ellisv

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   by ellisv 8y ago

   I think they'd have about the same number of customers -- most people I know who lease their car just want to drive something new and not put much effort in to maintaining it. They don't really car about the long term financial do
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   by ellisv 8y ago

   This article [1] was the top google result when I searched "average car ownership length". It reports 79.3 months is the average length that Americans own a vehicle, so a little more than 6 and 1/2 years. Paying more for a ve
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   by ellisv 8y ago

   Came here to post this and “Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View“ by Cosmos Shalizi
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   by ellisv 8y ago

   Just wait until you see Julia's unicode input - you can use pretty emojis instead of ugly "Y%#$ and lower_UPPER_CamelCase"!
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   by ellisv 8y ago

   Powerley | Data Scientist, Android/iOS/Web Developer, Product Manager | Royal Oak, MI | Full-time | http://www.powerley.com/ Powerley is connecting the smart grid to the smart home and building the next generation
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   by ellisv 8y ago

   Just because Apple has a reputation for being secretive doesn't mean they are in this case. Most companies don't go around advertising plans to open a new office or their CEO's meeting schedule.
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   by ellisv 8y ago

   > I want to start writing a technical blog (related to computer science and development) Why? > but almost every topic I think of has been written upon by someone, probably better that what/how I would have written it. So? If you
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   by ellisv 8y ago

   You might be a great candidate but how would anyone know? Something on your application needs to stand out. If you don't have a degree that's fine but recruiters need some way to filter through resumes. I'm generally not a fa
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   by ellisv 9y ago

   Author didn't mention it but you can then list available fonts with `brew search font-`
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    Another one I often see people miss is failing to account for trading fees and taxes.
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    > A few months later walked by a branch and on a whim decided it was a good time to close my account. Walked in, ask to close it, they said I had to wait, I said oh OK that's alright I'll just withdraw all of it. Good riddance.
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    Took the quiz and completely agree. Most questions were either overly concerned with detail or too vague. High-level I don't think a quiz is necessarily the right tool either. Reminds me too much of taking the SAT or GRE.
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    In my opinion YC had some good wins early on but now, especially as the cohorts have gotten much larger, it’s not clear if they’re still “kingmakers”. It would be more impressive if their cohorts were still very small and had a high success
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    Yeah I think it's interesting that companies will setup completely separate dev/prod databases but then grant all permissions to the the user. Roles are powerful and seem underutilized. Most of the time I only need read access so
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    I had forgotten how terrible non-Mac track pads could be until I had to help my mom recover music on her Acer. It makes the entire laptop nearly unusable.
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    I haven't had issues with the dot feature but have run into problems using plus. My problem was that I used a "first.last+website@gmail.com" format when I signed up for a website and some time later I needed to contact custom
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    Data science has 3 areas for "versioning": 1. code versioning 2. data versioning 3. model versioning Code versioning is primarily dominated by GitHub and is a fairly saturated space (Bitbucket, GitLab). Data versioning is either n
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    I disagree. Do you really want to be training large models locally? The effort for Apple to optimize the Mac for ML is not worth it (for anyone). The cloud is cheap and ubiquitous.
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    I think a big part of @tibbon's complaint is the lack of pro software (from Apple).
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    > they are pretty great for that (minus the new keyboard, and that Tensorflow GPU has dropped OS X support). If you're training a model on your laptop, instead of a server, does it really matter? It doesn't seem likely that you
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    I think more details will be announced tomorrow, April 2nd
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    I think this will make more sense once 5G is adopted. But even then carriers will either charge a lot for these data plans and/or severely underdeliver.
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    I don't think so. I've kept my account primarily because I assume they'd have a shadow account on me. Just because you don't have a FB account doesn't mean they don't have data on you.
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    > For FB, can someone explain to me what was the actual damage, was it just personal information about you? FB allowed apps to access data about the user (who authorized the app) and their friends (who did not need to authorize the app
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    > What if a company has a large codebase that's in Python 2 and wants http2? Will those suggesting porting help them bear the costs and manhours it takes? This is why banks still use COBOL and Fortran.
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    > And soon employment/salary? If you just check for two X chromosomes...
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    Applying the model is fast, training it is slow(er). Not that crazy.
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    Sounds like the opposite way FB handled Russian paid political ads for the US election.
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    Reminds me of the guy who foreclosed on Wells Fargo. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/17/patrick-rodgers-fo...
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    by ellisv 9y ago

    I agree. Crypto currencies don’t behave like company stocks. The value of a stock index fund just doesn’t transfer to crypto.