sysreader2016

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   by sysreader2016 10y ago

   Things like "insults, and a legal demand letter" are very concerning because they're threatening you. Those things aren't normal responses. You should consider hammering that nail in civil court because they're dama
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   by sysreader2016 10y ago

   Clients pay consultants to make use of what the client has to deliver the solutions the client wants. Give them what they're paying you for or get the f* out.
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   by sysreader2016 10y ago

   Consultants are not employees. Consultants are allowed to take off days anytime. They're allowed to start work at anytime and end work at anytime.
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   by sysreader2016 10y ago

   Legally speaking a consultant only must be paid 1 hour per pay period to bound to their contractual agreements.
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   by sysreader2016 10y ago

   Consultants are not employees. Consultants are allowed to take off days anytime. They're allowed to start work at anytime and end work at anytime.
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   by sysreader2016 10y ago

   @tptacek Thanks for the helpful advice. It seems like a lot of new consultants don't understand the differences between working as a 1099 contractor vs. W2 contractor vs. regular employee. I've met plenty of people who mistake a W
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   by sysreader2016 10y ago

   I'm working toward moving my deep learning project DeepSentry into e-commerce. DeepSentry was developed in Python3 and C. After any significant amount of time 60+ days the dataset per host is TB-PB. So, I've been digging into impl
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   by sysreader2016 10y ago

   Which projects you know use "disk, S3, github,..." to share their datasets? I'm curious what you think because I haven't read about any ML projects actually using hosted ML solutions like Amazon ML+S3. I've only see
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   by sysreader2016 10y ago

   An SMS payment system doesn't seem possible. Just end-to-end encryption for SMS will be much be bigger than a Facebook app. Without encryption consumers will be conducting wire transfers over cleartext to the merchant.
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    by sysreader2016 10y ago

    I'm just saying that I think a lot of young people in the tech industry don't care about work-life balance. And those same young people wouldn't have a problem working 12 hours a day to complete a project. Secondly, highly ta
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    by sysreader2016 10y ago

    I think that the younger workers in their 20's to 30's, especially the new tech workers, are really doing it because it's fun. So, working 12 hours a day 6-7 days a week isn't a big deal. Whereas the older crowd, the 40+
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    by sysreader2016 10y ago

    I haven't read much about XGBoost boosted trees. Does each tree have additive independence? Is the tree ensemble of two trees better than one tree? It seems like additive training that removes all constants in addition to regularizatio
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    by sysreader2016 11y ago

    Location: Colorado Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C, C++, Golang, Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, Python, Ruby, SQL, Bash, Perl, Agile, Cleanroom, Extreme, Lean, Scrum, Linux, PCI DSS, OWASP, Ansible, Puppet, OpenStack, AWS, VM