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by chasely 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | East Coast USA | Remote only - part time Machine learning lead at two late-stage startups, one of which went public. Specialize in taking machine learning workflows from 0-to-1 for companies that see opportunity in automating
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by chasely 4y ago
When my wife and I went, I think we "accidentally" went on this trail. Our philosophy is to do the touristy things, but go just beyond what most do. This meant walking past the shrine and onto the trail network where we ran into a
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by chasely 4y ago
I've been pitched by many "data-driven" vendors offering predictions. They often have very impressive accuracy metrics (RMSE, R2, etc). When I dive into the details these metrics are often reported using in-sample predictions
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by chasely 4y ago
I wonder how IC employees and middle managers will deal with the mandate. Let's assume you manage a team of six engineers and two people decide to just not come into the office but continue working. Will you fire them? It would take 6-
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by chasely 5y ago
Early stage startups founded by scientists? At least that's my use case. - get more traction - I'm less able to focus on the software and have to focus on business development - I'm going to need to hire someone who is a comp
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by chasely 5y ago
Basically all these runs are "limited edition" and are pre-sold. But you can find a lot of people reselling on some markets. I used the one on reddit [0] until keyboards stop being a "hobby" for me. [0] https:/&#x2
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by chasely 5y ago
That post tracks with some of my experiences working in forecasting. Senior leadership loves the DS team until they are told something may not work how they want or reaching their quarterly KPI (which is often tied to their bonus) is infeas
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by chasely 5y ago
I think (hope?!) that the Zestimate and the model predictions in their iBuying business are completely separate. The Zestimate is essentially a top-of-funnel strategy to get home owners and potential buyers into their normal business platfo
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by chasely 5y ago
I'm where you were a while ago. We are having our first kid at the end of this year, and I have finally found a side project that aligns my passions and a potential market. I'm scared of what's to come, knowing that I want to
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by chasely 5y ago
I've been using a highly-tuned emacs configuration as my IDE for a decade now. Each time I want try to switch to VS Code I find that all my weird little shortcuts are going to take a lot of time to re-learn in VS Code. I should really
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by chasely 5y ago
This is pretty cool! Let me know if you ever expand membership to the "public ivies".
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by chasely 5y ago
It's worth noting that one of the original authors of Prophet (Sean Taylor) basically agrees with this and is now on a team at Lyft doing probabilistic forecasting for their marketplace [0]. [0] https://twimlai.com/caus
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by chasely 5y ago
Thank you for your response. This gives me a lot of good questions to think about and answer. I'll try to answer these for myself and probably reach out to chat.
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by chasely 5y ago
I started out using QGIS but since most of my work is in Python I found it frustrating to always tool hop. I then kind of went around QGIS to use tools like GRASS directly, but have recently found python-native tools like xarray to work ver
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Ask HN: Best practices for organizing geospatial data from different sources?
12 points by chasely 5y ago|7 comments
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by chasely 6y ago
I would consider myself straddling the hobbyist/professional line in geospatial computer vision, where high-resolution imagery is very much needed but very expensive. I have lots of small projects I want to work on, but can't brin
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by chasely 6y ago
The people that are getting the highest praise in the subreddit are probably not in that group. We're seeing people investing $10^4 to $10^5 in GME. If they are gambling their entire life savings away, then I guess they got lucky this
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by chasely 6y ago
Funny, I've been looking at buying large plots (50+ acres) of land with similar ideas. I have a hard time with pulling the trigger knowing that the projects become all-encompassing once you get started.
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by chasely 6y ago
I was expecting a much larger number. At $10k/acre for good arable land, that's only 2.4e5 * 1e4 = $2.4B, which is still a fair amount of money.
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by chasely 6y ago
The hard part of RL for the problems I've encountered in my work is that you need a simulator. Building a reliable and accurate simulator is often an immense undertaking.
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by chasely 6y ago
The best news for me would be a service that would be okay with reporting "there was no important news", but that is not how the industry works. I'd be willing to pay for that if when news did happen, the reporting/analy
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by chasely 6y ago
I've found the same thing. I joined the forum about a decade ago, and then went dark for several years. I'll go back to the forum whenever there are changes in my financial picture, or tax law changes. I highly appreciate the user
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by chasely 6y ago
Having had a significant other that worked in journalism, this makes sense to me. Journalism has become a profession which is much easier to follow if you have an "elite" background. It can be a prestigious job, but with a low sal
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by chasely 6y ago
I've been waiting for the next flight sim or Elder Scrolls game to build a new rig. Crazy to think that it's almost surely going to be Flight Simulator that comes first.
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by chasely 7y ago
> 3) There's lots of strategies which don't make enough money for companies to be interested in, but are viable for an individual. Is this because these strategies don't scale well, or is there another reason?
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by chasely 7y ago
My preference is the ones I have experienced in national labs. Probably too many meetings, but when you are done with your meetings you get to go to a dedicated office where you can close the door and get your "deep work" done. Th
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by chasely 7y ago
If I remember correctly, Regus is "WeWork"ifying some of their real estate under the brand Spaces where you get the startup-y interiors. Under this brand they should be able to offer the same benefits as WeWork. I will need to f
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by chasely 7y ago
I can definitely see the benefit for a team working remotely, which may (hopefully) become more common. I think WeWork still has a "local" business model: you rent out space at a specific location for defined periods of time. If t
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by chasely 7y ago
I see myself going down this road as well. I have an international trip coming up that is a little risky for my MBP so I am going to pick up a beater Thinkpad and install Arch. If that works out well my next laptop will likely be the Thinkp
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by chasely 7y ago
There's an interesting history of the Japanese diaspora in Brazil and Peru [0, 1]. Essentially Brazil was looking to "whiten" its country at the same time that Japan was facing economic crises, jumpstarting the immigration. 0

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