jrx

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by jrx 4y ago
The question is: what tool to use? I'm a solo developer running a very small kube cluster for my hobby project. I very much wanted to have a declarative version controlled state of my cluster. Every time I try googling solutions I get
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by jrx 5y ago
My reasoning here is as follows: Putin doesn't care about money - he has all the money he needs. He doesn't also care about welfare of average Russian citizens as long as he can stay within power. He cares mostly about staying in
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by jrx 6y ago
Seems like an awesome idea, but the first thing I see when looking at it is that's one big chicken and egg problem - it'll be an awesome platform if it gathers a critical mass of bands and users, but before then probably will feel
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by jrx 7y ago
> This is like if the world's best chess AI had gone from losing high school tournaments to being competitive with Kasparov in less than 3 years. I don't think it's like that at all. On the high level, there is no "ch
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by jrx 8y ago
I've used both in production and I must say I'm a very big proponent of both. Actor model of concurrent computation I think maps very well to, at least my, way of thinking and I think is the most productive way of writing distribu
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by jrx 8y ago
I can share with you one hiring insight I have that goes against your sentiment. I've been hiring for hedge fund research roles for the last three years interviewing ~30 candidates over that period. What I've learned is that it is
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by jrx 8y ago
I've written a blog post about exactly that some time ago, I hope it's at least a bit enjoyable read: https://blog.millionintegrals.com/kelly-criterion-and-invest...
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by jrx 8y ago
I've made some effort to provide a set of similar high-quality implementations available in PyTorch: https://blog.millionintegrals.com/vel-pytorch-meets-baseline... In my opinion PyTorch code is easier to understand an
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by jrx 8y ago
I’d be very interested to hear for which similar problems (games, control problems) reinforcement learning is not the best approach (there exists other, qualitatively better method£. We hear a lot about success stories but not a lot about l
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by jrx 9y ago
Thank you very much for sharing. I can see quite a few very valuable suggestions here. I'll try incorporating that in my way.
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by jrx 9y ago
1. Yes, that happens, although constitutes around 10-15% of work being done. 2. I am certainly listening to any suggestions, but don't necessarily actively encourage it before proposing a solution. Perhaps this is a direction I need to
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by jrx 9y ago
Junior to mid-level.
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by jrx 9y ago
I would like to get a bit of HN feedback on the matter. I am exactly the person mentioned here - an engineer who knows nothing about the management, but because company is growing and we're hiring new people I'm slowly transitioni
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by jrx 9y ago
Hi, I'm a professional (applied) mathematician and a website like that for mathematics is what I always dreamt of making ;) Even tried to apply to YC once with the idea but didn't really get very far with it. The need to provide a
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by jrx 9y ago
I don't know if I'm the only one, but I really see the basic income as a strong force for increasing the inequality, leading to society stagnation and disallowing any social mobility effectively setting in stone current power stru
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by jrx 9y ago
I have very little knowledge about the actual license law, but what is the right way to do that? Let's say there is an open source project published with a very permissive license that has one function you need. Putting the whole proje
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by jrx 11y ago
Amsterdam, Netherlands | Full time | Onsite, relocation Independent View is an asset management firm focusing on quantitative investment strategies. We are a young, energetic, research-driven company consistently outperforming benchmark ret
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Gold standard was bad, but Bitcoin standard is even worse(blog.millionintegrals.com)
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