jerzyt

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by jerzyt 6y ago
The situation in EU may be different than in the US. We also have the age issue, but I think the age is a red herring. People in tech change jobs so often that nobody is hiring for lifetime employment anymore. The best people leave in 2
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Sears has been around for about a 100 years, and they have invented the catalog sales model - they were the Amazon of that era. I don't blame them for not doing things like A/B testing a 100 years ago, but 10 or 20? They were as
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by jerzyt 6y ago
A better question would be why AI works great for some business (e.g. Netflix, AirBnB, Uber, Waze, Amazon) yet fails miserably for other (JC Penney, Sears). In my view, the older companies are trying to strap on AI on top of a traditional d
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by jerzyt 6y ago
So based on the alligator entry in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator , alligators are native only to US in China. Given the geographic distance, how is it possible that: a. they are the same species, o
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Is your code on github? I'm actually working on something very similar, and would love to get some ideas from what you've done.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
First, kudos to the OP. If you don't mind, would you compare and contrast it to newspaper3k?
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Take a look at this. It's my daughter's retelling of the whole story of this project. I think she did a great job of showing the progress. I'd probably emphasize slightly different aspects, depending on the pains the next
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I have done the same thing last year. Yes, it's a lot of work, it did take me over a year. And yes, it's extremely satisfying. I did it on a condo for Airbnb rental. Here's the link to show what it looks like: https:&#x2F
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I'm working on gerrymandering. Both parties claim that the other party is better at it. My hypothesis is that some gerrymandered districts benefit the incumbent to the point of actually benefiting the opposing party in the adjacent d
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I don't think you can institutionalize remote work. The team has to gel. I've worked with extremely efficient and motivated team, where we basically communicated through Skype and chat. We met at the office once a week. Best jo
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I was just about to write a review along the same lines, but you did it already. The article is not going anywhere, just rambling along.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Oh great, someone is down voting me. Another four hours later, and I'm still showing #81 in the queue.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Interesting, I always thought it was the taxi companies lobbies that stopped that. Never thought about the parking lobbies, but it sure makes sense.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Yeah, let me know when it actually works. Started at about 1200 in the queue and 4 hours later I'm still number 81, and have been sitting at 81 for the last hour. Sounds interesting, but I think you launched too soon.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
The biggest stupidity in LA is that the train does not reach LAX, but ends a couple miles short of it. This alone would greatly reduce LA traffic. What city planners didn't see that?
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by jerzyt 6y ago
There are so many people who don't mind being stuck at "sucking at something" it's outright scary. I'm currently learning Python, and very frequently I feel that my solution is not elegant, and I hate it. I imagine
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Client data confidentiality. I know it's a weak argument, but if the contract requires that we store data in-house, there's no choice.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Medically, they are different, but the risk factors are very similar, and I can't see why the quarantine would change the ratio of the two.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
It would be nice for Fitbit to publish some research. They have the data.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I'm not replying to myself but to all who posted to confirm my suspicion. I'm amazed that I've been so blind to it. It's so blatant. And now it makes sense how many of the challenges are: traffic lights, school buses,
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Thanks for the link. Interestingly, I grew up in Poland, under Marxism-Leninism, but none of his books were ever pushed on us, so this is somewhat of a surprise for me. I'm going to give it at least a quick scan to get an idea.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Which one of Lenin's books do you have in mind? I haven't read any personally, but he's not usually referenced with any of the others. Clausewitz, on the other hand, definitely qualifies, although it's a much longer read
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by jerzyt 6y ago
It just occurred to me that Machiavelli could be grouped with Sun Tzu and Saul Alinsky - each one of them wrote an incredibly insightful and influential book on strategy or leadership. Are there any other authors/books in this category
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I've been wondering if the captchas are Google's way to get cheap image classification by humans.
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In real financial data you'll often see departures from the Benford's law. For example, if a company has $50 expense limit for dinner, you'll find a lot of invoices for $49.99. Same goes with approval limits at different man
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Does anyone know what percentage of the call centers are not actual employees but contractors? The contractors are usually demand based, therefore "invisible" in these stats.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I really like you being open minded about it. Kudos for that. I see a lot that a lot of online retailers want you to create an account before you can browse. You can browse Amazon, the biggest online retailer, without an account. Somethi
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I completely agree. So many business shoot themselves in the foot requiring to sign up to quickly. At least let me have a taste of what I'm signing up for. Quite often there's a complete mismatch between my needs and the vendor&
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Fundamentally, the issue is that in real time you may not be able to make the trade that your algorithm chose. You could get close if you had the actual book prices at any given time, but even then, you might lose to someone who is 1 millis
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Thanks for sharing - great info. I still think that the potential energy (no pun intended) is huge, so if the engineering challenges are solved, it may not compete with solar, but should be competitive with wind.

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