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I'm pretty sure most of us DS know about significant digits and are usually calculating the maximum to enable future flexibility. For a single output, I can understand how you'd be…

In fraud analysis, we look for these red flags! Fraudsters come to the office earlier and stay later than others. They take on as much as possible to expand their access and take n…

In fraud analysis, we look for too much access (what we call improper segregation of duties). This is pretty common at smaller organizations, so it can help to look for additional …

For many years my partner and I operated in the same way. I paid our rent, utilities and food while she spent on her hobbies and saved. I was not unhappy during this time because I…

That is very interesting to hear! I imagined that this was the perfect storm for HFT. Lots of retail investors using default exchange routing settings via brokers like Robinhood an…

The tragedy of the commons is a great launching point for understanding this problem. Managing fish populations is one of the best examples. For further reading, I suggest folks ch…

my first fugue https://soundcloud.com/peter-mullen-2/babys-first-fugue

For a researcher, this difference can lead to deep unhappiness. I moved from a research-heavy institution to a founder-heavy culture thinking the freedom and increased salary would…

Seconding this. fast.ai has greatly emphasized practical approaches for those interested in building deep learning applications. While I haven't completed their Deep Learning from …

Do whatever it takes to get you in the working mood. All tips aim to solve this abstract problem. I used to move all the furniture in our NYC apartment and set up all my monitors, …

There are layers of each problem space that benefit from optimization and good design more than others, however, most solutions still need all the other layers to be useful. I've h…

Some other ways Brokers make money: Market Making operations that leverage the same infrastructure and market position, Interest on Margin, Stock Loan/Borrow activity with other Br…

We keep it very simple as well. Postgres read-replica for cheap realtime stuff, Redshift for the larger sets, Airflow to manage transfers, and Metabase to visualize and share. We a…

I experienced lots of bullying. It messed me up real good emotionally. It also greatly informed my worldview (for better or for worse). So the details about the bullying: public no…