beforeolives

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by beforeolives 5y ago
Seriously, I'm struggling to understand things that I already know.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
Can anyone explain the need for redis in a clear way for someone who knows how databases work but isn't a backend developer? What alternatives are there? What did people do to solve the same problem before redis existed?
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by beforeolives 5y ago
Do people really use this or any other of the cheatsheets you find online? In my experience, any cheat sheet that I didn't make myself is useless to me. Going directly to the sheet without having done the synthesis of information yours
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by beforeolives 5y ago
Mark your post as "Show HN". There's no way I will comment on your side project after I was tricked into reading about it.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
Who is doing dependencies right in your opinion? Because it feels like it's a complaint I hear about every language.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
Aren't most of these holdings through funds? It's not Blackrock, Vanguard or Fidelity that's holding those shares, it's people and institutions who are investing in their funds.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
I have geniunely considered switching away from data science altogether for this reason.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
If you want to do market research, you need to either be more upfront about it or to disguise it much better. This post just feels like bad clickbait.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
> In real-estate or the stock market and finance in general, $20k is the short stack gone all in. It’s dumb money at the table. I don't get how this can be true. $20 000 invested in some company/fund/asset gives you the sa
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by beforeolives 5y ago
The most fascinating thing about this is that the author's first two programming languages are Julia and Rust.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
Any reason to choose Rust over Go in your case?
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by beforeolives 5y ago
> because apparently everything data mining/ML related in R is actually just python Everything? I'm just wondering what you've been doing exactly. I know that Tensorflow in R is just a wrapper on top of Python, not sure wh
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by beforeolives 5y ago
The title is kind of misleading - the book is more of a list of exceptions, edge cases, unexpected behaviour and other gotchas.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
I think that e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0 is massively overrated. Because the beauty that people find is largely based on the symbols that are present and because it doesn't really say anything meaningful beyond itself. It's not even a formu
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by beforeolives 5y ago
The actual requirement for measure theory is overblown. As long as you've taken single and multivariable calculus, you can study continuous probability without any problems and without even knowing what measure theory is.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
Similarly, one of the most suprising things for me was that complex numbers are built into the language (no imports at all).
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by beforeolives 5y ago
Youtube playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6...
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by beforeolives 5y ago
I would recommend Harvard Stat 110 over MIT's probability courses - https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-probability (you can find full lectures on youtube and the book online)
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by beforeolives 5y ago
On the more extreme end there is Voice Driven Development - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKuRkGkf5HU
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by beforeolives 5y ago
The question is whether this still applies if in the last statement you replace Adderall with social media or "modern music". I've personally found no benefit from deliberately limiting digital stimulation. But these things a
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by beforeolives 5y ago
Do you mean Digital Minimalism? Cal Newport is the author of both Deep Work and Digital Minimalism but the latter book is the one that deals with the topic of the article.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
I would anti-recommend running your own business to people with little direction and/or mental health problems. The stability of a regular job is incredibly valuable to someone like this.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
Hobby projects? I wonder how many of these projects match this pattern: 1. Rust is new and cool and I want to be a Rust developer. 2. There are almost no Rust jobs out there. 3. I don't have original ideas or any actual use cases for t
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by beforeolives 5y ago
Think of it from the opposite direction - If you take only the people who can pass the interview and do well on the job, the ones from top universities/FAANG get more opportunities to interview in the first place. It's much easier
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by beforeolives 5y ago
> A better university matters only if you're able to take advantage of what it offers. There's more to it. A top university gives you a stamp that signals "I was smart enough to get in" for the rest of your career. Th
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by beforeolives 5y ago
Yes, it matters. It doesn't guarantee anything of course but it makes life a bit easier down the road. Go to the best university that will accept you. (I didn't and I think that it was a big mistake)
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by beforeolives 5y ago
No, not always. And "insights" might not even be a part of your job as a data scientist. (I wrote a longer comment about this in the thread, I don't want to repeat it here)
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by beforeolives 5y ago
My perspective on this as a data scientist: Data science as a field (and as a job title) is broad and generally splits into - research - software engineering and data work - product/business decision making With many data science jobs
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by beforeolives 5y ago
Data science been criticised for over 10 years now, sometimes rightfully and sometimes not. As far as the article - imagine that someone pointed out a bunch crappy software practices and poor outcomes, they put the term "software devel
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by beforeolives 5y ago
The job title is too broad to generalise in this way. Many data scientists never touch a dashboard at all, for many others it's a very small part of their job.

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