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Total Pipedream Brian has been pushing a bunch of different projects in Central Texas since the Boring Company moved here. None of them have actually gotten any real consideration.…

My favorite is "Now, that's not a stupid idea". I used to do that with a friend at my first job. We'd argue for hours until we found a good solution. The joke, of course, is that e…

I'm surprised nobody mentioned good old H. Ross Perot, the Texas billionaire who made Bill Clinton president in 1992. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot ) Perot peeled off …

I assume it was yours. Everything fits your description and I don't think anyone else is doing exactly the same thing. I don't think the system is broken. It's just not an easy pro…

I live in Austin TX and got one of the mailers last year. I was wondering how you pulled it off. The handwriting on the outside does make it look personal but, once you open it, it…

It might not work but.. I was suggesting that you try to do the reverse of what they are doing. Large US companies look to other parts of the world to reduce their labor costs. If …

Reading the comments, I noticed that my advice is very US-centric. The core still applies but you want to approach pricing differently. I would set your pricing around a proposed m…

I was in a similar position a decade ago. I took the money and it worked out for my ambitions (a nice living running a small company). It is up to you to decide which path to pursu…

Python has really extensive libraries. Here is the Nearest Neighbor one I've used in the past: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.ne... . ... Prior articles …

I would find an existing business that is hosting on the public cloud. Often, it is just a bunch of VMs that don't really leverage what the cloud has to offer -- they are just conv…

Hard to take the analysis seriously when it (a) take UNIX as an example and (b) pretends Linux doesn't exist. The Linux kernel looks to be a successful Bazaar project with a single…

It's friendly, laid back but there is plenty of startup activity. (Power situation is better than SF in general because nothing is burning around here.) Culturally, the vibe of SF …

Only take VC money if you want to create a large company and sell it in a 5-7 time frame. Or go out of business trying... The main reason you should raise seed money is because (a)…

I just implemented both a CSV parser and an address standardizer in numba (both CPU and GPU) running in parallel feed through a message queue with a bunch of workers subprocs. It t…

And... it is back (for us at least.)

This is great. I suspect that I have exactly the right use case for this. The two main issues with running SQL Server are (1) you have to license all the cores on a system and (2) …

I read both sides and it looks like The Intercept really doesn't have a leg to stand on. Greenwald offered to publish the story elsewhere (which he is explicitly allowed to by his …

Sounds a lot like Alan Moore's complaints about comics. But I think you assign problems to the game that are really problems of the audience. Who wants to be a random character in …

I wrote something like this but used a GPU to do all the heavy lifting. It was mostly just to learn how Numba's GPU support worked so I never benchmarked it. It was very fast. I th…

Military personnel are trained to be apolitical much more than you might realize from the outside. My information is from a cousin-in-law who just retired. If a few generals who si…

Take a look at Numba for JIT. The primary drawback of Numpy alone is that you pay the memory-to-cache latency for every operation. Numba compiles into C on the fly. It makes Python…

The dealership model comes from the abuses by the OEMs during the first part of the 1930s. They would sell you cars and then charge a ton for repairs and lock you in to only gettin…

Render consistency. I was doing automated image capture of some data sites and diffing them to see if they changed. Chrome would jitter. Firefox drew the same bits every time.

Weird -- it appears to be missing the last 10-20 years of development in random numbers by the data science and cryptography community. They have put a lot of work into it. If I re…

GPU servers and coloc are pretty cheap these days. $1K/m rent per 20A of power. ROI on hardware is usually 3-4 months max (ie - for the cost the machine at AWS for 3-4 months, you …