lifeslogit

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by lifeslogit 3y ago
I'm pretty sure most of us DS know about significant digits and are usually calculating the maximum to enable future flexibility. For a single output, I can understand how you'd be upset we don't round. But for the 20+ column
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by lifeslogit 5y ago
In fraud analysis, we look for these red flags! Fraudsters come to the office earlier and stay later than others. They take on as much as possible to expand their access and take no vacations to make it so that others never review their wor
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by lifeslogit 5y ago
In fraud analysis, we look for too much access (what we call improper segregation of duties). This is pretty common at smaller organizations, so it can help to look for additional red flags. Fraudsters commonly show up earlier and stay late
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by lifeslogit 5y ago
For many years my partner and I operated in the same way. I paid our rent, utilities and food while she spent on her hobbies and saved. I was not unhappy during this time because I didn't want much. A few years ago though, I became a b
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by lifeslogit 6y ago
That is very interesting to hear! I imagined that this was the perfect storm for HFT. Lots of retail investors using default exchange routing settings via brokers like Robinhood and ETrade that sell their order flow. Meanwhile these retail
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by lifeslogit 6y ago
The tragedy of the commons is a great launching point for understanding this problem. Managing fish populations is one of the best examples. For further reading, I suggest folks check out Elinor Ostrom, an economist who spent time developin
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by lifeslogit 6y ago
my first fugue https://soundcloud.com/peter-mullen-2/babys-first-fugue
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by lifeslogit 6y ago
For a researcher, this difference can lead to deep unhappiness. I moved from a research-heavy institution to a founder-heavy culture thinking the freedom and increased salary would lead to improved happiness, however this was very far from
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by lifeslogit 6y ago
Seconding this. fast.ai has greatly emphasized practical approaches for those interested in building deep learning applications. While I haven't completed their Deep Learning from the Foundations course, I don't know of any other
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by lifeslogit 7y ago
Do whatever it takes to get you in the working mood. All tips aim to solve this abstract problem. I used to move all the furniture in our NYC apartment and set up all my monitors, then take them all down and move it all back at the end of t
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by lifeslogit 7y ago
There are layers of each problem space that benefit from optimization and good design more than others, however, most solutions still need all the other layers to be useful. I've had extreme success being a data generalist at a mid-siz
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by lifeslogit 7y ago
Some other ways Brokers make money: Market Making operations that leverage the same infrastructure and market position, Interest on Margin, Stock Loan/Borrow activity with other Brokers, and Market Data Access. Still with these items,
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by lifeslogit 7y ago
We keep it very simple as well. Postgres read-replica for cheap realtime stuff, Redshift for the larger sets, Airflow to manage transfers, and Metabase to visualize and share. We also collect data from a bunch of APIs, but those each run vi
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by lifeslogit 7y ago
I experienced lots of bullying. It messed me up real good emotionally. It also greatly informed my worldview (for better or for worse). So the details about the bullying: public north-eastern grade & middle school: physical bullying dur