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by roystonvassey 5y ago
data science. Or, what's essentially a catch-all term these days for everything from sql queries to Artificial intelligence. The tools, applications have of course tremendously evolved but at its core, if you develop a good eye for wor
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by roystonvassey 5y ago
This is a perfect encapsulation of my career as a data-guy square peg in a round hole, filled with jargon and misplaced understanding of data in general. Despite all that you read and hear about data science advancing, you’ll be surprised t
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by roystonvassey 5y ago
Wow, my first “real world” programming language. Heavily used in critical systems software. Our company worked on aircraft controls and Ada was pretty much the only one “approved” by the regulators as I understood it back then. Anyone worki
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by roystonvassey 5y ago
I think he’s a natural teacher - someone who loves sharing what he’s learnt with others - and it pleases to me know such people exist. Everything I learned about deep neural networks, enough to apply it in a live product, was essentially al
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by roystonvassey 5y ago
I think it’s a problem when it turns to - being skeptical for the sake of it. Not been too long on HN but the top comments on most threads are a contrarian one (and one which I truly appreciate because it provides a different POv) but sadly
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by roystonvassey 5y ago
Locking up kids and controlling them surely can be bettered?
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by roystonvassey 5y ago
Plus traditional OEMs are locked in waterproof contracts with dealers that pretty much prohibits any integration/optimisation of systems, changes of sales processes etc. With most OEMs now going the direct sales way, there are lot mo
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by roystonvassey 5y ago
Sublime Text is my first tool to install on any new notebook. As someone who spends more time in meetings than in writing code, I almost purely use it as a note taking app and nothing’s come closer with just how easy it is to fire up a new
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by roystonvassey 5y ago
What a sweetly nostalgic trip back in time through these comments. Misha, Irodov and many other Russian children books are such a treasured time from my childhood. If anyone has any scanned copies of Misha, I’d be very grateful if you can s
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by roystonvassey 6y ago
Interesting. Any studies that validate the first point? I recall research talking about how there’s little muscle wastage until day 21 in normal healthy adults. Keen to know if we have learned more in this space
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by roystonvassey 6y ago
Yes. Like the GP mentioned, fasting is a ritualistic practiced in many cultures. In India, for example, there are fasting days in a month and many have certain days of the week even where they fast.
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by roystonvassey 6y ago
This is spot on. For a while, in my career, it felt like I was pursuing multiple career paths and in fact, there were many times I wondered if those were wasted years. Turns out, that being a fairly good jack of a few trades does pay off. A
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by roystonvassey 6y ago
Ok, right, my mistake. My point was about improving diversity through equal opportunities. Not sure how that applies to what I said. It is a different issue altogether no?
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by roystonvassey 6y ago
> I'm sure there are plenty of people who want to be equal to professionals who work 70 hour weeks when pay day comes around, but they don't want to be equal when it's time to work. Are you saying that the likelihood of sl
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by roystonvassey 6y ago
Sure but it’s not like there cannot be both more female truck drivers AND tech leaders. As tech is one of the wealthiest and critical industries in our society currently, it is natural the spotlight is fixed here. That said, the focus shoul
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by roystonvassey 6y ago
Plus, the massive number of the elderly working in difficult or dangerous jobs like taxi drivers, janitors, cleaners at food courts. Very strange and somehow felt like an unkind system for people who are not “productive”
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by roystonvassey 6y ago
I was invested heavily in Instagram as my active social media fix for two years. This was spurred by a comment on HN and similar to what is mentioned here - it was deemed to be a fun, positive and happy virtual party. And it was. For a whil
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by roystonvassey 6y ago
Off-topic, would you have any recommendations for introductory reading on these topics? I’d be very interested to learn more
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by roystonvassey 6y ago
Relevant point but given that the US is much more diverse, an integration course might not be relevant but such an immersion course might help non-English/non-western candidates feel at home faster.
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by roystonvassey 6y ago
Amidst this debate, I think it’s worth looking at the EU Blue Card scheme [1]. A few key differences versus the H1B (correct me if I’m wrong - my understanding of H1B features are basis discussions I have seen here): 1. Not tied to a specif
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by roystonvassey 6y ago
Additionally, for larger eneterprises, the operational overhead quickly grows and slows down new app development, if one is tied to a traditional server approach. Within our teams, we’ve found we can do with an (even) higher level of abstra
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by roystonvassey 6y ago
Interesting. I always suspected this to be true but not the extent, especially the overall profits generated by food delivery cos. For e.g. one of India’s largest delivery co reported a loss that was double the revenue! [1] The other way to
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by roystonvassey 6y ago
On similar lines, the anecdote at the beginning of this speech - https://www.princeton.edu/news/2010/05/30/2010-baccalaureate... -changed my life too. Since then I’ve been trying to follow - it’s harde
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by roystonvassey 7y ago
> That's not fun, that's boring. The fun part is looking at the data and gleaming all these potential patterns from it, seeing what potential is there and what could be Exactly! This is the reason why I love my job. It gets eve
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by roystonvassey 7y ago
I have been in the data Analytics space for 15+ years. The one mantra I try to always focus is what’s the business impact of what our team is creating. This is a simple yet very powerful rule that helps us quickly disband ideas that: 1. Do
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by roystonvassey 7y ago
In our group we use git for code repos and cloud for storage and actual compute. It works seamlessly and git APIs work fantastically with almost any service, IDE or whatever your tool of choice. I suspect with the increasing cloud adaption,
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by roystonvassey 7y ago
Thanks! Yes, I can imagine that that hypothesis would hold true and probably contributed to a higher fat loss. But, like I mentioned, I was keen to isolate <i>only</i> the fasting effect, without controlling for the diet.
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by roystonvassey 7y ago
https://telegra.ph/My-experiment-with-IF-03-09 A good time and place to plug results of the IF experiment I did a few years back. FWIW, I have been on a no-breakfast, no-lunch protocol, on weekdays since then and I absolute
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by roystonvassey 7y ago
I worked with GCP on a small (<6 weeks) project last year and the experience left me with a bad taste. Their reps were fairly condescending, questioned my requests regularly, over-engineered what was a fairly straight-forward ask (twice

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