toddm

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by toddm 4y ago
Most of the replies to your query have addressed the big issue, which is that "data scientists" are almost universally mediocre (at best) coders. It's endemic to that job position and is guaranteed to be language-invariant. O
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by toddm 4y ago
From Hadley's video blurb, the ringer is when he states "things just work" in the R environment vis-à-vis python (where he tactfully yet implicitly acknowledges the shitshow that is the python library/package/enviro
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by toddm 4y ago
Welp, I guess it's time for me to move away from UNICOS...
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by toddm 4y ago
This could well be a handout from HR at several jobs I've had. Aside from the dark humor, it is a shame that we do not recognize rehabilitation in this country and focus on punishment.
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by toddm 4y ago
Big swing and a miss.
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by toddm 4y ago
Mid-range is hard to define, really. There are weaker electrostatic effects, and the pi-stacking and/or cation-pi effects are over longer ranges than h-bonds typically are. The whole molecule is the ligand: when you state you are &quot
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by toddm 4y ago
Computational chemist here, working at the moment on small molecule ligands in the context of drug discovery. The small molecule itself is the ligand. There is interaction of the ligand with the binding site amino acids via hydrogen bonds t
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by toddm 4y ago
Love R, it was great even 15 years ago as a start for writing an automated trading system (there were issues with memory limits and other factors that ultimately led me to switch to python). As luck would have it, I'm presently auditio
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by toddm 4y ago
No, if only because none of my employers have been using Julia - I don't tend to do a lot of coding outside of work these days so I kind of play the hand I'm dealt.
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by toddm 4y ago
I wrote https://github.com/toddjm/projects/blob/master/science/dqmc.... in 1999, and it compiles and runs just fine with gfortran on my Mac. So I'd say you're good for at least 23 years :)
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by toddm 4y ago
You're right, of course. As for bash scripting, I love it and use it as much as possible. My problem with python are largely with calisthenics regarding getting all the libraries and virtual environments to play nice, and I have a part
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by toddm 4y ago
Really great stuff, I would love never having to interact with python ever again and this is a nice to see.
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by toddm 4y ago
There's nothing wrong with being a generalist, although I'm certainly biased in that regard. I empathize with the stresses relating to short employment stints and unfinished projects; however, if you asked me if I'd rather be
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by toddm 4y ago
I buy Mission Impossible like once a year from Amazon. I think I've bought all of John Wick twice. I kind of read the fine print at some point and it turns out "buying" is just renting for some arbitrary time until Amazon dec
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by toddm 4y ago
You are obviously a wonderful father and Sam is lucky to have you. That's all I wanted to say.
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by toddm 4y ago
Going through this right now, not for the first time. I always wonder if they ever actually fill the position for which I was a candidate.
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by toddm 4y ago
I've been a fitness and gadget junkie for a long time. I was gifted a WHOOP 6-month subscription in December 2020, and I used it from then until the end of that 6-month term. This was the 3.0 platform. It was fine for the price - $0 -
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by toddm 4y ago
Ghostscript (well, gv) got me through the 1990s and beyond as part of my TeX -> dvips -> gv workflow. Kudos and thank you to those who maintain it and the associated packages!
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by toddm 4y ago
Not all heroes wear capes.
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by toddm 4y ago
Reminds me of one of my favorite meeting abstracts from David Mazieres and Eddie Kohler at Stanford: https://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf
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by toddm 4y ago
Went to the liquor store.
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by toddm 4y ago
I've long considered git to be a wrapper around cvs designed to make me feel stupid.
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by toddm 4y ago
My experience through 2 postdoctoral appointments was quite pleasant. The pay was low and I lived in high COL places, but I knew that going into it. In return, I met and worked with and for some brilliant people and was exposed to interesti
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by toddm 4y ago
Travis County - and all counties in Texas - makes their property tax rates, appraisals, and other germane information public by default. For Travis County, the information is at traviscad.org ("cad" = "County Appraisal Distri
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by toddm 4y ago
Just my opinion on the visual. I did my doctoral work in the area of quantum dynamics, and wavefunction collapse does have a well-known definition and context. While it might (now) apply to the generation of terrain imagery as well, it&#x27
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by toddm 4y ago
How is this related to making a measurement of a quantum system and the ensuing wavefunction collapse to one eigenstate? No offense, but it looks like a rendering of my lawn after the gophers got into it.
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by toddm 4y ago
Do I need to know about ML/statistics to interpret the results?
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by toddm 4y ago
It's paid time off from a financial entity (hedge fund, prop shop, etc.) where you are paid not to compete in their space. In my case, I had a year to sit-out as a HFT quant from 2010-2011. Note that it sounds great - you're getti
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by toddm 4y ago
Important to add that this occurred in August 2012 and not in 2019 as the title implies. I had interviewed there in my garden year (2010-2011) and was ultimately not considered for a role as a high-frequency quant.
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by toddm 4y ago
This. I use TrainingPeaks with Intervals as well as Strava - well, and Garmin Connect and Zwift and ... Intervals - as well as TP, TR, Zwift, Garmin Connect, and Strava, are pretty lightweight on the free side (let's face it, you get a

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