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addcninblue

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About addcninblue

Working at a market making firm.

Graduated from UC Berkeley studying Computer Science, Statistics, and Applied Mathematics. Interested in the broad areas of probability, distributed systems, and financial markets.

Looking to meet interesting people! Let's grab lunch.

Contact

  https://addcnin.blue/
  addcninblue@berkeley.edu
  Chicago, US

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    Following this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35902820 Synthstrom has now released their firmware!

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    Comment #33043389

    You'll need to configure clangd or ccls correctly with neovim's lsp, which in turn requires your build chain to be clean. It's definitely a huge time sink. Feel free to email me if…

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    Comment #32906442

    Please also loop me in for a Chicago event!

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    Comment #31953596

    You're saying that the value of your money in real terms is depreciating. OP is saying the nominal value persists. With banking, people care about nominal value.

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    Comment #31939732

    The lag thing is due to this: If you type `j` in insert mode, it waits to see if there's a possible `k` following. That's the lag. There's a setting for how long it waits.

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    Comment #31857742

    Also, you can add a Goggle-enabled Brave as a search engine in Chrome by using the following url: https://search.brave.com/goggles?q=%s+&source=web&goggles_id=https%253A%252F%252Fr…

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    My background is in teaching CS1 courses in undergrad (as a TA). There have been various studies that agree with you: teaching recursion before iteration seems to have benefits! Fr…

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    Comment #31649459

    You can consider the tower rule for intuition on why this can be true: E[X] = E[E[X|Y]] Essentially, what's happening is that, in E[X|Y], we first "hold" the randomness of Y, then …

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    Comment #30872270

    This is the first I've heard of the "Deep Diver" role. How common is this at companies of varying sizes?

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    Comment #30868466

    I think both are referencing the phrase "idle words," meaning "empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk" (from Google).

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    Comment #30858372

    Is it the expected outcome? I was under the initial impression that the author also noted: > Overall, this may have been a bit of a disappointment to those who expected to use Gene…

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    Comment #30141954

    I've considered building something like this as well! I think something cool would be to integrate "predictions" or modeling with this. For example, for people with consistent sala…

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    Comment #30103001

    Genuinely curious: How does real analysis apply to robotics?

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    Comment #30096371

    Hah did you go to Berkeley? We're still using Pintos here.

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    Comment #30028849

    Out of my element here, but would be curious to see if this is something solvable in firmware (now open-sourced!) or if it's a hardware problem to begin with (power states? etc). E…