pantsforbirds

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   by pantsforbirds 5y ago

   I mean it automates a lot of the work i don't want to do. Being able to write a unit test just by describing it is fantastic.
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   by pantsforbirds 5y ago

   Arrow (& by extension parquet) are both amazing projects. I think the apache foundation has quite a few projects that are worth considering. Arrow, Airflow, Beam, Cassandra, Flink HBase, Hive, Kafka, Lucene, ORC, Pig, etc. Really their
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   by pantsforbirds 5y ago

   The only thing I really think is missing from python is good pattern matching (curious to try out the new implementation), and a pipe operator. Chaining functions is somewhat annoying in python if you want to do any sort of cross library wo
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   by pantsforbirds 5y ago

   i think thats the most powerful part of the tool. being able to effortlessly write lazy generators is absolutely amazing when working with any sort of I/O system or async code.
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   by pantsforbirds 5y ago

   How often is code submitted on stack overflow copied from github or other sources though?
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   by pantsforbirds 6y ago

   You don't have to replace the core python parts. We moved a decent amount of our data pre-processing into Scala, Golang, and Data Base queries and then just store the processed data for the python models to use to train/run (which
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   by pantsforbirds 6y ago

   I honestly would rather just read a SQL query. Almost every developer is familiar with SQL so you can immediately know what is happening vs if you are looking at a code base with an ORM you're not familiar with.
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   by pantsforbirds 6y ago

   The asyncpg library is honestly incredible. I wrote a backfill script that would: 1. dump the rows of a postgres table matching a query (usually a range on the index with a filter or two on other columns) 2. Do some very basic transformatio
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   by pantsforbirds 6y ago

   Was a little disappointed to see the root finding section didn't include Brent's Method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent%27s_method I think it's one of the more interesting algorithms in general.
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    by pantsforbirds 6y ago

    Except its obvious that posting news articles drives readership towards the links. You get very detailed statistics from Facebook on clickthrough rates and its not hard to see who clicks through that already has an account for your site (an
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    by pantsforbirds 6y ago

    Facebook showed in their release the monetary value of they provided the news companies. I can't see how you could possible argue they do not provide value to the classic media companies by allowing them to be linked and discussed free
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    by pantsforbirds 6y ago

    On a side note my ISP blocked Notion a few weeks ago and I could not figure out why it was "down". Apparently Cox didn't like that the .so domain is used for Somalia and they were getting Somalian email scams so they blocked
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    by pantsforbirds 6y ago

    You can write pretty interesting data pipelines using akka streams with a very similar idea to FBP. It's probably not technically FBP, but the whole reactive stream implementation is similar in thought but allows for things like dispar
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    by pantsforbirds 6y ago

    Luna is one of the coolest projects I've seen. I've really enjoyed watching the progress. Curious to see if it (or concepts from it) gets picked up for programming education one day.
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    by pantsforbirds 6y ago

    My opinion is that languages where you work with vector representations primarily (or at least often) like Fortran, Matlab, Julia are best with a 1 index. They are languages primarily used for math and simulations and are pretty specialized
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    by pantsforbirds 6y ago

    I think it was supposed to be a comparison to Typescript. Since TS is a strict superset of JS you can simply rename a file and refactor into TS as you go.
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    by pantsforbirds 6y ago

    I was wondering if it was developed to help promote TF more to finance firms.
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    by pantsforbirds 6y ago

    The ranking on this list was ... interesting. Truly didnt expect elixir to be #1
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    by pantsforbirds 6y ago

    "A (Slightly) Improved Approximation Algorithm for Metric TSP" is a pretty funny headline.
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    by pantsforbirds 6y ago

    As a counter argument it seems to me that if you are an expert in a field you can generally predict disasters and be wrong and people tend to not care so much, but if you predict a more positive outcome and you are wrong people will never f
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    by pantsforbirds 7y ago

    I honestly think if you are already a software engineer and you want to get into a ML company you should focus on building infrastructure for big ML products. It seems the infrastructure game is very new for realistic, production ready, mac
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    by pantsforbirds 7y ago

    I am constantly creeped out by how well Amazon markets things to me. There are two types of recommendations I get from Amazon though. The first is ads I see on sites like Facebook and are things I would never look up, but I'm also curi
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    by pantsforbirds 7y ago

    python 3.6 is when they reworked the dictionary and had the side effect of being ordered.
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    by pantsforbirds 7y ago

    My last job I spent 80+% of my time productionizing models and notebooks. It was an absolute nightmare. Everyone had slightly different preprocessing hacks for different stages and things were always working fine locally, but I couldn'