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by johnwatson11218 2y ago
The idea of the 3 levels really resonated with the ideas in "Bernoulli's Fallacy" as well. Right now we are seeing a resurgence of Bayesian reasoning across all fields that deal with data and statistical reasoning. I think ma
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by johnwatson11218 2y ago
I think that if you have the skills to manage a software project of any complexity then you, alone can create what teams are doing today. I think AI can characterize proprietary data formats and assist by writing parsers, providing helpfu
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by johnwatson11218 2y ago
Not sure what you guys are trying to say here but I have seen, with my own eyes, large enterprise software systems that end up being so fragile it makes you laugh. The incumbents in this space make dinosaurs look like spring chickens by com
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by johnwatson11218 2y ago
This is the time for AI assisted efforts to merge with open source to deliver alternatives to all these Big Company type proprietary software solutions. I have been thinking of what it would cost to create enterprise workflow and document m
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by johnwatson11218 2y ago
Bernoulli's Fallacy hands down.
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by johnwatson11218 2y ago
Yes that is a lesson I took from it, I'm not sure if it was this class or another one that showed how crypto on a computer could be defeated by monitoring its power consumption while checking a password. Even though the code knew to wa
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by johnwatson11218 2y ago
I took an online cryptography course from this professor a few years back. It was very good. Even though I have a background in math that class made me realize I don't want to be a professional cryptographer, which in itself is pretty
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by johnwatson11218 3y ago
Nice project, I have been working on something like this using pyqt6, something that scans news sites, dumps the urls in a locally running Postgresq, and can grab urls for me to display in a built in web renderer component. I have lots of i
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by johnwatson11218 3y ago
I think finally we will be able to demonstrate that the deep Java-OOP style abstractions were bullshit at most software shops. Unless you are leveraging that stuff to make your code more testable, maintainable, and performant then just leav
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by johnwatson11218 3y ago
I agree with this so much. At my last job, the way I tried to explain it to people was that we normalize our db to prevent data duplication why not our code? Each team had its own StringUtils, DateUtils, etc. etc. But what was worse was tha
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by johnwatson11218 3y ago
Back in 2001 - 2002 I was out of work and it was miserable. I had been doing webdev for 2 years in nyc during the dot com bubble. In addition to looking for work I was also trying to move cross country. I remember days of just spamming my r
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by johnwatson11218 3y ago
I have had three eBikes and I have no doubt they are the future. They are where the internet was in the 90s. My electric mountain bike has been wonderful but all the normal parts like gears, brakes, and tires wear out much faster. One of
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by johnwatson11218 4y ago
Everytime I look into this stuff it is just one table/dataframe. Nobody is modelling the relations between things. I think there is a huge opportunity for a product that can look at Customer, Items, Orders, Returns, Payment_Methods etc
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by johnwatson11218 4y ago
Does anyone know if there are deep learning libraries that can model the relations between table based data? I see many that work on a table or a data frame but where I work our db is over 1000 tables and nobody can understand it. I feel
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by johnwatson11218 5y ago
I have wanted to build something like this for consuming news sites, especially when my ad blocker has to be disabled. But thinking more long term ... what about a ML project that can look at many recipes and do a kind of PCA, figure out
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by johnwatson11218 6y ago
Yea both of my mountain bikes are now tubeless and I agree that it is much less of a hassle. My main point is that everybody is talking about how eBikes can get the older folks back out on the bike but when you start talking about tubes and
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by johnwatson11218 6y ago
Also you can ride up on sidewalks or bike paths. If you come to a long red light but there is no traffic coming it is easy to just run the red light. When you get to the store you can ride right up to the entrance and lock up 10 feet away
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by johnwatson11218 6y ago
For me it has been no need for a recovery day. The barrier to entry for doing a ride is much lower, even if I'm tired I can do a quick 1 hour ride on the eBike. It gets my heartrate up and my blood pumping. If I want I can push my sel
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by johnwatson11218 6y ago
If only they could make the tires easy to fix when you get a flat. Some of these high end tires are nearly impossible to change when you are out on the road.
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by johnwatson11218 6y ago
One point in favor of the eBikes is that no matter how hot it got here in Arizona I was able to do some riding every day of the summer. So long as I had enough water and covered up my skin it seemed OK to hit the trails when it was 115 degr
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by johnwatson11218 6y ago
Not just that but if you live in an American city an eBike can get you closer to that classic "walkable feel" of an older city or a college campus. With my eBike I can get to so many places that are about a 10 minute car ride awa
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by johnwatson11218 6y ago
Great points. I just bought two eBikes in the last six months and I love them so much. One thing that I really hate though is how hard it is to change flat tires and dealing with the bike shops. I can't imagine an older person being ab
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by johnwatson11218 6y ago
By eBike I mean an actual bicycle with an electric motor and a battery. So I do get the breeze and it helps keep me cool with it is over 100 degrees here. Although since I wrote that comment the eBike battery was not charging and I had to
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by johnwatson11218 6y ago
Just want to add that I had bought an eBike right when the pandemic hit in late March. It was so nice that I went ahead and bought a second eBike for mountain biking. I live in Phoenix and normally we have to stop biking in the summer. With
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by johnwatson11218 7y ago
Great point. I signed up for some online cooking schools and the syllabus was one of the more interesting aspects. It helped me to organize my thinking about cooking and helps me to parse recipes and cookbooks more quickly.
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by johnwatson11218 7y ago
If I ever get any actual code running I'll try and post it here.
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by johnwatson11218 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I don't consider myself a world-leading expert on neural networks by any means. I do want to point out that I'm thinking of doing this on a very limited website, not a general purpose thing that replicates
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by johnwatson11218 7y ago
I don't think a caching layer would work. One example would be an online mortgage estimator. You input the loan amount, interest rate, length of loan etc. all as http input parameters. I'm suggesting that the LSTM can eventually
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by johnwatson11218 7y ago
Mutable state in the sense of database writes would be part of the network's output and just passed on to a regular db. Mutable state in the sense of variables that the application code uses while processing a request? Well LSTM networ
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by johnwatson11218 7y ago
I'm suggesting that you take an existing system and build up a corpus of request/response pairs. Then you use the LSTM to build a prediction model so that given a request it will tell you that the current production system will pr

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