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Discrete event simulation frameworks, like SimPy, are a great mathematical way to simulate the environment if wanting to discover better methods of any methodoical staging flow. El…

The leverage is the trick in the whole equation. During dotcom days the leverage was fine until the cash flow ran out. Then bankruptcies started and the bottom fell out. It appears…

I'm not a sysadmin but I often hear about server failures due to hardware just wearing out. Is there an expected shelf life of the hardware? I would expect for sure on the storage …

Shareholder primacy is a drain on so many levels. Think of all the R&D that could have been spent instead of buying back shares.

Your son should blog the experience. That could be an interesting read.

Financial risk management is a great industry for data science. I've been doing it for 15+ years. It is amazing the data rich environment which includes credit bureaus, customer tr…

It works for me. Cathedral is analogous to free software being a religion. It is a theocratic worldview that has a zealous following that must apply the rituals of old. Bazaar is t…

Adding the letter archive into a LLM prompt is a good read. you can use this as a source https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html

perhaps I'm missing something. Why not start the learning at a later state?

behind paywall. Amateur sleuth from West Virginia may have decoded the Z13 cipher and solved the mystery of the Zodiac killings identity.

Should change the name to Matrix Processing Units

The US Constitutional government is meant to be slow, methodical and gridlocked. It is supposed to take enormous compromise to get any decision created into law.

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy" -James Madison

Very close. In fact you could still say that it still is competing with Python for users. There is still an active community of developers.

While the 1 hour rule is mostly true be careful with discount airlines. Frontier Airlines does do a 1 hour boarding. I've heard of cases that if you are late to boarding, even if h…

That management philosophy is one of the reasons that the US lost its dominance in auto manufacturing and market share, in my opinion.

I agree. Group channels on relevant topics is very helpful. Especially on technical details relevant to getting work done. Yet here goes my rant. Nothing can replace a good in-pers…

"If SpaceX can do it, NASA can do it." Space Shuttle never achieved is core objective and project shelved. Space Launch System is way past deadlines and cost. As far as launching s…

That would be something. When a AI/LLM can create new axioms or laws that have not discovered by humanity.

I believe disruption can come in the form of underwriting and servicing loans. The old model of large call centers that do buying and servicing loans has been around forever. It sc…

Also it should be equated to a wilderness fort. A fortress it was not.

I've been using Linux for 15+ years. Here are my counterpoints. 1. Linux is a software ecosystem. Varying flavors and options to fill almost any need of computing solution. 2. Bugs…

Here is the NY Fed household data statistics on the subject. The NY Fed reports quarterly on US credit and debt. Aggregate delinquency rates going up. https://www.newyorkfed.org/mi…

This is really interesting. It's not unlike building a credit bureau model like a FICO score. Just trying to find a probability of likelihood outcome.