paddy_m

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I think the django admin is quite an accomplishment of software engineering and functionality. The amount of functionality you can build quickly is impressive. Sure it might not have the slickest UI, but a lot of those slick frontend feat
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I added a github issue to my project where this matters literally this morning. I'd love to talk to someone dealing with the same stuff. I have baked dataframe -> JS serialization utils so many times over the past decade. I never
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by paddy_m 3y ago
Somewhat related, who has played with performant JS dataframe libraries? I mostly want to serialize from pandas/polars to JS in a fast way, with some very minor selection and indexing operations JS side. Ideally I could find a library
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I am an excellent ice skater and decent, not great rollerblader. Rollerblades are difficult to control and stop quickly (haven't mastered the sliding turn quick stop). They are much more sensitive to surface imperfections and slick s
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it gets worse. I have to look up numpy comma/tuple slicing syntax everytime I use it.
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I would love to see an in depth study of Switzerland's freight rail system. Apparently it works well for quick movements of small amounts of freight (single container). From what I can tell, the much lauded US freight rail system only
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Location: Boston Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: talking to users, python, pandas/numpy, jupyter, js/ts Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paddymullen/ Email: paddy@paddymulle
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Can natural rubber be made as soft as synthetic rubber? What kind of rubber is used on race cars (and dirt bikes)? Cost is much less of an issue for those markets.
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Not driving requires even less. It requires the local and state governments to stop making it illegal to build the type of dense walkable neighborhoods that we built until the 1930s. Let landowners build what they deem fit on their own land
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San Francisco (and cities in general) are places of great opportunity. Limiting that opportunity only to incumbents who already live there is stifling to our nation as a whole, and it's cruel. As a thought experiment, what if we treate
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How does splunk compare to datadog and new relic?
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That looks a bit low level. I would look at dask and polars. Dask scales to multiple processes on a single machine and to multiple machines and its dataframe looks pretty close pandas. Polars uses multiple cores on the same machine better
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Ibis could also be a target. It compiles queries written in python to multiple dataframe libraries, and SQL targets. https://ibis-project.org/
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I would really like to see (and work for) a company that is building novel understanding of actual data and schemas with LLMs. Characterizing data and a limited number of transforms for an LLM should produce much more reliable tools than j
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It looks like https://github.com/tencentmusic/supersonic is a component. I'm trying to figure out what they are doing too.
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I have a Steelcase Airtouch desk. I think it's probably the best lifting mechanism on the market, fast, no electronics, single column. I want to make a new base for the mechanism that is much heavier so the desk doesn't move, pr
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Location: Boston Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: talking to users, python, pandas/numpy, jupyter, js/ts Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paddymullen/ Email: paddy@paddymulle
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I implemented a data processing API for customers to write convert and validate their unstructured tabular data in a defined way. For each column a user could specify/override one of 5 functions. cast: (str|null) -> T com
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Was just looking up data sketches to link to what you all are doing.
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It would be nice if the page defined what a minimap is?
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I wish I could find a good enduro (KTM, Beta, Sherco) or motocross bike (KTM, Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki) with zerk fittings for the suspension. The expectation is that you take apart the whole suspension and grease it every 25-50 hours.
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The corollary is also important. If you are writing code you should want it to solve a problem, and for it to be the chosen solution regularly. Make sure people with the problem you are solving know that your solution solves their problem,
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I often find that trying to document code or a product forces me to rethink how I wrote it. Sometimes it's easier to change the code to make the concept simple to grok, then to write the documentation for the hard to grok concept. Th
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I often call this narrative documentation. It's the antidote to Chesterton's Fence and explains the thinking of the programmer who created the thing. How did that programmer expect people to use their tool.
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Location: Newport/Boston/Remote Remote: preferred Willing to relocate: for the right price yes,realistically no Technologies: Python, Pandas, Jupyter, React Email: paddy@paddymullen.com I'm Paddy Mullen[1]. I'm an exper
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I race sailboats. Getting involved in an active fleet that hangs out afterwards is the single best way I have found to make friends. At one point in NYC I was racing on a J/24 part of a crew of 5, we raced against 15-20 other J/
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I first check projects for regular commit history, and long commit history. Next I try to read through issues and PRs to see how the maintainers deal with the community. Finally I try to develop a bit with the package. Stars generally don&
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People forget the plan recommended by Brooks in the Mythical Man Month. Surgical teams with delegated duties led by an experienced surgeon. Positions of a secretary, language lawyer, documentation writer, (and others I forget). I would love
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Paper? I once read a lisp paper that kept defining lisp primitives in terms of simpler lisp primitives until they had only 4-10 primitives. Then the paper started defining those in terms of assembly language (but with parens). In the final
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I want to applaud this effort, coming up with new ways of manipulating pandas dataframes is sorely needed. This project along with sketch[1] takes a conversational approach. I have been building my own open source tool for wrangling pandas

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