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inSenCite

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About inSenCite

I'm an engineer with a background in operations research and 10 years of engineering large scale operational change. www.rachitshankar.com

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    Comment #43547850

    Literally the best day of the year

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    Comment #43529023

    I'm building a perp funding arbitrage aggregator. Aggregates funding rates across a number of DEXs to help users track down the most lucrative opportunities. If there is uptake the…

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    Comment #43516212

    As a python/stats focused dev, I just want a web framework that simplifies the idea -> website process. I've been able to 'release' some simple tools into the public with plotly/dj…

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    Comment #43516157

    I wish I could 'acquire' my house at a higher valuation and renegotiate financing terms :(

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    Comment #43380689

    This seems a bit...naive? Get a haircut and headshot as week 1 goals? therapist? look in the mirror? upgrade audio/video? what...? This is just a bunch of things to spend money on …

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    Comment #43289974

    In my experience people can be both although they might prefer and/or excel at one. A good "cowboy" is one that gets the job done but can also build a sustainable, changeable proce…

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    Comment #43219714

    Its called fuck around and find out innit. Coding is easy, testing and maintaining is hard.

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    Comment #42962532

    Technically the whole concept of marketing is kinda insidious - the goal is to turn non-users into users. I still think a great use case for AR glasses is blotting out ads instead …

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    Comment #42932014

    I think it just boils down to that most of the time we are just plain wrong about what people want badly enough to change what they are doing already. Our other fallacy is that qua…

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    Comment #42921695

    Well, zero criticism IS a form of criticism so I don't blame the author for not being motivated after the fact. I'd even say its the worst kind of criticism because it leaves you w…

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    Comment #42750603

    "It will be released first in Canada..." Filing this under things we don't see very often (or at least since RIM went underwater).

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    Comment #42696207

    Man, Langar is always awesome. They are not shy on serving size and the food is almost always legit amazing. Dont' miss out on the halwa! One of the mind blowing things about this …

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    Comment #42667237

    Very familiar story. I'm 9months into quitting my consulting career after 10 years. Relatively long hours, weekend work, and lots of travel. The first few years were great, lots of…

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    Comment #42605522

    The best sales people I've worked with were incredible strategic thinkers and not really sales people at all. They built an intimate knowledge of their customer and their industry,…

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    Comment #42590018

    Canada needs to do something but I don't think joining the EU is it.

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    Comment #42563042

    This should be fun to watch

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    Comment #42559333

    "Before Deepseek, CEO Liang Wenfeng’s main venture was High-Flyer (幻方), a top 4 Chinese quantitative hedge fund last valued at $8 billion" Seems wild that a top 4 quant hedge fund …

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    Comment #42494630

    I sincerely hope nobody is taking advice from linkedIn posts. Software development or otherwise...

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    Comment #42387328

    I wish there were 4k/hd resolutions of these

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    Comment #42206032

    looks like...an automated blog? Suspect these are almost all completely fictional

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    Comment #42180000

    This is the cutest thing I've seen all day

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    Comment #42153961

    Using a combination of both chatgpt and claude/sonnet. Codebase is not very complex or cutting edge (e.g., data pipeline to maintain a local db, and an analytics system). These are…

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    Comment #42142037

    On one hand I agree with this conceptually, but on the other hand I've also been able to use AI to rapidly clean up and better structure a bunch of my existing code. The blind copy…

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    Comment #42068898

    I'd love to see a more granular view of the birthrate specifically urban vs. rural

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    Comment #42050868

    My biggest challenge with writing blogs/newsletters is the fear of publishing, not getting it "perfect", or being horribly wrong about whatever I'm writing about. To get over this …