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Weird timing, I just stumbled upon this Brian Beckman video recently https://youtu.be/ZhuHCtR3xq8?si=ifeR6wddsPRdOw1N

It’s possible (even true in my opinion) that garbage collected functional languages and low level languages like Zig are both great, and serve different purposes. I actually ship s…

This. It's valuable b/c if you have many thousands of python devs using astral tooling all day, and it tightly integrates with subscription based openai products...likelihood of op…

I am pretty far to one end of the spectrum on need for comments. Very rarely is a comment useful to help you/another developer decipher the intent and function of a piece of code.

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Easily 99% of comments generated by LLMs are useless.

There are mountains of data that show it actually has long term benefits beyond weight loss (beyond even the obvious health markers that improve due to losing weight). I wouldn’t b…

Anyone that’s worth anything at all in this field is “self taught”, some of them just went to school first.

I am a strategist at a smallish boutique quant investment firm. This is how we think about hiring a junior person. It's not all that different for a more senior person, but actual …

When we hire a junior person we are interested in math background, ability to communicate real world value of various models to our investment process and familiarity with computer…

I work in quantitative finance and have wanted to to start using OCaml at work for years. I just find that unless you are at a shop like Jane Street with a well developed proprieta…

If you were to buy a property today in any major market, the average unlevered cap rate on leasing residential property is nowhere near 20%. In many cases it’s not even profitable …

This is only part of what drives inflation. Yes, increase in money supply creates upward pressure on inflation. Higher interest rates reduce borrowing, which decreases demand for g…

This is exactly my point. Let subject matter experts in their respective disciplines handle what they know and communicate through the lingua franca of R. Most data scientists/stat…

Unfortunately it seemed pretty clear from the start that this is what data science would turn into. Data science effectively rebranded statistics but removed the requirement of dee…

No, I comment on posts about pc fan grills at 6am...I'm single :)

hmm, I always assumed there was some other benefit. I'm taking all mine off. Seems pretty easy to not ram my finger in it.

The point of a grill is to block dust and debris, which presumably I want. Otherwise I would just not use one and my fans would be the quietest and cool most effectively. What is t…

I really love Scala for all of these reasons, it also has the benefit of being used frequently in industry (big data, etc).