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Interesting.. What do you think about Survey Propagation?
I'm afraid I was not familiar, although I'm looking at a few related papers on the arxiv now. What brought that approach to mind?
Here's a good review paper that captures it.
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~sabhar/publications/surveyPropUAI...
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I'm afraid I was not familiar, although I'm looking at a few related papers on the arxiv now. What brought that approach to mind?
Survey Propagation is one of the best algorithms for solving very hard SAT instances. Here's a good review paper that captures it. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~sabhar/publications/surveyPropUAI...
Got laid off in 2017 and never got a real job again. (I have a UX background) 1. I immediately went to Spain to do the Camino de Santiago. Was learning building web apps (Meteor) and launchd a full landing page / swing dance registration site while on the Camino. 2. Learned React and a few other tools after that, tried to be a consultant for a year. Then tried to launch a bunch of projects ("startups" if you wanted t…
I haven't been laid off, but due to the economy I've been trying to come up with something I can do to become self-reliant. I've built a forum platform, and I've been buying up ___forum.com domains and pointing them at it. So far it has been costing me lots of money, and no users are showing up, but it's my vision and I'm not going to give up so easily.
I have not been laid off, but, as a contractor, I am well-aware that, at any point, I could have no income. I like golf and I've noticed there aren't many good sites on the internet, so I'm trying to build a golf portal. So far, I've implemented a very basic golf odds aggregation service -- https://www.golfodds.io/ if anyone wants to check it out. I plan to work on it in my spare time and build it up. Also open to an…
I love simple bootstrap sites. If you want to monetize it make all of the sportsbook names into affiliate links. Some books are offering really good terms (20-30% revshare + fixed amount per signup). See https://www.bestfightodds.com/ if you want a site that does this for MMA rather nicely - they were acquired by a subsidiary of Catena Media last year, they have an extensive portfolio of sites like this. If you event…
Thanks! I picked the simplest thing that I know that could work.
That's really great insight, actually. I definitely thought about adding the affiliate links, however I am somewhat unsure about the legality of promoting sportsbooks within the US. I think there are certain licensing requirements. I may look into it in more detail in the future, if the site picks up in traffic and search rankings.
> See https://www.bestfightodds.com/ if you want a site that does this for MMA rather nicely
This is super on-point. BFO was my inspiration for doing this and I know Catena and other affiliates typically have an interest in successful sports sites, so that thought, as a potential eventual exit strategy, crossed my mind.
> If you eventually add historical data people will scrape your site and try to clone it so that may be a problem.
I do have historical data in the backend, but I haven't done anything with it yet. Great point about the scrapers. I don't have a solution for that yet, although I am aware CloudFlare offers certain tools.
Player pages are a great idea, although I need to think what data will be useful and, preferably, won't require a lot of manual upkeep.
Constantly battling with issues of self worth and suicidal thoughts since I've got laid off so that's about it. Being a migrant, who is laid off, who is/was a sole bread winner does the trick I guess.
I've been working on a web framework in Ruby. It's inspired by all the JS frameworks, but uses Haml instead of JSX and all code is executed on the server, and patches are streamed to the browser. I'm about to run out of money so I'm planning to move to the Amazon rainforest where money will last longer...
Sounds like Rails in 2008. Long live server side rendering. You can tell I haven’t done a lot of web dev since 2014 or so. :)
It's quite different from Rails. There are no models, no views, no controllers. There are components and there is a directory called app/pages where all components named page.haml will get their own route (kinda like the path based routing in Next.js).
Ruby+Haml removes a lot of unnecessary syntax so components become much shorter than their JS equivalents. It feels really nice to use actually.
Since the server knows which components are in use on a page, it will only include CSS for those components, which makes loading pretty fast. Then whenever a user clicks on a link they will receive the styles for the components that appear there.
There is no need to write JavaScript, nor is it possible. It would be interesting to support custom elements (web components) but I haven't found a use case yet. I suppose it will come up some day, for things that need to be aware of browser state like scroll position in very long lists.
It's really easy to make interactive components, just like React. I'm running the website on Fly.io and I barely notice the latency (I got about 60-120ms and my nearest edge node is in a different continent).
I feel like I'm up to something good, though I'm gonna need to attract some users and contributors to make it usable. There are a few bugs and lots of improvements to be made... But it works!
The grind and the firefighting is forever and endless, and the new services you have to learn, the dev and product demands that are poorly planned, make one want to quit, and consult on specific projects. CI CD pipelines, and general purpose SRE project consulting.
I'm thinking about quitting in a high cost of living place and living off of savings will I search for gigs and build a network.
Is that absurd?
Absurd, most definitely. I got divorced about a year and a half ago. I’m 32 - for what it’s worth. In June, I left my job and SF. Put all my stuff in storage and went to the east coast for a month then went to Europe for 3 months. After all that, I committed to getting a six month lease on an apartment in Manhattan. Been here since November. I haven’t worked at all. Maybe done a total of 20 leetcode problems but I sp…