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mydpy

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About mydpy

Researching applications of finance, mathematics and computer science and designing algorithms for financial software. Specialized in computational operations research, large scale data analytics that utilizes high performance computing techniques, and simulation.

Ex-NASA scientist. Triathlete. Gamer.

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    Is anyone using Oxen.ai? This is the first use of it I've seen.

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    Comment #39181988

    These stack diagrams are always such bullshit.

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    Comment #37477758

    The technological and societal progress in less than 200 years is astounding.

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    Comment #35542501

    Benchmarks here: https://huggingface.co/databricks/dolly-v2-12b#benchmark-met...

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    Comment #35542479

    Right, but this is still impressive given how quickly Databricks created and open-sourced the dataset. I would expect more improvements in the future.

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    Comment #35292621

    What a great time to be in this field. It’s advancing so quickly!

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    Comment #27760945

    The article doesn’t emphasize the impact made by new technologies invented in pursuit of this prize. For example, this contest was a motivating factor for the creators of Apache Sp…

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    Comment #22586925

    If anything, I think tech is protected from the effects of the coming recession. Our industry is one of the best poised to maintain business as usual. That said, the impact of the …

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    Comment #19921728

    Does anyone have statistics on the impact of robocallers? They're ubiquitous and universally obnoxious. I haven't seen any reporting on their effectiveness for the services they're…

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    Comment #18989968

    For the uninitiated / confused, this refers to yarnpkg, the JavaScript dependency manager, not (Hadoop) YARN, the cluster manager.

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    Comment #16672039

    Exactly. This isn’t a benchmark at all.

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    Comment #16484748

    This is going to kill snagajob.com

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    Comment #16099019

    Legal question: Most employment agreements require employees sign an arbitration clause. Even though these have mixed enforceability, they are very intimidating (which I believe is…

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    Comment #14265243

    "We're going to call it 'extreme vetting'."

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    Comment #14167646

    Agreed. Personally I think asking for general blog recommendations is not helpful. I just google topics I'm interested and start to create that list myself. Also - I think the idea…

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    Comment #14108659

    I mean, it's CIO mag, so it's written for the audience. This is the first announcement I've seen for this topic, so maybe they'll follow-up with some engineering blog posts in the …

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    Comment #14010737

    This isn't unique. From Snap, which had a net operating loss in 2016 of $515 million, compared with a net loss of $373 million a year earlier: "We have incurred operating losses in…

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    Comment #13877846

    I agree with general sentiment expressed by others; a reasonable next opportunity shouldn't judge you because you worked for an unpopular company. In fact, we're thinking the oppos…

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    Comment #13766171

    Which AWS services do you use?

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    Comment #13700205

    The other way to respond: thanks, I'm interested. Alternatively: no thanks, I'm not interested. Recruiters aren't monkeys or slaves. This post is arrogant and rude.

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    Comment #13633297

    Sorry, I was criticizing the referenced article not your title on HN.

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    Comment #13630411

    He's not alone. The article talks about the importance of his collaborator Slee. Weird, click-baitey article title.