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
Hmm, tbh, that's a point I hadn't fully considered. To flip your point around, what hypothetical scenario would be bad for the crypto ecosystem long term?
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
Indeed. In a way it reminds me of how easy it is to be utopian if you ignore incentives.
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
I agree that the algorithms powering crypto are sophisticated pieces of technology. Just look at the zero-knowledge proofs. The thing is that "not being regulated like a bank" is exactly what many people like / liked about it
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
Regardless of whether you are pro- or anti- crypto, the collapse of FTX, SBF's bubble bursting in a rather extreme fashion, and now this hack are more nails in the coffin for mainstream support. I am no fan of crypto myself, but it&#x2
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
100% Agreed. To make matters worse, the economic value of the data modeling / computational skills one can learn in graduate school has vastly eclipsed the typical graduate student stipend. Having recently started a graduate program af
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by YossarianFrPrez 4y ago
This is incredible! I've sent it to several people already. Is there any chance you could provide more details as to the tech stack / training / technical setup?

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