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gallamine

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I'm a data scientist with a background in electrical engineering. Robots, machine learning, algorithms, DSP, digital comms, etc. E: gallamine at gmail dot com
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gallamine··on My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone
Does being at-or-below the median family income for your location make you "rich by any reasonable measure?"
gallamine··on Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus on your job
First job or subsequent jobs?
gallamine··on Are neck gaiters worse than no mask at all?
Because of the confusion between a results and a methods paper: https://twitter.com/joelindsey/status/1293593320657162243?s=...
gallamine··on Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
I've taken to running all my amazon purchases through fakespot dot com first. It's highly discouraging.
gallamine··on Covid-19 contact tracing study finds children key to spread
Just a note to say that "extraordinary evidence" doesn't exist. It's just evidence. It's a circular notion, since if such a thing as "extraordinary evidence" were to exist, then proving it existed would require itself.
gallamine··on Ask HN: Teaching kids how to think?
A simple procedure that's worked ok so far has been to give answers then follow up with, "do you know why?" and get them to try and give a reason for my decision or judgement. I've noticed that eventually they're able to determine the reason for our parenting decisions. We also tend to give our children lots of decisions to make early on so that they're used to determining the costs and benefits of decisions, especially when it's cheap to make mistakes.
gallamine··on Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up
You are not correct. I've never seen an injected ad and I use it and Firefox exclusively.
gallamine··on Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?
I play a musical instrument to signal the end of the workday. Usually I'll come down from the office and start playing the guitar for my family before dinner and that's a great mental shift.
gallamine··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)
Please follow the posting format
gallamine··on The End of the Redis Adventure
Thank you for your work!
gallamine··on Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn how electricity works?
Hyperphysics presents a organized tree-like view of concepts, terminology and examples. It's easy to click around and start building up a mental model of how things relate: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html
gallamine··on Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
20% fee isn't the whole story - about 5% is the cost-of-fulfillment - website, phone support, CC processing, fraud protection, etc. The rest of the "fee" is variable marketing and promotions costs - higher search placement, "buy one get one" offerings to customers, etc. The calculus for the restaurants is whether they spend any marketing budget, and if they do, is it going to be junk-mail flyers or targeted advertising that they have some hope of tracking success with.
gallamine··on Zoom Acquires Keybase
Secure filesharing and chat, for starters. Secure digital wallets tied to identity. It was a wallet platform I'd actually be interested in.
gallamine··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)
FT contractors or will PT work?
gallamine··on How many jobs can be done at home? [pdf]
> Is there anyone out there with a good argument for why remote workers should be paid less?

There is more demand for remote jobs, therefore they pay less.

gallamine··on Meals on food delivery apps can be 90% more than if bought from the restaurant
The reasoning is that restaurants are using this money for advertising - either they pay to mail out fliers or they pay for listing in the online aggregator. It's a very similar model to paid ads in search engines.
gallamine··on Unofficial Apple Archive
This "easy pay" training video is quite the show https://www.applearchive.org/2006-feed/apple-internal-easy-p...
gallamine··on Education and Men without Work
Also not discussed is the impact of unlimited access to pornography for sexual gratification on the reduction in male desire to do things that traditionally would attract women.
gallamine··on Show HN: Opterview – An Interview Tool for DevOps
What's it running under the hood?
gallamine··on Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
That link doesn't seem to work, btw.
gallamine··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)
Grubhub | Data Science | Remote | Full Time

My team at Grubhub is looking to hire a data scientist / machine learning engineer to help with our delivery forecasting product. We’re responsible for generating forecasts for all of our regions orders. The job is open to remote and the rest of the team is all remote too: https://social.icims.com/viewjob/pt156994215518433cad

Here are slides from a recent presentation I did at PyColorado about some of the stuff we’re working on: https://www.slideshare.net/williamccox/dask-and-machine-lear...

gallamine··on Giving Up TV for a Month Changed My Brain
No, but if the title was instead "I gave up listening to [the top commercialized] music for a month and it changed my brain" I suspect it would receive a positive reaction.
gallamine··on Minnesota Will Pay Residents to Grow Bee-Friendly Lawns
Mosquitos are dangerous, painful and a huge nuisance for a lot of people.
gallamine··on What If All Your Slack Chats Were Leaked?
Keybase chat is very nice and I've switched to it for many things. Also has self-destruct feature for messages.
gallamine··on This Old House: The Rare Home-Improvement Show That Spotlights Skilled Workers
This Old House has a very active YouTube channel.
gallamine··on Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut in output
> they don't want to inconvenience their team

This is is why it's important for team members to explicitly encourage each other to take breaks and vacations. I've often told a coworker, "stop working! Take a long weekend!".

gallamine··on Everything you ever wanted to know about building a secure password reset (2012)
OSX Keychain has a "memorable" feature for password suggestion (e.g. getup3_gulag). 1Password has a "words" type of password (e.g. ancestor-dissent-rubdown). I suspect other password managers have similar. That's what I use in this situation.
gallamine··on Ask HN: Have you paid for the photos/headshots you use in professional setting?
I spoke at OSCON once. As part of the speaker package they did professional headshots. It was a great perk. I've used those extensively since - lots of other conferences ask for a headshot on their speaker list. I also use it on Linkedin.
gallamine··on Ask HN: Have you paid for the photos/headshots you use in professional setting?
As a remote worker, people with this attitude make it much harder to do my job - a photo helps build trust and trust makes good teams. Presumably you don't go into the office wearing a mask to hide your identity?
gallamine··on A Year-Long Undercover Plot to Blow Up Eve Online's Most Notorious Space Station
Do you consider it equivalent to reading fiction? I spent a lot of time on that.
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