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I just got to see a different species of kleptoplastic sea slugs in the wild last month, on a kayak tour of the mangroves around Key West. Our guide scooped some lettuce sea slugs …

Meh. My 16 year old writes shaders for her own games, writes for her VR headset, programs her graphing calculator, etc etc. The next generation will have plenty of self-taught SWEs…

I’ve been trialing a bunch of these models at work. They basically learn where the DNA has important functions, and what those functions are. Its very approximate, but up to now th…

Do you have compression enabled? At least from Pandas, Parquet defaults to compressed and Arrow/Feather default to uncompressed. When I enable zstd compression, I get similar file …

Not an expert, but I believe many papers on other video games make a single decision for the next X frames at once, possibly including a delay factor that governs exactly when to a…

If you’re doing it for fun, one option is to start with a simplified version of the game. It’s faster to implement and faster to run. And you’ll get insights you can apply to the f…

If the hours you spend implementing and maintaining your DevOps exceed the hours of downtime you prevent, you're probably not making good use of your time. The less you build, the …

This seems like a “problem” that shouldn’t be solved. If the thing keeping you from algorithmic trading is difficulty in deploying, you probably have no business doing it. Cynicall…

Agriculture PhD plus even modest data science skills is hugely in demand at the giant ag-biotech company where I work. Many of the data engineers I lead are former science PhDs. Li…

I've written a lot about this as a resource for my colleagues at work, perhaps you would find it useful as well. There's a list of recommended books embedded in there, but a lot of…

There's no perfect answer here, because different people will have different reactions to whatever approach you take. So what follows is just an opinion. I work at a large biotech …

BTW, I just stumbled across the AWS Chime SDK: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/business-productivity/customers... Sounds similar to what Twilio offers, but at about 1/6th the price --…

Hadn't planned on the random feature, but totally open to pull requests!

My Python code is up on Github under a BSD license, if you want to play with it. https://github.com/iwd32900/happyhour

I didn't realize Twilio did video -- I'll have to take a look!

Thanks for building this! Curious to know why you went with random mixing, rather than self-sorting. I expect the timed random mixing would feel sort of heavy-handed, though I have…

Interesting! I built something really similar last month, though less polished: https://happyhour.ianwdavis.com/ In my case, I let people create groups ("tables") on the fly and ho…