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Original author here. I built this a few years ago, and the main motivation at the time was that I'd heard people say that adding the new features in Python3 required breaking back…

SentiLink | Software Engineer (backend, platform, infra, machine learning, data science) | ONSITE | San Francisco, CA | sentilink.com SentiLink prevents synthetic fraud, an emergin…

SentiLink | Software Engineer (backend, platform, infra, machine learning) | ONSITE | San Francisco, CA | sentilink.com SentiLink prevents synthetic fraud, an emerging fraud vector…

Two super interesting things about this kind of fraud which make it especially tricky to catch and deal with: 1. Unlike with ID theft, there's no consumer victim. With ID theft, ev…

SentiLink | Backend, Security, and Machine Learning Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE SentiLink is reinventing identity, beginning with financial services in the United States. Th…

It's pretty surprising students think they can get away with this. If there's any class you'd get caught in, it'd be a CS class. In the CS classes I took in undergrad and grad scho…

Do customers not want to try out the bike before buying? Especially for $5k+...?

You probably wouldn't expect them to. But the same kind of Stein phenomenon holds under a much broader set of conditions, including arbitrary covariance matrices and arbitrary quad…

A less popular but perhaps more influential phenomenon is Stein's Paradox [1]. Here's a provocative example often given to illustrate it: Say you have a baseball player, soccer pla…

One thing this article and the comments haven't discussed yet is how much the viability of local newspapers depends on the local real estate market. Take a look at your local newsp…

I'm surprised the article and comments haven't mentioned CreditKarma's tax solution yet, which is (actually) free. [1] Presumably their strategy is to take the users and data they …

Yes, Tauthon. ( https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon ). It lets people with Python 2 code start to use new features from Python 3. (It's a backwards-compatible fork of Python 2…

(I'm the primary author of this interpreter). > Backporting features will be hard It's actually pretty straightforward: I just find the relevant changes in the Python 3 history, an…