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jmportilla

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About jmportilla

Jose Marcial Portilla https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmportilla

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    Show HN: Free Course on New Gemini Python API

    I made a free course on the new Gemini Python API from Google, for the time being they allow up to 60 queries per minute on the free tier, so I figured it would be a good time to l…

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    Comment #38442936

    Are these American-made? Looks like they are just rebranded Hubsan drones from China: https://www.hubsan.com/na/ The original website even says they are made in Hong Kong: https://…

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    Comment #30645730

    Who is your 3rd party data provider for the stock fundamental data?

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    Comment #28241803

    No one here talking about the freaking humanoid bot?!? Also interesting to see how focused they are still on pure vision input to construct the vector space instead of just using L…

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    Comment #28133949

    Very cool, will be interesting to see if this is ever added in to VisualStudio as some sort of "super" auto-complete.

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    Comment #23576199

    Incredible work!

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    Comment #20866330

    in case you haven't already, his autobiography "Man for all markets" is great.

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    Comment #17197254

    they actually tried a "normal" pricing model for a summer, but purchases dropped. very similar to the JC Penney price change. psychologically people like things on sale

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    Comment #13564611

    I teach online courses and have had students report back to me that the course helped them get a job or pass an interview, but it's pretty much always in addition to their own self…

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    Comment #13564578

    I'm a heavy rstudio and Python user and have been wondering how the new MBP would perform with those apps rather than just video, thanks for posting

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    Comment #13433985

    yeah, that's a great way to quickly show the set up and OS requirements

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    Comment #13207029

    I teach an online course: https://www.udemy.com/python-for-data-science-and-machine-le... on these topics

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    Comment #12776791

    Shameless self promotion: https://www.udemy.com/python-for-data-science-and-machine-le...

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    Comment #12375179

    Udemy does do copyright reviews for approval to the marketplace but I think they are just contractors though, so I can definitely see how courses could slip by, with someone being …

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    Comment #12375158

    Yes, in fact they took down the course in question the next day after it was reported: https://blog.udemy.com/maintaining-the-integrity-of-our-udem...

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    Comment #12375152

    Udemy basically has a similar piracy to YouTube. If someone reports the content as copyright, Udemy looks into it and takes it down. They also now actively check for copyright infr…

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    Comment #12151223

    probably all 3

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    Comment #12060871

    Yeah, you guys being profitable made me very happy. It's good to know that not all companies are just crazy burn for growth machines. Congrats!

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    Comment #10133662

    Thanks! I'll fix it

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    Comment #10133660

    I think your thinking of just a classic collaborative filtering recommendation system.A simple w2v system would take into account all words, then have to be filtered by words that …

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    Comment #10133657

    I used the gensim Doc2Vec implementation. You can check out some of the source code here: https://github.com/jmportilla/Reddit2Vec

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    Comment #10133648

    Yeah, I know its super annoying. Hopefully I'll have time to update the model with lowercase names sometime next week.

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