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by bfung 4y ago
The key insight is that a recursive function can be transformed into an iterative function. From there, convert the iterative function to a circuit w/clock cycles.
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by bfung 4y ago
Living and working in tech in Bay Area 2010-2020, rest & vest google perception started circa 2013-2014.
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by bfung 4y ago
Feature request: unicode pls!
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by bfung 4y ago
All depends on how any term is used (the context!). Used to discriminate or say something bad, ex: “<this color skin people> are annoying“, of course it’d be derogatory. For this headline, it’s trying to capture the right small group(
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by bfung 4y ago
Very clear in the article: The Agile role in our Tech organization was critical to our earlier transformation phases but as our organization matured, the natural next step is to integrate agile delivery processes directly into our cor
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by bfung 4y ago
Tangent, but more meme marketing name suggestion: how does the knight move? https://youtu.be/wfDCLEAU9hE
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by bfung 4y ago
IANAL Perhaps an unpopular leading question/answer, but who owns that particular Slack account? If the company owns <ex-employee>@<company.com>’s as the login, they own it and it’s not really “you”/“yours” ~
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by bfung 4y ago
A couple strategies come to mind, but may need a bit of tweaking for your specific situation. Code style: mostly an already lost cause debate between two coders. Pick a third party style that you both can agree to use and agree never to ad
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by bfung 4y ago
Even more fundamental, if you had multiple computers and needed to network them up, they required a name to be referenced by. Computers on the same network ended up with names from a common theme.
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by bfung 4y ago
> Many of them are academic or quant types who seem to have some complex about being “bad at coding”. Glad I’m not the only one who’s noticed this. Coupled with this (which leads to: [I’m bad at coding so I won’t spend effort doing it ev
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by bfung 4y ago
I’d be interested to speculate how cryptocoins would fair also, not that it isn’t already a sh1t show XD
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by bfung 4y ago
Cool, didn’t know that!
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by bfung 4y ago
A bit more specifically, looks like pyright was designed to serve as a language server for VS Code. This means being able to incrementally type check incomplete code blocks and to also infer & suggest types, where mypy is too slow and&#
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by bfung 4y ago
> breadth-first loading. The ideal solution requires us to load the data in a breadth-first approach, but unfortunately, this is harder to write because it does not compose well. The author finds the simplest and efficient solution, but
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by bfung 4y ago
Let’s say the job is trading derivatives, and the more data available, the better the trades. However, the data is never available until mid-day the day before (it’s all news based). The deadline is next trading day. You have 16hrs to make
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by bfung 4y ago
This statement actually got me thinking: > I get paid because of my expertise. Agree. > You cant’s compensate me enough to put in more than 40-45 hours a week Disagree. (There’s probably a speed to results + pay that has value here) T
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by bfung 4y ago
It’s still probably not that simple; the problem seems like it can be analogous to some sort of knapsack and/or traveling salesman problem, which are NP-hard! Even testing would take a long time.
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by bfung 4y ago
For sure, pydata ecosystem is one of the worst offenders. Yeah, the libraries make it easy to do that 1 off model -- shove it in production and watch the next 3-6 months be a pagerduty fest for both the model writer and ops/backend pe
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by bfung 4y ago
The only argument PEP 690 has is A) [performance on startup] or B) [when import functions is not used] in main body of the code. For B), easy enough to run one of many linters to detect this case and have people write less bad code. A) is w
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by bfung 4y ago
1. Employees, esp the ones with more authority and up the management chain, has a lot at stake in stock compensation. 2. Having and holding inventory, while not bad, creates a whole slew of internal supply chain challenges. Unsure if Tesla
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by bfung 4y ago
No - The discounts are happening because of the Inflation Reduction Act that take effect in 2023. The IRA would give a $3500 tax credit for purchasing an EV, like Tesla Model Y. It takes about ~6 months for people who order a Tesla to get
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by bfung 4y ago
In Silicon Valley back in 2014, when the seeds of ML/DS started to get traction, all the people with Data Science titles knew how to write Java webapps or Hadoop MR jobs to ingest, clean, transform, model/analyze, and serve result
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by bfung 4y ago
The context to my post are the reliability issues that def. can be instrumented and fixed. Business and pricing model not so much unless the engineer is willing to add the Sales prefix to their engineer role ;) But even the pricing model -
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by bfung 4y ago
> Engineers aren't generally setting the priorities on what gets fixed A good engineer would be like: “f—k it, I fixed it.” And the priorities would then get shifted around it. Identifying when this is the right time to act and fixi
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by bfung 4y ago
If you have 3 year olds, get ready for more baby shark and let it go.
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by bfung 4y ago
It’s there in the first sentence, though def not so clear as it’s not capitalized: Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
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by bfung 4y ago
It's true. The people saying Nobody Wants to Work Anymore are the ones who truly don't want to work - they just want to tell other people [what|how|when|where] to work. There's also those who don't want to work by tellin
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by bfung 4y ago
There’s some salesmanship in boring but critical work also. A younger me would scoff at needing to “sell/pitch” my work, but limited attention spans are real; busy bosses have no time to read the code. For the boring yet critical work,
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by bfung 4y ago
Perhaps unpopular opinion, but the recent Elon/twitter “submit your work” idea and this ain’t far from each other.
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by bfung 4y ago
Ya’ll complaining about not being able to update a published page: There is an edit and preview mode to draft the doc. Hence once something is published, it’s actual GOOD that the original cannot be edited. Write a correction/apology&#

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