thegginthesky

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by thegginthesky 2y ago
This is not the point. The point is you misquoted the article without understanding the full context, and was corrected. The parents weren't judgmental of an online life, they were just unaware. Matter of fact, on the documentary from
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by thegginthesky 2y ago
I'm a similar position as you in terms of job, salary and balance. But this is my 5th job out of college and the longest I've been in a single job. When I hit my 4year mark, I started to think that the grass is greener on the othe
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by thegginthesky 2y ago
No problem! I have most of the code in very small functions that I'd be willing to contribute. At my company we have very time sensitive AB tests that we have to run with very few data points (at most 20 conversions per week, after 100
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by thegginthesky 2y ago
Great package! I'll test it out on my free time. I'm wondering if you'd like to accept a contribution for Bayesian AB Testing, based on this whitepaper[0] and developed in Numpy. If so, we can chat at my email gbenatt92 at zo
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by thegginthesky 2y ago
I stand corrected! It was my impression that many methods used in ML such as Support Vector Machines, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Boosting, Bagging and so on have very deep roots in Frequentist Methods, although current CS implementatio
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by thegginthesky 2y ago
Most models are derived of Machine Learning principles that are a mix of classic probability theory, Frequentist and Bayesian statistics and lots of Computer Science fundamentals. But there have been advancements in Bayesian Inference and B
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by thegginthesky 2y ago
Frequentist and Bayesian are correct if both have scientific rigor in their research and methodology. Both can be wrong if the research is whack or sloppy.
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by thegginthesky 2y ago
It's because practicioners of one says that the other camp is wrong and question each other's methodologies. And in academia, questioning one's methodology is akin to saying one is dumb. To understand both camps I summarize l
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by thegginthesky 2y ago
I miss the college days where professors would argue endlessly on Bayesian vs Frequentist. The article is very well succinct and even explains why even my Bayesian professors had different approaches to research and analysis. I never knew a
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by thegginthesky 2y ago
Hey Peter, I'm a foreigner residing abroad with an american spouse of 10 years and we have kids holding American Passports. I'm currently working as a contractor for a company in the US, but I'm thinking of moving to the US a
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by thegginthesky 3y ago
That is a much lesser punishment than what the US is doing in this thread. A fine that is a small but non-insignficant percentage of annual revenue is a measured response when you want to punish bad behavior but allow businesses to still op
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by thegginthesky 3y ago
I know someone who works on this in Meta. His resume is computer science heavy, with a masters in Machine Learning. On the previous experience side, before getting into Meta, he had about a decade working as a Software Engineer with Machine
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by thegginthesky 3y ago
I won't be defending Nintendo because their issue with joy-stick drifting, their unwillingness to fix their design flaw, and their constant efforts to stop video game preservation really pisses me off. But emulators are hit or miss, sp
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by thegginthesky 3y ago
Freight broker that wanted to use technology to automate the work of finding trucks, managing the communication between truck, shipper and facilities, and auditing the job of moving the load. But the job is very high revenue (thousands of d
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by thegginthesky 3y ago
Like the sibling comment has said. But what we saw during the peak was crazy, and some investors and execs thought it would last. At least in regards to what pertains FTL freight, we saw a drop of tougjly 50% in volumes as consumer spending
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by thegginthesky 3y ago
I work for one of their competitors and I can empathize with them. My thoughts goes to all the employees and their families. The Freight business is collapsing after an unrealistic high during the pandemic. Since April 2022, revenue per loa
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by thegginthesky 3y ago
Process, git and S3. We trained the whole team to: - version the analysis/code with git - save the data to the bucket s3://<project_name>/<commit_id> - we wrote a small code to get the commit id to build this
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by thegginthesky 3y ago
The point isn't paying to publish apps, the point is that you can't hack into it if this is anything like iOS. If this runs a version of iOS, we can't access the code that is running in it, we can't open a terminal, we c
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Inflation and the Profit-Price Spiral(npr.org)
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by thegginthesky 3y ago
Not my first on site either, but normally I'd just need to go through a phone screen and a tech test to secure an onsite, not many hours of interviewing. Plus, I just listened to what the recruiter told me through the phone and confirm
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by thegginthesky 3y ago
I'll tell you a personal anecdote about Shopify and why I dislike the company. Back in 2019, I was contacted by Shopify for a job opportunity. After acing multiple remote interviews, their recruiter couldn't contain their exciteme
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by thegginthesky 3y ago
I'd love to be able to ask questions about technical documentation, code bases, contract PDFs and so on, without having to worry to send my data unprotected to another company that doesn't have a Enterprise contract or can assure
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by thegginthesky 3y ago
No joke at all. I personally know people that rode this last hiring bubble very stellar and got from analyst to manager in just 2 years, while raising their salary over 300% upwards because of strategic company hopping. Some of them did get
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by thegginthesky 3y ago
I have yet to see a country where licensing equates to high quality in all the services. The examples I've used might not work in some places, but people find flaws in licensing systems all the time. Sometimes licensing is so strict th
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by thegginthesky 3y ago
Renting might be stable but it's very dependant on whoever owns the house and what type of regulations and protections your government has in place. Owning a home (house/apartment/land/etc) gives you more rights over whe
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by thegginthesky 3y ago
Truth to be told, Engineering license requirements have a bigger effect in gate keeping the profession and keep supply restricted, much like any other regulated profession. Gate keeping has some benefits, but is easily circumvented by bad a
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by thegginthesky 4y ago
The real problem is that Google holds an effective monopoly in search, so any digital marketer worth a salt will optimize the crap out of their blogs and pages to get higher and higher rank within Google alone. This will, in turn, lead to w
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by thegginthesky 4y ago
I really like your heuristic, and I'll add to your list of examples where one could work - Any tech company where the Stats/ML model is one of THE products and differentiators. You'll need to cut through a lot of buzz word an
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by thegginthesky 4y ago
No, but a CEO can slash his own pay to reflect the current situation. For example, when the WiiU was a flop, Nintendo's CEO personally decided to take a paycut of about 50%[0] I believe this should be the standard for any CEO who wants
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by thegginthesky 4y ago
I love the Botanical Garden, it's my favorite place in Rio and truly underrated. The biodiversity is amazing, great spot for picnics with the kids, photos and so on. Plus it's super cheap and the staff is very welcoming. I highly

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