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WhiteOwlEd

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About WhiteOwlEd

I make online courses on how to build practical things with tech. Details of my work are at:

https://www.whiteowleducation.com

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    With OpenAI and other LLMs, web development is accelerating. For example, I put together a AI call center demo ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv7mI_qRrhE ) by using Open AI o1-p…

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    Comment #41721923

    Building on this, Human preference optimization (such as Direct Preference Optimization or Kahneman Tversky Optimization) could be used to help in refining models to create better …

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    Comment #39749221

    The author is actually doing something that will help with the job search, and that is reaching out by methods other than the resume. Having a blog on the front page (coupled with …

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    Comment #38981117

    If you are using no-code solutions, increasing an "idea" in a dataset will make that idea more likely to appear. If you are fine-tuning your own LLM, there are other ways to get yo…

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    Comment #37511687

    Data scientist here who spent a couple of years working with Unreal (to produce high end data visualizations). Here are my thoughts > Blueprints suck! Not really. Think of Blueprin…

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    Comment #34612818

    10 thoughts on data visualization best practices and tools: 1) For interactive visualizations of data on 3D globes, I use a mix of C++, Python (for data cleaning), and Unreal Engin…

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    Comment #34348544

    NLP machine learning can summarize text. ChatGPT can write code. It seems like deep down the author wants an AI tool that summarizes code as a diagram with different “styles” base …

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    Comment #33936198

    Building on this, for many companies, the leader of the IT org has the main responsibility of focusing on end (or outside) customer needs at the highest quality with a low "Total C…

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    Comment #33697532

    I just put together a tutorial for data analysts who want to learn BigQuery. The tutorial goes through the process that I use as a data scientist to examine data. For the tutorial,…

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    Comment #33524634

    There is an interesting irony to this in that SBF had contributed $38 million to PACs as part of this election cycle.

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    Ask HN: Cost effective platform for React / Gatsby?

    I feel like my site (https://whiteowleducation.com ) is starting to outgrow Netlify. The site has interactive web pages with Mapbox and video that is coming from Cloudflare, and I …

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    Comment #33288853

    OP Here. When I started out, this blog was going to be one paragraph and it turned into data journalism that has an interactive 3D globe which shows housing prices, and interactive…

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    Comment #32612300

    Working on it. As a first iteration, I am thinking video games meets data visualization. Details at https://www.whiteowleducation.com/courses/data-visualization... .

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    Comment #32462515

    The short answer is you want to learn a language that helps you achieve your short-term goals and that ideally positions you to achieve your long term goals. Focus more on the goal…

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    Comment #32342372

    It seems like it rate hikes would reduce demand, and I think policymakers believe a reduction in demand will force the price reductions. For example, in the US, recent interest rat…

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    Comment #32026769

    I wrote ad copy for an Unreal Engine based, data visualization course that is hosted online. Details at https://www.whiteowleducation.com/courses/data-visualization... .

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    Ask HN: What are you working on this weekend?

    Just curious what everyone is working on this weekend. For me, I am working with Unreal Engine this weekend. Unreal allows you to select Actors (the objects in the game), but if yo…

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    Ask HN: What projects are you working on this weekend?

    I am just curious what kinds of projects everyone is working on. Are you looking into online courses or building out something completely new? For me, I am migrating away from cont…

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    Comment #30906851

    I put together a markdown outline for new features to implement and new marketing ideas. I also put together an outline for my current project. Before starting a current project, I…

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    Comment #30665171

    When I am coding, I feel the need to "type it out." If I am writing blogs or if I'm writing scripts, I find that I can dictate much faster and then just edit the sentences afterwar…