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by auxym 9y ago
Isn't postman electron too?
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by auxym 9y ago
Meh, at least my (mechanical engineering) degree wasn't. Sure, you learn some mathematical tools that can help you solve some very practical problems, but it stops about there. I was not taught anything close to creative mathematical
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by auxym 9y ago
I'm canadian so have never taken these tests, but I was under the impression that a large component of scoring well on them is cramming?
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by auxym 9y ago
As the linked article in parent post points out, this was an open problem in CS for 12 years before someone came up with the tortoise and hare algorithm. You really expect a candidate to come up with it from the top of their head, in a few
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by auxym 9y ago
My point wasn't really the distinction between engineering and programming, but between everything IT-related (red-hot job market) and all-other-STEM related (not so hot job market): sciences (chem, bio, physics, math) and traditional
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by auxym 9y ago
Maybe in SV and other tech centers. In "flyover country" and the midsize college town I quite enjoy living in, indeed currently returns only a handful of BI-related postings for search terms like data analyst. Web developer return
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by auxym 9y ago
>In fact, I have a feeling that computer programming is the stick that's holding the entire STEM tent up---if not for programming as a consolation prize you'd have a whole lot of physics and chemical engineers making lattes at
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by auxym 9y ago
I'm not trying to make a point (namely, that programming isn't engineering) here, but for kicks, here's something I was told by an experienced (mechanical) engineer when I obtained my engineering license after 3 years experie
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by auxym 9y ago
I'd still ask for the definition of factorial. Sure, for various reasons, most programmers know the factorial, but I'd consider remembering the definition of some mathematical operation only common in certain domains (statistics a
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by auxym 9y ago
Numpy can be compiled against a multi-threaded BLAS, for example MKL.
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by auxym 9y ago
Pretty sure you can do it in Groovy, which integrates very well with Java, if you need that. Java is a pretty rigid and verbose language in general.
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by auxym 9y ago
I think the important question here is, why do you want to learn? That will have a great effect on the answer. As others have said though, if you have never-ever programmed, python will be a gentle an introduction as they come.
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by auxym 9y ago
It is in Canada, Europe...
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by auxym 9y ago
> separate files instead of one massive one, yay! Matlab doesn't give you a choice here... every single function has to go in its own file. I'm also not a huge fan of matlab.
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by auxym 9y ago
Before you launch into a "recode the whole thing" project, read this: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... Having your code base in python would be great, but do consider
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by auxym 9y ago
Exactly the same setup here!
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by auxym 9y ago
Pandas is however limited to what can fit in memory, and can hit that limit pretty quick, unfortunately. If your CSVs are pretty big, or your machine is limited in memory, you could consider dask dataframes. It is supposed to have a similar
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by auxym 9y ago
In the past when I've had to insert many rows (for example), I wrapped it inside a transaction. Why and when would someone use executemany() instead? Or does executemany() do a transaction behind the scenes?
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by auxym 9y ago
Heck, even replacing beef by chicken or farmed fish is a lot less resource intensive.
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by auxym 9y ago
Months to years to liquidate stock? For most people? I can't imagine selling a position would have any influence on price until it's a significant percentage of the market cap. The median cap of the Russell 2000 (an american small
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by auxym 9y ago
GP's example of 5 years is a very short timeframe, however. A big part of achieving financial independence is compound interest returns on investments in low-fee index funds. Try a quick spreadsheet for yourself. You can assume 5-6 %
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by auxym 9y ago
To add on to this, I found the recent reddit AMA with Bill Bengen (first author on that Trinity paper) highly interesting: https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/comments/6vaz...
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by auxym 9y ago
MMM does have this: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/07/25/50-jobs-over-50000... Web dev is great for a lot of people, perhaps not for everyone. As for MMM is general, I personally love his style. I reme
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by auxym 9y ago
As opposed to current president, who is quite dashing and the smooth speaker.
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by auxym 9y ago
I was not able to update anything anymore due to some complex dependency problem that could not be resolved and seemed to be circular. This happened twice with Ubuntu and another debian-based distro. Granted, I admit I mess around a bit w
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by auxym 9y ago
The main reason I stay away from anything debian based these days is apt. I've been stuck in apt-hell a few too many times. Antergos (arch-based) seems to be treating me well.
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by auxym 9y ago
As a unix sysadmin, my dad worked on tru64 in the 2000's. Mostly switched to linux/vmware in the last years before he retired though.
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by auxym 9y ago
The first line of Vancouver's fully automated Skytrain was deployed in 1986! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver) Similar systems exist around the world: JFK Airtrain, Kuala Lumpur LRT, a few places
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by auxym 9y ago
A pretty popular avalanche safety book [1] has, in the introduction, an actuarial table of your survival probability if you keep going out in avalanche terrain x days a year, year after year... [1] http://www.mountaineersbooks.or
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by auxym 9y ago
What's keeping you on Matlab? In my experience it's mostly the domain-specific libraries or Simulink. The core matrix-y stuff can pretty much all be ported to Python with similar or better perfomance, especially using Numba.

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